Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "opeenvolgend" is: op 'n opeenvolgende wyse; in 'n volgorde of in opeenvolgende volgorde, sonder onderbreking of onderbreking.
In an instant he had cleared every obstacle away, and he saw successively the lock, placed between two padlocks, and the two handles at each end, all carved as things were carved at that epoch, when art rendered the commonest metals precious.
Then, when he believed he had a sufficient acquaintance with the place, he divided his company into three bodies, which were to enter successively, keeping up a sustained fire in all directions.
One, with a fan and some bits of paper, performed the graceful trick of the butterflies and the flowers another traced in the air, with the odorous smoke of his pipe, a series of blue words, which composed a compliment to the audience while a third juggled with some lighted candles, which he extinguished successively as they passed his lips, and relit again without interrupting for an instant his juggling.
But there was no time the explosion thundered, earth gaped, the smoke which hurled through the clefts obscured the sky the sea flowed back as though driven by the blast of flame which darted from the grotto as if from the jaws of some gigantic fiery chimera the reflux took the bark out twenty toises the solid rocks cracked to their base, and separated like blocks beneath the operation of the wedge a portion of the vault was carried up towards heaven, as if it had been built of cardboard the green and blue and topaz conflagration and black lava of liquefactions clashed and combated an instant beneath a majestic dome of smoke then oscillated, declined, and fell successively the mighty monoliths of rock which the violence of the explosion had not been able to uproot from the bed of ages they bowed to each other like grave and stiff old men, then prostrating themselves, lay down forever in their dusty tomb.
The opinion of all the commercial men was that, under the reverses which had successively weighed down Morrel, it was impossible for him to remain solvent.
Successively he threw away his hat, his coat, which embarrassed him, and then the sheath of his sword, which got between his legs as he was running.
Franz took it with a nervous trembling, and repeated the letters of the alphabet successively, until he came to M.
I was surgeon successively in two ships, and made several voyages, for six years, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune.
That age will be rich indeed when those relics which we call Classics, and the still older and more than classic but even less known Scriptures of the nations, shall have still further accumulated, when the Vaticans shall be filled with Vedas and Zendavestas and Bibles, with Homers and Dantes and Shakespeares, and all the centuries to come shall have successively deposited their trophies in the forum of the world.
With these he lived successively a week at a time, thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief.
