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ONE AFTER ANOTHER
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Following one another in quick succession
Synonyms:
one after another; one after the other
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Context examples:
Then he fell upon them with the stick and beat them one after another, crying, “There, you idle vagabonds, you have got what you deserve; are you satisfied now!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I looked at my companions, one after another, and saw from their flushed faces and damp brows that they were enduring equal torture.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
How many children Sophy could have taken care of in her time, I can't imagine; but she seemed to be famous for knowing every sort of song that ever was addressed to a child in the English tongue; and she sang dozens to order with the clearest little voice in the world, one after another (every sister issuing directions for a different tune, and the Beauty generally striking in last), so that I was quite fascinated.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after another, into the pit and to dig with their fingers, throwing the boards aside as they did so.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The soldier saw them going down through the trap-door one after another, the eldest leading the way; and thinking he had no time to lose, he jumped up, put on the cloak which the old woman had given him, and followed them; but in the middle of the stairs he trod on the gown of the youngest princess, and she cried out to her sisters, All is not right; someone took hold of my gown.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
She was soon my child-wife indeed; sitting down on the floor outside the Chinese House, ringing all the little bells one after another, to punish Jip for his recent bad behaviour; while Jip lay blinking in the doorway with his head out, even too lazy to be teased.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Well, thus equipped, we all set out—even the fellow with the broken head, who should certainly have kept in shadow—and straggled, one after another, to the beach, where the two gigs awaited us.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Then the kid had to run home and fetch scissors, and a needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monster’s stomach, and hardly had she made one cut, than one little kid thrust its head out, and when she had cut farther, all six sprang out one after another, and were all still alive, and had suffered no injury whatever, for in his greediness the monster had swallowed them down whole.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I say nothing of the look he conferred on me, as he stood eyeing us, one after another; for I had always understood that he hated me, and I remembered the marks of my hand upon his cheek.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Well now, look here, I'll answer these four p'ints; one after another I'll answer 'em. I made a hash o' this cruise, did I?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
