Example Sentences

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Gnosticism has supervened upon the rudimental childhood of spiritual truth.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah

Civil war has supervened, the slaves are being freed, sugar is no longer a bonanza, and the rich man of yesterday is the bankrupt of to-day.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Hubbard, I am informed, is suffering from an attack of stomach poisoning, which has supervened during the night.

From The Grand Babylon Hotel by Bennett, Arnold

The operator generally visits the infant in the afternoon of the operation, and carefully inspects the dressings, to see that no hæmorrhage has supervened.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles

Erysipelas has supervened upon the injury; and the object is to avoid a gathering, and to stay the erysipelas where it is.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John