prelusive

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There was a fine note in Mr. Allen's earliest work; a prelusive note with the quality of the flute....

From James Lane Allen: A Sketch of his Life and Work by Unknown

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 Sampson, George

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 Hogg, James

In Break, Break, Break, we hear a note prelusive to In Memoriam, much of which was already composed.

From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew

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 James, Henry