There is no precedency in a French assembly except amongst the Military.

In that of the Royalists, they dispute for precedency, and amuse themselves.

None jostle with him for the wall, or pick quarrels for precedency.

In a review of Italian literature, Dante has a double claim to precedency.

He speaks most of the precedency of age, and protests fortune the greatest virtue.

These are the methods that would give the village paint-grinder precedency above genius itself.

Crillon, disregarding all precedency, sprang from his table and hurried first to the threshold.

There was no disputing a precedency which he had risen from his death-bed to vindicate.

All nations and religions have precedency, in the royal favor, over the children of the Patriarchs.

Being commissioned on the same day as colonels of the new regiments, they quarrelled about precedency.

This produced a universal uproar-eachfighting for precedency, and thoroughly determined not to be the last.

We will not take upon ourselves the invidious office of settling precedency between two such writers.

He was treated as an officer of the highest rank, and awarded the first place in precedency.

The order of precedency in Caroline's confidential communications was approved of even by all the parties concerned.

Respecting ceremonies and ordinances, the kingdom of love must have the precedency and govern, and not tyranny.

And if he were, where are the Scripture proofs that he had precedency over the other apostles?