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  • Prologue.†   (source)
  • Prologue — 2007†   (source)
  • JURASSIC PARK Prologue: The Bite of the Raptor The tropical rain fell in drenching sheets, hammering the corrugated roof of the clinic building, roaring down the metal gutters, splashing on the ground in a torrent.†   (source)
  • The new voice spoke without rushing and exclaiming, and when it said, "You're a fool, Sukkhi," which it did quite often, a laugh prologued the indictment.†   (source)
  • Prologue†   (source)
  • Lola was pacing the floorboards, one hand to her brow as she skimmed through the first pages of the play, muttering the lines from the prologue.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE†   (source)
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  • PROLOGUE The Woman in the Photograph There's a photo on my wall of a woman I've never met, its left corner torn and patched together with tape.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — LONDON, 1979.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE How does one describe Artemis Fowl?†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE.†   (source)
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  • PROLOGUE: SHADE OF FEAR Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — Evil in the Crosshairs†   (source)
  • Prologue.†   (source)
  • LONE SURVIVOR ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ Prologue.†   (source)
  • Maybe he sees it now as a prologue to these tapes.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — Aboard the Olympic — 1912†   (source)
  • So a whole Babel of computer languages has been created for programmers: FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, LISP, Pascal, C, PROLOG, FORTH.†   (source)
  • The darkness had prologued the pain and the storm-cloud; he began to remember what had prologued the darkness as she told him what had happened to him.†   (source)
  • Prologue: July 1956.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — A Silence of Three Parts†   (source)
  • Prologue — SMOKE AND DIAMONDS.†   (source)
  • Prologue — Angels at Arby's.†   (source)
  • Prologue†   (source)
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  • PROLOGUE A Friday in November It happened every year, was almost a ritual.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — LOIRE VALLEY, FRANCE — NOVEMBER 1565†   (source)
  • STUBB in Moby Dick PROLOGUE First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.†   (source)
  • Prologue.†   (source)
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  • When the time comes to perform the act, I will do it without any prelude or prologue, and may simply walk up River Road one afternoon, arrive at Brimmler's Bridge, calmly climb the parapet or whatever it's called, and let myself plummet to the riverbed below.†   (source)
  • Don DeLillo — Underworld PROLOGUE.†   (source)
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  • PROLOGUE This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history.†   (source)
  • Prologue It was a very distinct sound, the quiet scraping of steel on stone, that first told him that his visitors had arrived, followed by a strange sort of tapping and the shuffling of feet.†   (source)
  • Prologue – INSPECTOR LINDSAY BOXER†   (source)
  • All of it, at this instant, is meaningless prologue.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE -- The Coming.†   (source)
  • —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass PROLOGUE: 1996 June In the beginning, I believed in second chances.†   (source)
  • ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ Prologue.†   (source)
  • Prologue.†   (source)
  • What's past is prologue.†   (source)
  • Prologue — Redbirds.†   (source)
  • –May Swenson PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • BILL O'REILLY May 2012 Long Island, New York    Prologue JANUARY 20, 1961 WASHINGTON, D.C. 12:51 P.M. The man with fewer than three years to live has his left hand on the Bible.†   (source)
  • Prologue.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes —— PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • If you tell a secret about a friend, other people want to hear all of it, prologue to epilogue.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE†   (source)
  • Prologue — HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE: SOFIA†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — BORN AND "CORN" BRED†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE†   (source)
  • The previous February, during my first few days at the University Residence Club, before starting work at McGraw-Hill, I had written a dozen pages of what I planned to be the prologue of the novel—a description of a ride on a railroad train to the small Virginia city which was to provide the book's locale.†   (source)
  • Prologue.†   (source)
  • If a King or a Cardinal had done the prologue he'd have had the right materials.†   (source)
  • Suffering had most definitely come, and if they could blame the Jews as a warning or prologue, they should have blamed the Führer and his quest for Russia as the actual cause—for when Himmel Street woke later in July, a returned soldier was discovered to be dead.   (source)
    prologue = something that precedes a more important event
  • Prologue:  When I was seventeen, my life changed forever.†   (source)
  • C#Prologue Prologue House of the Temple 8:33 P.M. The secret is how to die.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE P hysicist Leonardo Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own.†   (source)
  • The silence into which Briony read the prologue was tense.†   (source)
  • Nora Roberts - Summer Pleasures Second Nature … Prologue.†   (source)
  • Prologue Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change?†   (source)
  • Prologue Where does a story truly begin?†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE Simon stood and stared numbly at the front door of his house.†   (source)
  • Maximum Ride Book Three - Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports -- James Patterson Prologue.†   (source)
  • Giannini had planned her visit to Göteborg as a brisk, necessary prologue to long-term work.†   (source)
  • That old hands-on-his-knees move always was a prologue to some decision, it seemed.†   (source)
  • That was the prologue, I think.†   (source)
  • Prologue The estimate of the possible weight of HeLa cells comes from Leonard Hayflick, who calculated the greatest possible weight potential of a normal human cell strain as 20 million metric tons and says HeLa's potential would be "infinitely greater" since it's not bound by the Hayflick limit.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • — Todd Burpo In the prologue, Todd says he was "astonished into speechlessness" when Colton first told him about going to heaven.†   (source)
  • And for the first time since emerging from the total blackness which had prologued the haze, he had a thought which existed apart from whatever his current situation was.†   (source)
  • I watched her fall convincingly into poverty and despair, once abandoned by the wicked count—who was the prologue speaker in his black cloak.†   (source)
  • The prologue rose to its reasonable climax: For that fortuitous girl the sweet day dawned To wed her gorgeous prince.†   (source)
  • She took the play from Lola and said in a voice that was constricted and more high-pitched than usual, "If you're Arabella, then I'll be the director, thank you very much, and I'll read the prologue."†   (source)
  • At some moments chilling, at others desperately sad, the play told a tale of the heart whose message, conveyed in a rhyming prologue, was that love which did not build a foundation on good sense was doomed.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE†   (source)
  • They were another week before they reached the end of the beginning-for the gunslinger, a twisted prologue of twelve years, from the final crash of his native place and the gathering of the other three.†   (source)
  • By the end, the prologue had run to a hundred pages and the main suspects hadn't even arrived on the scene yet.†   (source)
  • In God 'tis glory: And when men aspire,
    'tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
    —John Dryden "Absalom and Achitophel"
    PROLOGUE: FALL LIKE RAIN†   (source)
  • Prologue†   (source)
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  • Max PROLOGUE.†   (source)
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  • BILL O'REILLY April 3, 2011 Long Island, New York PROLOGUE — SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1865 WASHINGTON, D.C.†   (source)
  • In the case of Carrie White, the only witness to any possible prologue to the final climactic events was Margaret White, and she, of course is dead Henry Grayle, principal of Ewen High School, had been expecting him all week, but Chris Hargensen's father didn't show up until Friday-the day after Chris had skipped her detention period with the formidable Miss Desjardin.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE The bottle was dropped overboard on a warm summer evening, a few hours before the rain began to fall.†   (source)
  • Prologue.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE†   (source)
  • Prologue Christmas Eve 1998 Exactly forty days after she'd last held the hand of her husband, Julie Barenson sat looking through her window toward the quiet streets of Swansboro.†   (source)
  • Prologue Subsection 3 — The Hero and the God.†   (source)
  • Prologue Subsection 2 — Tragedy and Comedy.†   (source)
  • Prologue Subsection 1 — Myth and Dream.†   (source)
  • Prologue Subsection 4 — The World Navel.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — The Monomyth.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE: AT ROME One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.†   (source)
  • Prologue — Brideshead Revisited†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • This prologue pleased him, and Blachevelle fell in love.†   (source)
  • Only I don't forget that you have not had the like prologue about me."†   (source)
  • Alas! my dear reader, it is Pierre Gringoire and his prologue.†   (source)
  • The unhappy prologue stopped short for the second time.†   (source)
  • It appeared that the narrative he had promised to read us really required for a proper intelligence a few words of prologue.†   (source)
  • Prologue -- IN WHICH THE AUTHOR OF THIS SINGULAR WORK INFORMS THE READER HOW HE ACQUIRED THE CERTAINTY THAT THE OPERA GHOST REALLY EXISTED.†   (source)
  • Those thirty minutes can be regarded as a prologue to the full hour from three till four and that takes care of them.†   (source)
