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precede

[pri-seed] / prɪˈsid /


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"Precede me, Hector," she said with consummate dignity, "to M. le Comte's audience chamber."

From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Abel, I'm sick at heart; but it will pass; Precede me, brother—I will follow shortly.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Dreaming, blindfold led By visionary hand, did soul’s advance Precede my body’s, gain inheritance Of fact by fancy...?”

From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Whiting, Lilian

Precede them with prayer; for only in as much as you do so, have you a right to expect a blessing from them.

From A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part by Müller, George

These in turn Precede the vowel they refer to.

From Poems by Seeger, Alan




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