1 She will be my successor in this house.
2 As her successor in that house, she regarded her with jealous abhorrence.
3 That housekeeper left, if I recollect rightly, two years after he came; and another, whom I did not know, was her successor; she lives there still.
4 Butler's action was approved, but Fremont's was hastily countermanded, and his successor, Halleck, saw things differently.
5 Less than a month after the weary Emancipator passed to his rest, his successor assigned Major-Gen.
6 Frissell, the present Principal of the Hampton Institute, General Armstrong's successor.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VII. 7 At last he arrived in Rome, where the Pope had just died, and there was great doubt among the cardinals as to whom they should appoint as his successor.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE THREE LANGUAGES 8 He saw in the young man his natural successor, and regretted that he had not a daughter, that he might have bound Edmond to him by a more secure alliance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 9 There were four little girls, and two little boys, besides the baby who might have been either, and the baby's next successor who was as yet neither.
10 Peggotty had now removed here for good; and had let her own house to the successor of Mr. Barkis in the carrying business, who had paid her very well for the good-will, cart, and horse.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 11 The Pope is the successor of St. Peter, and represents the three divine powers; the rest-ORDINES INFERIORES-of the ecclesiastical hierarchy bless in the name of the holy archangels and angels.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS 12 She had two successors: an Italian, Giacinta, and a German, Clara; both considered singularly handsome.
13 Accordingly, they have a subaltern court paid to them by persons of the best rank; and sometimes by the force of dexterity and impudence, arrive, through several gradations, to be successors to their lord.
14 Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy's apprehensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.
15 As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by considering the formidable letters which were received by himself and his successors.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS