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Definition of Ensues
1. ensue [v] - See also: ensue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ensues
Literary usage of Ensues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries Upon Martial Law: With Special Reference to Its Regulation and by William Francis Finlason, Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1867)
"... or even if it be the natural result of actual incitements or general directions;
a man being held liable for all that ensues in the execution of an act ..."
2. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"CHAPTER V SHARP WORDS ARE SPOKEN AND A CRISIS ensues When Yeobright was not with
Eustacia he was sitting slavishly over his books; when he was not reading ..."
3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1854)
"... proposing, by way of Amendment, the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry—A
debate ensues, in which the Earls of Roden, Desart, Shaftesbury, and Derby, ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... respiration has become impossible, owing to the inter- ' ruption of circulation
in the nervous centres, that death ensues from paralysis of the heart. ..."
5. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"... and its effect is that, when a change of the required character occurs in the
climatic conditions, a spontaneous change in the way of growth ensues.2 ..."
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