  • The four personages, after having reaped a rich reward of applause for their reverences, began, in the midst of profound silence, a prologue, which we gladly spare the reader.†   (source)
  • It is a sort of prologue to the play, a motto to the chapter; and will be soon followed by matter-of-fact prose.†   (source)
  • The fire soon flared up the chimney, giving the room an appearance of comfort that was doubled by contrast with the drumming of the storm without, which snapped at the window-panes and breathed into the chimney strange low utterances that seemed to be the prologue to some tragedy.†   (source)
  • [Illustration] [Illustration] PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN THE LORD THE HEAVENLY HOST Afterwards MEPHISTOPHELES (The THREE ARCHANGELS come forward.†   (source)
  • From the moment of the cardinal's entrance, Gringoire had never ceased to tremble for the safety of his prologue.†   (source)
  • The reader has, probably, not forgotten the impudent beggar who had been clinging fast to the fringes of the cardinal's gallery ever since the beginning of the prologue.†   (source)
  • Quite the contrary; our poet had too much good sense and too threadbare a coat, not to attach particular importance to having the numerous allusions in his prologue, and, in particular, the glorification of the dauphin, son of the Lion of France, fall upon the most eminent ear.†   (source)
  • The amiable applause which had greeted the beginning of his prologue was still echoing in his bosom, and he was completely absorbed in that species of ecstatic contemplation with which an author beholds his ideas fall, one by one, from the mouth of the actor into the vast silence of the audience.†   (source)
  • In the matter of love, as in all other affairs, he willingly assented to temporizing and adjusting terms; and a good supper, and an amiable tête-a-tête appeared to him, especially when he was hungry, an excellent interlude between the prologue and the catastrophe of a love adventure.†   (source)
  • We must also believe, and we say it with regret, that the prologue had begun slightly to weary the audience at the moment when his eminence had arrived, and created a diversion in so terrible a fashion.†   (source)
  • The silence which he preserved allowed the prologue to proceed without hindrance, and no perceptible disorder would have ensued, if ill-luck had not willed that the scholar Joannes should catch sight, from the heights of his pillar, of the mendicant and his grimaces.†   (source)
  • The prologue stopped short, and all heads turned tumultuously towards the beggar, who, far from being disconcerted by this, saw, in this incident, a good opportunity for reaping his harvest, and who began to whine in a doleful way, half closing his eyes the while,—"Charity, please!"†   (source)
  • The four personages of the prologue were bewailing themselves in their mortal embarrassment, when Venus in person, (~vera incessa patuit dea~) presented herself to them, clad in a fine robe bearing the heraldic device of the ship of the city of Paris.†   (source)
  • Much ill-will would also have been required, not to comprehend, through the medium of the poetry of the prologue, that Labor was wedded to Merchandise, and Clergy to Nobility, and that the two happy couples possessed in common a magnificent golden dolphin, which they desired to adjudge to the fairest only.†   (source)
  • This episode considerably distracted the attention of the audience; and a goodly number of spectators, among them Robin Poussepain, and all the clerks at their head, gayly applauded this eccentric duet, which the scholar, with his shrill voice, and the mendicant had just improvised in the middle of the prologue.†   (source)
  • He had, accordingly, hoisted himself, during the first verses of the prologue, with the aid of the pillars of the reserve gallery, to the cornice which ran round the balustrade at its lower edge; and there he had seated himself, soliciting the attention and the pity of the multitude, with his rags and a hideous sore which covered his right arm.†   (source)
  • At first he had enjoined the actors, who had stopped in suspense, to continue, and to raise their voices; then, perceiving that no one was listening, he had stopped them; and, during the entire quarter of an hour that the interruption lasted, he had not ceased to stamp, to flounce about, to appeal to Gisquette and Liénarde, and to urge his neighbors to the continuance of the prologue; all in vain.†   (source)
  • There then ensued between the physician and the archdeacon one of those congratulatory prologues which, in accordance with custom, at that epoch preceded all conversations between learned men, and which did not prevent them from detesting each other in the most cordial manner in the world.†   (source)
  • Even the custom of ransoming a warrior's body is refused, and the horror announced in Homer's prologue is realized, "leaving so many dead men—carrion / for dogs and birds."†   (source)
  • THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • His prologue traces the cause of Aineias' wanderings to the Judgment: "Tell me the causes now, O Muse, how galled / in her divine pride, and how sore at heart / From her old wounds, the queen of gods compelled him" (as Fitzgerald translates it).†   (source)
  •   THE PROLOGUE
      [Enter Chorus]   (source)
    prologue = introduction to the play
  •   Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke
      After the prompter, for our entrance.
