"Seriatim" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... none of them appear inclined to solve; and I do not wonder at this, as the attempt, in my own case, in one or two instances, has involved days of study and references to dozens of medical and other works with but a meagre result. However, to take them seriatim, we can assume, I think, with some show of evidence, that the Ethiopian stone, mentioned as being used to make the first incision in the corpse, might have been a piece of obsidian or basalt, but most probably was merely an ordinary sharp flint ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne
... general longer than that of the House of Representatives. The latter seldom remain in office longer than a year; the former usually sit two or three years. By granting to the senators the privilege of being chosen for several years, and being renewed seriatim, the law takes care to preserve in the legislative body a nucleus of men already accustomed to public business, and capable of exercising a salutary influence upon the ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville
... did of cold salt pork and bread, with some splendid hot cocoa, that was more like chocolate, and such as he had never tasted before, we were kept hard at it till the 'assembly' was bugled out before dinner—going through the details of 'bag and hammock drill' seriatim, from the initiatory stage of plaiting the ends of the 'nettles' to lashing it up with the ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... usually reply to their opponent's points in the order in which they were presented—seriatim. This is ...
— The Art of Lecturing - Revised Edition • Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis |
