prelusive

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The lights seemed dim, my voice sounded far away, there was a tumult in my senses that was prelusive of fainting.

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In the notice of so memorable a man, even the briefest prelusive flourish seems uncalled for; and so indeed it would be, if by such means it were meant simply to justify the undertaking.

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O that rare Music is ours, is ours—prelusive air Caught from the Judgment music high and severe.

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Brad and Jont had begun to tune their fiddles, and the first prelusive snapping of strings at once awakened Heman's nerves to a pleasant tingling; he was excited at the nearness of the coming joy.

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Even the prelusive delicacies of the present writer—the curt "Astræan allusion"—would be thought pedantic, and out of date, in these days.

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