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proem

How to use proem in a sentence

After writing these words I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel, and he expressed great delight in them.

In the proem to this idyl I seem to see two shadowy figures passing up and down over a lonesome land.

Machiavelli lays much stress upon this in the Proem to his Istorie Fiorentine.

The opening—the proem I believe he calls it—is very beautiful.

JANE AUSTEN, HER LIFE AND LETTERSWILLIAM AUSTEN-LEIGH AND RICHARD ARTHUR AUSTEN-LEIGH

Proem, printed in two of his books, is certainly the best thing he has done hitherto.

Lysias usually adheres to a simple four-fold division—proem, narrative, proof, epilogue.

If you choose to publish it, you may, stating why, and with such explanatory proem as you please.

The gorgeous proem, or introduction to the panorama, was then for the first time disclosed to the public.

ROUND THE BLOCKJOHN BELL BOUTON

Pampinea was the eldest (Proem), and by inference Elisa the youngest.

See his own acknowledgment in the Proem to the poems of 1842.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985