Both Uses of
preamble
in
The Fountainhead
- "I told you not to worry," Mike said to him once, without preamble, "at the trial that was.†
Chpt 4.1
- One evening, she said without preamble.†
Chpt 4.7 *
Definition:
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(preamble) a preliminary introduction to a speech, statute, or other writing -- usually explaining its purpose
or more rarely:
anything that precedes something else