All 16 Uses of
precede
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- During the twelvemonth preceding this time he had been enabled by sustained efforts of industry and chronic good spirits to lease the small sheep-farm of which Norcombe Hill was a portion, and stock it with two hundred sheep.†
Chpt 1-3
- His head began to ache in an unwonted manner, and, fancying himself weary by reason of the broken rests of the preceding nights, Oak decided to get up, open the slide, and then allow himself to fall asleep.†
Chpt 1-3
- Boldwood looked, as he had a hundred times the preceding day, at the insistent red seal: "Marry me," he said aloud.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- Gabriel had almost constantly preceded her in this tour every evening, watching her affairs as carefully as any specially appointed officer of surveillance could have done; but this tender devotion was to a great extent unknown to his mistress, and as much as was known was somewhat thanklessly received.†
Chpt 22-24
- It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw a doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it.†
Chpt 28-30
- The union was not only an unutterable grief to him: it amazed him, notwithstanding that he had passed the preceding week in a suspicion that such might be the issue of Troy's meeting her away from home.†
Chpt 34-36
- Oak had hardly time to gather up these impressions into a thought, and to see how strangely the red feather of her hat shone in this light, when the tall tree on the hill before mentioned seemed on fire to a white heat, and a new one among these terrible voices mingled with the last crash of those preceding.†
Chpt 37-39
- After breakfast she was cool and collected—quite herself in fact—and she rambled to the gate, intending to walk to another quarter of the farm, which she still personally superintended as well as her duties in the house would permit, continually, however, finding herself preceded in forethought by Gabriel Oak, for whom she began to entertain the genuine friendship of a sister.†
Chpt 40-42
- Perhaps it would be more accurately described as a determined rebellion against her prejudices, a revulsion from a lower instinct of uncharitableness, which would have withheld all sympathy from the dead woman, because in life she had preceded Bathsheba in the attentions of a man whom Bathsheba had by no means ceased from loving, though her love was sick to death just now with the gravity of a further misgiving.†
Chpt 43-45
- The news had preceded Bathsheba to Weatherbury by half-an-hour, and Liddy looked inquiringly into her mistress's face.†
Chpt 46-48
- At this time—the July preceding the September in which we find at Greenhill Fair—he fell in with a travelling circus which was performing in the outskirts of a northern town.†
Chpt 49-51
- Then the great objection he had felt to allowing news of his proximity to precede him to Weatherbury in the event of his return, based on a feeling that knowledge of his present occupation would discredit him still further in his wife's eyes, returned in full force.†
Chpt 49-51
- Oak entered with the parson at this moment, and they all went upstairs together, preceded by Liddy Smallbury.†
Chpt 52-54
- Their suspense was diverted, however, by a discovery which was made in the afternoon, throwing more light on Boldwood's conduct and condition than any details which had preceded it.†
Chpt 55-57
- One Friday evening in August she walked a little way along the road and entered the village for the first time since the sombre event of the preceding Christmas.†
Chpt 55-57
- Those had been Bathsheba's words to Oak one evening, some time after the event of the preceding f, and he meditated a full hour by the clock upon how to carry out her wishes to the letter.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(precede) to go or do before