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It seems that the Kandyans and we reciprocally misunderstood the ranks, orders, precedencies, titular distinctions, and external honours attached to them in our several nations.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

This poor Congress—-let the reader fancy it—spent two years in "arguments about precedencies," in mere beatings of the air; could not get seated at all, but wandered among the chairs, till "February, 1724."

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas