cessor

WELLINGTON WEBBWebb, who wears tennis shoes even with suits, took a laughingstock of an airport from his prede - cessor and helped get it open.

City Slickers 2008

A pretty opinion he would have of the state of my affairs if I were to send him such a ‘cessor as you; and as for your lending me money, don’t think I was ever fool enough to suppose either that you had any, or if you had that you would be fool enough to lend me any.

Lavengro 2004

His progress was notably slower than that of his prede-cessor.

The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

It was a bad idea; like his own teacher he would train his own suc-cessor.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Each of the yugas differs from its prede - cessor much as the Ages of Hesiod did, in that wicked - ness and general evil grow greater.

CYCLES GEORGE BOAS 1968

It is noteworthy though, that the second century B.C., as if to almost show that it was not entirely down and out, produced the astronomer Hipparchus, famed dis - coverer of the precession of the equinoxes; and that the second century A.D., as if to lay claim to being indeed a “good” century, brought forth his great “suc - cessor” Claudius Ptolemy, author of the majestic

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

At this mo - ment there came into existence a violent anti-Platonic literature which made Plato appear as the true prede - cessor of the detestable Rousseau.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968

Like his prede - cessor, Babbitt sought too neat a compartmentalization not only of art forms but of genre.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN GRAHAM 1968

Bruno may also be mentioned as a supporter and suc - cessor of Nicholas of Cusa; his works abound in Neo -

Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

In theology, as in so much of its life, the twentieth century has been in sharp revolt against its prede - cessor — as the nineteenth was against the eighteenth.

IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800 LANGDON GILKEY 1968