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In all public proceedings of the Society, written speeches should be preferred from the young, because such speeches admit of preconsidered brevity, consecutiveness, and purpose, and exist for reference.

From The Principles Of Secularism by Holyoake, George Jacob

The recital really was interesting and entirely outside the priggishness of Science, but it was marred in consecutiveness and simplicity by Mrs. Rossiter's interruptions.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir

The passages quoted are scattered at intervals through the volume, so that all consecutiveness and coherence are lost.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

A curious feature, too, of that strange life was its lack of consecutiveness.

From Simon Called Peter by Keable, Robert

Gradually, however, by letting her talk in her own breathless way, and in an odd mixture of English, French, German, and Italian, she was able to put together the facts into a kind of consecutiveness.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton