Both Uses of
precede
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, a present from Lady Radley, his guardian's wife, a pretty professional invalid, who had spent the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.†
Chpt 10
- Gradually the events of the preceding night crept with silent blood-stained feet into his brain, and reconstructed themselves there with terrible distinctness.†
Chpt 14 *
Definition:
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(precede) to go or do before