All 7 Uses of
precede
in
Mansfield Park
- The principals being all agreed in this respect, it soon appeared that a very few weeks would be sufficient for such arrangements as must precede the wedding.†
Chpt 21
- But, at any rate, his staying away at a time when, according to all preceding plans, she was to remove to London, meant something that she could not bear.†
Chpt 29 *
- He had dined at the Parsonage only the preceding day.†
Chpt 35
- …was prevented by various bustles: first, the driver came to be paid; then there was a squabble between Sam and Rebecca about the manner of carrying up his sister's trunk, which he would manage all his own way; and lastly, in walked Mr. Price himself, his own loud voice preceding him, as with something of the oath kind he kicked away his son's port-manteau and his daughter's bandbox in the passage, and called out for a candle; no candle was brought, however, and he walked into the room.†
Chpt 38
- It came, and she had yet heard nothing of her return—nothing even of the going to London, which was to precede her return.†
Chpt 45
- If the Rushworths were gone themselves to Mansfield, as was to be inferred from what Miss Crawford said, it was not likely that anything unpleasant should have preceded them, or at least should make any impression.†
Chpt 46
- The happiness she was imparting, too, happiness very little alloyed by the black communication which must briefly precede it—the joyful consent of her father and mother to Susan's going with her—the general satisfaction with which the going of both seemed regarded, and the ecstasy of Susan herself, was all serving to support her spirits.†
Chpt 46
Definition:
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(precede) to go or do before