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Butler's action was approved, but Fremont's was hastily countermanded, and his successor, Halleck, saw things differently.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUCCESSOR
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successor
 n.  one who or that which succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  She will be my successor in this house.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
2  As her successor in that house, she regarded her with jealous abhorrence.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
3  That housekeeper left, if I recollect rightly, two years after he came; and another, whom I did not know, was her successor; she lives there still.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Butler's action was approved, but Fremont's was hastily countermanded, and his successor, Halleck, saw things differently.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
5  Less than a month after the weary Emancipator passed to his rest, his successor assigned Major-Gen.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
6  Frissell, the present Principal of the Hampton Institute, General Armstrong's successor.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
7  At last he arrived in Rome, where the Pope had just died, and there was great doubt among the cardinals as to whom they should appoint as his successor.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE THREE LANGUAGES
8  He saw in the young man his natural successor, and regretted that he had not a daughter, that he might have bound Edmond to him by a more secure alliance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
9  There were four little girls, and two little boys, besides the baby who might have been either, and the baby's next successor who was as yet neither.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
10  Peggotty had now removed here for good; and had let her own house to the successor of Mr. Barkis in the carrying business, who had paid her very well for the good-will, cart, and horse.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
11  The Pope is the successor of St. Peter, and represents the three divine powers; the rest-ORDINES INFERIORES-of the ecclesiastical hierarchy bless in the name of the holy archangels and angels.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
12  She had two successors: an Italian, Giacinta, and a German, Clara; both considered singularly handsome.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  Accordingly, they have a subaltern court paid to them by persons of the best rank; and sometimes by the force of dexterity and impudence, arrive, through several gradations, to be successors to their lord.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VI.
14  Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy's apprehensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
15  As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by considering the formidable letters which were received by himself and his successors.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
Example Sentence:
1  The former leader now has to watch his successor unpicking much of what he strived so hard to achieve.
2  She is widely regarded as the current leader's natural successor.
3  The chief executive will set in train the process of finding a successor.
4  Our defeat may be the preface to our successor's victory.
5  Their latest disc is a worthy successor to their popular debut album.
6  Traditionally, the president designates his or her successor.
7  The real-estate investment trust said the search for a successor is already underway, and will include both internal and external candidates.
8  The Pakistani government Saturday accused the U.S. of sabotaging peace talks with domestic Taliban fighters by killing their leader in a drone strike, as the militants began the process of choosing a successor.