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But through some evil chance Eurystheus obtained the precedency, and the son of Zeus was compelled to serve him.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
Huish sat there preening his sinister vanity, glorying in his precedency in evil; and the villainous courage and readiness of the creature shone out of him like a candle from a lantern.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
Age the sole foundation of rank and precedency among, ib.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
The greatest age demands respect and precedency; and, as Venovali is the oldest, we will dispatch him first.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
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
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 Carlyle, Thomas
