precedency
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One day there happened some words between the Ant and the Fly about precedency, and the point was argued with great warmth and eagerness on both sides.
From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop
Woman is the blood-royal of life; let there be slight degrees of precedency among them, but let them all be sacred.
From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes
Flintyheart was second, while the others were arranged by some rule of precedency that was known to themselves.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
He that entered the church first had the precedency of officiating, the other keeping silence until the congregation received the Benediction after sermon.’
From East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
He granted them their fast, but they would now grant no return; for now they presented “a Declaration” to the king, that tonnage and poundage must give precedency to religion!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
This poor Congress—-let the reader fancy it—spent two years in "arguments about precedencies," in mere beatings of the air; could not get seated at all, but wandered among the chairs, till "February, 1724."
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle
It seems that the Kandyans and we reciprocally misunderstood the ranks, orders, precedencies, titular distinctions, and external honours attached to them in our several nations.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
