All 7 Uses of
precede
in
Jane Eyre
- 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.†
p. 63.1preceding = prior (in time or space)
- 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.†
p. 141.1 *
- I sought Mr. Mason, delivered the message, and preceded him from the room: I ushered him into the library, and then I went upstairs.†
p. 237.7preceded = went or was before
- "You shall go into the breakfast-room first," said Bessie, as she preceded me through the hall; "the young ladies will be there."†
p. 262.9
- 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.†
p. 318.2preceding = prior (in time or space)
- 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.†
p. 354.8
- — to CLEAN DOWN Moor House from chamber to cellar; my next to rub it up with bees-wax, oil, and an indefinite 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 other culinary rites, as words can convey but an inadequate notion of to the uninitiated like you.†
p. 450.8preceding = prior (in time or space)
Definition:
to go or do before