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
For us in England it was, so to speak, discovered by Professor Huxley, who many years ago gave a translation of it as a proem to a scientific periodical.
From Maxims and Reflections by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I sent you the proem, which you published as a preface to the "Froissart Ballads."
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
I'm afraid you expect a beautiful POEM, Though I make a long and tedious proem, But great and dreadful are my fears, No poem of mine will put you in TEARS.
From Abbeychurch by Charlotte Mary Yonge
