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

But men of real learning also attacked me: Rondeletius, and Julius Scaliger; and Fuchsius, in the proem of his book, says that my work Medicinæ Contradictiones should be avoided like deadly poison.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)

It was blowing hard of a cold night, and the wind was peppered with sleet; a depressing proem to our unknown voyage.

From Hurricane Island by Watson, H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott)

At first they're but the unfledged proem, Or songless schedule of a poem; When from the shell they're hardly dry If some folks thrust them forth, must I?

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell