proem

• Balaustion's Adventure was, as the charming dedication tells us, the most delightful of May-month amusements; but in the splendid proem which enshrines the story of Herakles and Alkestis, we still feel the thrill of the deadly conflict; the agony of France may be partly divined in the agony of Athens. —  Robert Browning
• By way of proem, take the following not injudicious remarks The benignant efficacies of Concealment,' cries our Professor, 'who shall speak or sing? —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
• Caxton was himself the translator of twenty-two of the one hundred books which he printed and it was therefore not strange that Trevisa's English should have been in his hands, as the proem states, "a lytel embelysshed fro tholde makyng." —  Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
• The gorgeous proem, or introduction to the panorama, was then for the first time disclosed to the public. —  Round the Block
• There is a proem, as it is termed, supposed to be written by Jedediah Cleishbotham, the schoolmaster and parish clerk of the village of Gandercleugh, in which we are given to understand that these Tales were compiled by his deceased usher, Mr. Peter Pattieson, from the narratives or conversations of such travellers as frequented the Wallace Inn, in that village. —  Famous Reviews

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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