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
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
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 James Russell Lowell
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
