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to go or do before
- Both in France and in England the women poets precede the women novelists.4 (38% in)
- Therefore I propose, making use of all the liberties and licences of a novelist, to tell you the story of the two days that preceded my coming here—how, bowed down by the weight of the subject which you have laid upon my shoulders, I pondered it, and made it work in and out of my daily life.1 (7% in)
- Have I, in the preceding words, conveyed to you sufficiently the warnings and reprobation of mankind?6 (85% in)
There are no more uses of "precede" in A Room of One's Own.
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