prelusive
Example Sentences
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During an entire generation they furnished the arena for the prelusive strife of that war.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
At Raritan and New Brunswick, in New Jersey, and elsewhere, there had been prelusive gleams of dawn.
From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
In Break, Break, Break, we hear a note prelusive to In Memoriam, much of which was already composed.
From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew
What makes the matter worse is, that this happened at the very opening of the diet, and whilst the grand prelusive symphony of the whole hidden people was in full burst.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
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 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
