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Definition
to go or do before
- I let Mrs. Fairfax precede me into the dining-room, and kept in her shade as we crossed that apartment; and, passing the arch, whose curtain was now dropped, entered the elegant recess beyond.Chapter 13 (18% in)
- A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice.Chapter 6 (2% in)
- I sought Mr. Mason, delivered the message, and preceded him from the room: I ushered him into the library, and then I went upstairs.Chapter 19 (98% in)
- "You shall go into the breakfast-room first," said Bessie, as she preceded me through the hall; "the young ladies will be there."Chapter 21 (36% in)
- Something had happened which I could not comprehend; no one knew of or had seen the event but myself: it had taken place the preceding night.Chapter 25 (8% in)
- One night I had been awakened by her yells — (since the medical men had pronounced her mad, she had, of course, been shut up) — it was a fiery West Indian night; one of the description that frequently precede the hurricanes of those climates.Chapter 27 (42% in)
- ...number of cloths, till it glitters again; my third, to arrange every chair, table, bed, carpet, with mathematical precision; afterwards I shall go near to ruin you in coals and peat to keep up good fires in every room; and lastly, the two days preceding that on which your sisters are expected will be devoted by Hannah and me to such a beating of eggs, sorting of currants, grating of spices, compounding of Christmas cakes, chopping up of materials for mince-pies, and solemnising of...Chapter 34 (7% in)
There are no more uses of "precede" in Jane Eyre.
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