proem

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

In the proem to the remarkable story you have been reciting, you have admitted that there was one man toward whom your soul felt bitter.

From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph

From Goethe he would have selected the noble proem to Faust: Ihr naht Euch wieder, schwankende Gestalten, for there was a note among his papers to that effect.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

With supreme indifference to the classic Arabic proem, he begins by saying that his Book is neither a Memoir nor an Autobiography, neither a Journal nor a Confession.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani