preluding

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There is no preluding, there are no intricate harmonies: the key-note is struck in the opening chord, and the theme is kept conspicuously in view throughout all the modulations.

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  • There is no preluding, there are no intricate harmonies: the key-note is struck in the opening chord, and the theme is kept conspicuously in view throughout all the modulations. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866
  • It would lead us far away from our purpose to inquire whether that Angel of the Lord is an earlier manifestation of the eternal Son, who afterwards became flesh--a kind of preluding or rehearsing of the Incarnation. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII
  • So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self I was the attendant or page of Queequeg, while busy at the mat. —  Moby Dick, or, the whale
  • So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of revelry lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self I was the attendant or page of Queequeg, while busy at the mat. —  Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
  • A short hush of preluding ceremonies passed. —  Vittoria — Volume 2
 

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