SEQUENT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Sequent

... very moral of a scene that flashed into vividness one day when the four happened to meet without company in the drawing-room and Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted. The connexion required that while she almost cradled the child in her arms Ida should speak of her as hideously, as fatally estranged, and should rail at Sir Claude as the cruel author of the outrage. "He has taken you FROM me," she cried; ...

— What Maisie Knew • Henry James

... has some Hand made us all, Baptized us all in one great sequent plan, Where deep to ever vaster deep may call, And all their large ...

— The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons - A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis • Ellice Hopkins