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  • The prologue of the novel sets the stage for the epic adventure that follows.
    prologue = an introduction to a fictional work
  • PROLOGUE:  a mountain range of rubble in which our narrator introduces: himself—the colors—and the book thief   (source)
  • Prologue: The Bite of the Raptor   (source)
  • PROLOGUE -- A Friday in November   (source)
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  • Prologue — 1969†   (source)
  • Prologue — The Day My World Changed†   (source)
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  • Prologue: Perennials for the Rock Garden†   (source)
  • Prologue — Pusan, South Korea, 1952†   (source)
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  • What's past is prologue.†   (source)
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  • But Father Martin made me understand that the stories that came before it—and there were many—were simply prologue to the Christians.†   (source)
  • Prologue — 2007†   (source)
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  • The new voice spoke without rushing and exclaiming, and when it said, "You're a fool, Sukkhi," which it did quite often, a laugh prologued the indictment.†   (source)
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  • Prologue When I was seventeen, my life changed forever.†   (source)
  • Lola was pacing the floorboards, one hand to her brow as she skimmed through the first pages of the play, muttering the lines from the prologue.†   (source)
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  • PROLOGUE How does one describe Artemis Fowl?†   (source)
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  • PROLOGUE: SHADE OF FEAR Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.†   (source)
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  • Maybe he sees it now as a prologue to these tapes.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — A Silence of Three Parts†   (source)
  • Prologue — Angels at Arby's.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — Aboard the Olympic — 1912†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — Evil in the Crosshairs†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE The Woman in the Photograph There's a photo on my wall of a woman I've never met, its left corner torn and patched together with tape.†   (source)
  • In the case of Carrie White, the only witness to any possible prologue to the final climactic events was Margaret White, and she, of course is dead Henry Grayle, principal of Ewen High School, had been expecting him all week, but Chris Hargensen's father didn't show up until Friday-the day after Chris had skipped her detention period with the formidable Miss Desjardin.†   (source)
  • So a whole Babel of computer languages has been created for programmers: FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, LISP, Pascal, C, PROLOG, FORTH.†   (source)
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  • PROLOGUE — LOIRE VALLEY, FRANCE — NOVEMBER 1565†   (source)
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  • Prologue: July 1956.†   (source)
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  • STUBB in Moby Dick PROLOGUE First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.†   (source)
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  • —May Swenson PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — The Coming.†   (source)
  • All of it, at this instant, is meaningless prologue.†   (source)
  • When the time comes to perform the act, I will do it without any prelude or prologue, and may simply walk up River Road one afternoon, arrive at Brimmler's Bridge, calmly climb the parapet or whatever it's called, and let myself plummet to the riverbed below.†   (source)
  • Prologue — SMOKE AND DIAMONDS.†   (source)
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  • Don DeLillo — Underworld PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • Prologue — Redbirds.†   (source)
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  • —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass PROLOGUE: 1996 June In the beginning, I believed in second chances.†   (source)
  • Prologue — INSPECTOR LINDSAY BOXER†   (source)
  • BILL O'REILLY May 2012 Long Island, New York Prologue JANUARY 20, 1961 WASHINGTON, D.C. 12:51 P.M. The man with fewer than three years to live has his left hand on the Bible.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history.†   (source)
  • Prologue It was a very distinct sound, the quiet scraping of steel on stone, that first told him that his visitors had arrived, followed by a strange sort of tapping and the shuffling of feet.†   (source)
  • What's past is prologue.†   (source)
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  • Demosthenes — PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ Prologue.†   (source)
  • If you tell a secret about a friend, other people want to hear all of it, prologue to epilogue.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — LONDON, 1979.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE — BORN AND "CORN" BRED†   (source)
  • Prologue — HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY†   (source)
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  • PROLOGUE: SOFIA†   (source)
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  • The previous February, during my first few days at the University Residence Club, before starting work at McGraw-Hill, I had written a dozen pages of what I planned to be the prologue of the novel—a description of a ride on a railroad train to the small Virginia city which was to provide the book's locale.†   (source)
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  • If a King or a Cardinal had done the prologue he'd have had the right materials.†   (source)
  • Prologue Where does a story truly begin?†   (source)
  • Prologue Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change?†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE The bottle was dropped overboard on a warm summer evening, a few hours before the rain began to fall.†   (source)
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  • Prologue Christmas Eve 1998 Exactly forty days after she'd last held the hand of her husband, Julie Barenson sat looking through her window toward the quiet streets of Swansboro.†   (source)
  • C#Prologue Prologue House of the Temple 8:33 P.M. The secret is how to die.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE P hysicist Leonardo Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own.†   (source)
  • The silence into which Briony read the prologue was tense.†   (source)
  • Giannini had planned her visit to Göteborg as a brisk, necessary prologue to long-term work.†   (source)
  • Maximum Ride Book Three — Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports — James Patterson Prologue.†   (source)
  • Nora Roberts — Summer Pleasures Second Nature ...Prologue.†   (source)
  • PROLOGUE Simon stood and stared numbly at the front door of his house.†   (source)
  • That old hands-on-his-knees move always was a prologue to some decision, it seemed.†   (source)
  • The darkness had prologued the pain and the storm-cloud; he began to remember what had prologued the darkness as she told him what had happened to him.†   (source)
  • That was the prologue, I think.†   (source)
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prologue rare meaning

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  • PROLOGUE: 'If we offend, it is with our good will.'   (source)
  • PROLOGUE: Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show; But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.   (source)
  • Enter PROLOGUE.   (source)
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