Meanings of successive hours in English

Each keeper's duty was to watch for three successive hours in the lantern.

Rust heard the clock, as its iron tongue struck the successive hours from his life.

He began, at successive hours of the day, one after another, to lower his crimson blinds.

Days passed by without a brawl, and Bland's valley saw more successive hours of peace than ever before.

We pulled that day for eleven successive hours, in order to avoid a tribe of natives who followed us.

A thousand mishaps would occur in trying to follow a single organism through all the changes of successive hours to the end.

For four-and-twenty successive hours Lady Anne Newcome was perfectly in raptures with her new lodgings, and every person and thing which they contained.

The great question of the march upon Moscow produced a discussion which lasted during eight successive hours, and at which only Berthier was present.