      But, let them measure us by what they will,
      We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.   (source)
    prologue = introduction
  • Alldressed up and mooningaround like the prologue to a suttee.†   (source)
  • Chaucer used /growed/ for /grew/ in the prologue to "The Wife of Bath's Tale," and /rised/ for /rose/ and /smited/ for /smote/ are in John Purvey's edition of the Bible, /circa/ 1385.†   (source)
  • The greyeyed goddess who bends over the boy Adonis, stooping to conquer, as prologue to the swelling act, is a boldfaced Stratford wench who tumbles in a cornfield a lover younger than herself.†   (source)
  • Twelve years later the National Education Association revived the movement with a proposal that a beginning be made with a very short list of reformed spellings, and nominated the following by way of experiment: /tho/, /altho/, /thru/, /thruout/, /thoro/, /thoroly/, /thorofare/, /program/, /prolog/, /catalog/, /pedagog/ and /decalog/.†   (source)
  • …infidelity he withholds by his steady faith, He is no arguer, he is judgment, (Nature accepts him absolutely,) He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun failing round helpless thing, As he sees the farthest he has the most faith, His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement, He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.†   (source)
  • No, by my troth; not so much as will serve to be prologue to an egg and butter.†   (source)
  • Thus he his special nothing ever prologues.†   (source)
  • ] Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.†   (source)
  • QUINCE Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be written in eight and six.†   (source)
  • Lechery, by this hand; an index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts.†   (source)
  • SCENE: London; Westminster; Kimbolton THE PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?†   (source)
  • ] PHILOSTRATE So please your grace, the prologue is address'd.†   (source)
  • LYSANDER He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows not the stop.†   (source)
  • SNOUT Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt PROLOGUE, THISBE, LION, and MOONSHINE.†   (source)
  • ] PROLOGUE 'If we offend, it is with our good will.†   (source)
  • Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking, or spitting, or saying we are hoarse, which are the only prologues to a bad voice?†   (source)
  • No. Master Brook; but the peaking cornuto her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy; and at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither provoked and instigated by his distemper, and, forsooth, to search his house for his wife's love.†   (source)
  • Let us complain to them what fools were here, Disguis'd like Muscovites, in shapeless gear; And wonder what they were, and to what end Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd, And their rough carriage so ridiculous, Should be presented at our tent to us.†   (source)
  • THE PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • Volophone — Ben Johnson PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • To him she hasted; in her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt; Which, with bland words at will, she thus addressed.†   (source)
  • Chapter i. Of prologues.†   (source)
  • She that is Queen of Tunis; she that dwells Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples Can have no note, unless the sun were post— The Man i' th' Moon's too slow—till newborn chins Be rough and razorable: she that from whom We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again, And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.†   (source)
  • 'tis evermore the prologue to his sleep: He'll watch the horologe a double set If drink rock not his cradle.†   (source)
  • It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue.†   (source)
  • ] To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, Each toy seems Prologue to some great amiss: So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.†   (source)
  • Many other are the emoluments which arise from both these, but they are for the most part so obvious, that we shall not at present stay to enumerate them; especially since it occurs to us that the principal merit of both the prologue and the preface is that they be short.†   (source)
  • <1> THE PROLOGUE Our Host upon his stirrups stood anon, And saide; "Good men, hearken every one, This was a thrifty* tale for the nones.†   (source)
  • [Enter Prologue.†   (source)
  • Annualere: a priest employed in singing "annuals" or anniversary masses for the dead, without any cure of souls; the office was such as, in the Prologue to the Tales, Chaucer praises the Parson for not seeking: Nor "ran unto London, unto Saint Poul's, to seeke him a chantery for souls."†   (source)
  • I have heard of a dramatic writer who used to say, he would rather write a play than a prologue; in like manner, I think, I can with less pains write one of the books of this history than the prefatory chapter to each of them.†   (source)
  • Being thus benetted round with villanies,— Or I could make a prologue to my brains, They had begun the play,—I sat me down; Devis'd a new commission; wrote it fair: I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.†   (source)
  • To say the truth, I believe many a hearty curse hath been devoted on the head of that author who first instituted the method of prefixing to his play that portion of matter which is called the prologue; and which at first was part of the piece itself, but of latter years hath had usually so little connexion with the drama before which it stands, that the prologue to one play might as well serve for any other.†   (source)
  • In the case of the Wife of Bath, the interruptions of other pilgrims, and the autobiographical nature of the discourse, recommend the separation of the prologue from the Tale proper; but in the other cases the introductory or merely connecting matter ceases wholly where the opening of "The Tale" has been marked in the text.†   (source)
  • THE PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • First, it is well known that the prologue serves the critic for an opportunity to try his faculty of hissing, and to tune his cat-call to the best advantage; by which means, I have known those musical instruments so well prepared, that they have been able to play in full concert at the first rising of the curtain.†   (source)
  • …Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; As, stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse: And even the like precurse of fierce events,— As harbingers preceding still the fates, And prologue to the omen coming on,— Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climature and countrymen.†   (source)
  • THE PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • In like manner I apprehend, some future historian (if any one shall do me the honour of imitating my manner) will, after much scratching his pate, bestow some good wishes on my memory, for having first established these several initial chapters; most of which, like modern prologues, may as properly be prefixed to any other book in this history as to that which they introduce, or indeed to any other history as to this.†   (source)
  • ] PROLOGUE Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show; But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.†   (source)
  • THE PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • THE PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • HIPPOLYTA Indeed he hath played on this prologue like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.†   (source)
  • Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to say we will do no harm with our swords, and that Pyramus is not killed indeed; and for the more better assurance, tell them that I Pyramus am not Pyramus but Bottom the weaver: this will put them out of fear.†   (source)
  • THE PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • Enter PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • THE PROLOGUE.†   (source)
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