proem

Example Sentences

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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 poems were a grand proem to the novels.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

Students of religious mystic thought can scarce do better than turn to such a tale by way of proem to more elaborate research.

From Dreams and Dream Stories by Kingsford, Anna Bonus

Perhaps that proem may yet be recovered as good salvage from the waters of oblivion, which sooner or later overwhelm all magazines.

From Maxims and Reflections by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von