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/sˈikwəl/ Listen

noun

Sequel n.

That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history. "O, let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before."

Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.

Conclusion; inference. (R.)

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... first part of my story was dashed by the sequel. Of course, she said, it must come right in the end, since Monica and I understood each other at last. But just for the moment everything seemed difficult. The Duke was sure now that I was Casa Triana, and not Cristobal O'Donnel. He would almost ...

— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... tracked Pierre (or Raymond Pinceau as they called him, saying it was his true name) to Bontet's stable, on the matter of the previous attempt on the necklace and the death of Lafleur, and on no other, and did not think to hear such a sequel as ...

— The Indiscretion of the Duchess • Anthony Hope

... reveries. He would have willingly concealed the affair; but he bawled out in the first transport of his fear, and, running into the house, exposed his back and his sconce to the whole family; so that there was no denying it in the sequel. It is now the common discourse of the country, that this appearance and behaviour of the old man's spirit, portends some great calamity to the family, and the good-woman has actually taken to ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... enforced? were they ever enforced? The same writer pretends that they were for "several years;" but the sequel proves that they were not. The reason which he assigns for their execution—that for a certain time after that Parliament there was peace in the island—leads us to believe the contrary; for if, as he himself justly remarks before, the intention of the legislators was to create a perpetual ...

— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

... some parts of it are assuredly wrong; but, respecting anatomy, it seems to me to settle the question indisputably, more especially as being written by a master of the science. I quote two passages, and must refer the reader to the sequel. ...

— The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) • John Ruskin

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