Sentence examples for precedency from inspiring English sources

But in this case expressly, and in some others by implication, as we have seen in the case of pilotage, a concurrent jurisdiction is contemplated, that of [p393] the State, however, being subordinate to that of the United States, whereby all question of precedency is eliminated.

-JONATHAN SWIFT Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.