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

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

I will not trespass on your time by any proem.

From Romola by Eliot, George

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