At that time they seem to feed only a few minutes consecutively, and then, as if seized with an uncontrollable impulse, rush up into the air to deliver a brief song, descend, and repeat the process for hours.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
She did not think these things out consecutively in her mind, but she knew that the dark room downstairs, the dark passages, the stillness and silence of it all frightened her, and that it was always out of these things that her aunts rose.
"The Golden Scarecrow"
Hugh Walpole
Her father's friend, her own protector-in that light she regarded Cranley, when she was well enough to think consecutively.
"The Mark Of Cain"
Andrew Lang