proem
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After a moment or two, I said, “Well, some died in the war, and, if you read the proem carefully, you’ll recall that others died ‘through their own recklessness.’
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017
With this bold proem, George R. Barnes, director of BBC's "Third Program,"*launched one of the boldest ventures in the history of broadcasting.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first is, that it is no part of the present design, as may be seen in the proem of this little book.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 by Various
The opening—the proem I believe he calls it—is very beautiful.
From Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh
It is supposed to have consisted at least of two books, of which we have but the proem of the first, and a small portion of the second.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
