preparative

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But neither can I bear, it seems, the preparatives to matrimony, the fine clothes, the compliments, the busy novelty, as he calls it, the new equipages, and so forth.

From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel

Cold meat and ale were excellent preparatives for what might be required of him; for a tendency to collapse in a certain region, called by courtesy the chest, is not favourable to deeds of valour.

From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George

I rose to assist in the preparatives but Susie scorned my aid.

From Sweetapple Cove by Van Schaick, George

If discontent and misery are preparatives for liberty—and they are—so strange and unlike ours are the ways of God—I was likely enough to find them there.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas

Such was one of El Zagal's preparatives for the expected invasion of the Christian king, exciting the warlike spirit of his people, and gaining for himself a transient popularity.

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington