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

With supreme indifference to the classic Arabic proem, he begins by saying that his Book is neither a Memoir nor an Autobiography, neither a Journal nor a Confession.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

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 Cunningham, Peter

If correctly given the centre letters of the lights will give the proem.

From Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various