Before the erection of the Royal African company, there had been three other joint-stock companies successively established, one after another, for the African trade.
I leaned over the table; I laid my finger successively upon every letter; and without a pause, without one moment's hesitation, I read off the whole sentence aloud.
Consider what extraordinary kindness of fate must tend upon one, that not a care, not a preoccupation, should interfere with his contemplative thought for five or six days successively!
The mind is 'a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, slide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.
Admittedly, there are cases that help-givers are successively reported to be falsely identified as offenders, which makes common people become more risk-conscious and unwilling to offer their help.
Five daughters successively entered the world, but yet the son was to come; and Mrs. Bennet, for many years after Lydia's birth, had been certain that he would.
Qieyang was given the gold medal of women's 20km race walk at 2012 London Olympic Games after the original top two athletes had been stripped of their medals for doping successively.