proem
Example Sentences
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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
Ah me!" sounds the note of the proem to the second series, scornful and sad:— "Ah me!
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
And you spoke of Io 'in the proem.'
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning
In fact, the reign of George 1. was little more than the proem to the history of England Under the House of Brunswick.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
