prelusive
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We hope to find that the last essay, upon the "Moral Ideal," is prelusive to another effort in this direction.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
I have described the gorgeousness of my expectations in those early days of my prelusive acquaintance with German literature.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg
At that hour my faith was weak, and I could not help remembering how, when I first crossed this unhappy threshold, my heart sighed heavily, and my very steps were reluctant and prelusive of sorrow.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
In Break, Break, Break, we hear a note prelusive to In Memoriam, much of which was already composed.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
The last words were murmured as if to himself rather than to us, and he accompanied them abstractedly with tentative, prelusive chords, which gradually grew into the most strangely moving music I have ever heard.
From A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by George Sampson
