supervene

Example Sentences

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We trusted, therefore, that extremely lenient legislation would supervene, upon its very opposite.

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

The statute-book was rent in pieces; anarchy threatened to supervene; England prepared to take possession again.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

And she slowly waved her parasol round the horizon as though defying a "feature" to supervene from any point of the compass.

From Mariquita A Novel by Ayscough, John

Downstairs he told Colonel Mandeville: "He may pull through if meningitis does not supervene."

From A Soldier's Son by Butler, Maude M.

According to Murchison, paralysis does not supervene until several weeks after the commencement of convalescence.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various