precedency

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Population gathered around them—their precedency availed them nothing—they became nuisances, by the force of circumstances.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

For such an obligation could proceed neither from titles of honour, nor from precedency.

From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Allies, Thomas W.

If it had been a trumpery little baronetcy," said Minnie, strong in her new honours, "that would have been quite a different matter; but why should one give up one's precedency, and all that?

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Who that hears them can, without perverting the natural force of words, or disregarding the laws of interpretation, imagine anything merely honorary, or figure to himself Peter with a mere grant of precedency?

From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Allies, Thomas W.

Few have even a moderate idea of the amazement of my hero, when he saw the critic set virtue and vice at once at a round table, without any quarrel for precedency.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich