Both Uses of
preamble
in
The House of Mirth
- It came to Lily therefore as a disagreeable surprise when, in the back of the box, where they found themselves alone between two acts, Trenor said, without preamble, and in a tone of sulky authority: "Look here, Lily, how is a fellow ever to see anything of you?†
Chpt 1.10
- Lily, oppressed by the close atmosphere, and the stifling odour of fresh mourning, felt her attention straying as Mrs. Peniston's lawyer, solemnly erect behind the Buhl table at the end of the room, began to rattle through the preamble of the will.†
Chpt 2.4 *
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