prelusive
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At Raritan and New Brunswick, in New Jersey, and elsewhere, there had been prelusive gleams of dawn.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
Loke was the cause of the former prelusive war.
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
Every one remembers his young, tentative, prelusive illustrations to Herrick, in which there are the prettiest glimpses, guesses and foreknowledge of the effects he was to make completely his own.
From Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James
And afterward, to make amends, What if all three of us contribute each A line to that prelusive fragment,—help The embarrassed bard who broke out to break down Dumbfoundered at such unforeseen success?
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
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
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