All 31 Uses
precede
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The Three Musketeers
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- D'Artagnan bowed without replying, feeling his desire to don the Musketeer's uniform vastly increased by the great difficulties which preceded the attainment of it.†
Chpt 3.preceded = went or was before
- "You are very generous, gentlemen of the Guards," said Athos, full of rancor, for Jussac was one of the aggressors of the preceding day.†
Chpt 5. *preceding = prior (in time or space)
- But d'Artagnan had on the preceding day served his apprenticeship.†
Chpt 6.
- On arriving at the king's private antechamber, M. de Treville found La Chesnaye, who informed him that they had not been able to find M. de la Tremouille on the preceding evening at his hotel, that he returned too late to present himself at the Louvre, that he had only that moment arrived and that he was at that very hour with the king.†
Chpt 6.
- D'Artagnan related the adventure of the preceding day in all its details; how, not having been able to sleep for the joy he felt in the expectation of seeing his Majesty, he had gone to his three friends three hours before the hour of audience; how they had gone together to the tennis court, and how, upon the fear he had manifested lest he receive a ball in the face, he had been jeered at by Bernajoux who had nearly paid for his jeer with his life and M. de la Tremouille, who had nothing to do with the matter, with the loss of his hotel.†
Chpt 6.
- Nevertheless, he never borrowed a sou of his companions, although his purse was ever at their service; and when he had played upon honor, he always awakened his creditor by six o'clock the next morning to pay the debt of the preceding evening.†
Chpt 7.
- The interrogatories, preceded by a minute search operated upon the persons arrested, were almost always framed thus: "Has Madame Bonacieux sent anything to you for her husband, or any other person?†
Chpt 10.preceded = went or was before
- He believed they were come to conduct him to the scaffold; so that when he saw merely and simply, instead of the executioner he expected, only his commissary of the preceding evening, attended by his clerk, he was ready to embrace them both.†
Chpt 13.preceding = prior (in time or space)
- Planchet called his master's attention to a gentleman who had just arrived with his lackey, and only preceded them by about fifty paces.†
Chpt 20.preceded = went or was before
- Immediately the aldermen, clothed in their cloth robes and preceded by six sergeants, each holding a FLAMBEAU in his hand, went to attend upon the king, whom they met on the steps, where the provost of the merchants made him the speech of welcome—a compliment to which his Majesty replied with an apology for coming so late, laying the blame upon the cardinal, who had detained him till eleven o'clock, talking of affairs of state.†
Chpt 22.
- The aldermen did as they had done before, and preceded by their sergeants, advanced to receive their illustrious guest.†
Chpt 22.
- At seven o'clock in the morning he arose and called Planchet, who at the second summons opened the door, his countenance not yet quite freed from the anxiety of the preceding night.†
Chpt 23.preceding = prior (in time or space)
- All that the prudent Planchet had said to him the preceding evening about the sinister character of the old man recurred to the mind of d'Artagnan, who looked at him with more attention than he had done before.†
Chpt 25.
- In the examination which precedes ordination, a thesis is always a requisite.†
Chpt 26.precedes = goes, does, or is before
- He rose, and preceded by the host wringing his hands, and followed by Planchet with his musketoon ready for use, he approached the scene of action.†
Chpt 27.preceded = went or was before
- All this doubt only gave rise to a more lively desire of arriving at a certainty, and he went into his friend's chamber with a fixed determination of renewing the conversation of the preceding evening; but he found Athos quite himself again—that is to say, the most shrewd and impenetrable of men.†
Chpt 28.preceding = prior (in time or space)
- "VENTREBLEU!" cried d'Artagnan, rising from the table, the story of the present day making him forget that of the preceding one.†
Chpt 28.
- At the same hour as on the preceding evening, d'Artagnan retired.†
Chpt 31.
- He found Kitty at the gate, and, as on the preceding evening, went up to her chamber.†
Chpt 33.
- The next day Kitty went to see the young man again, and related to him all that had passed on the preceding evening.†
Chpt 36.
- That evening Milady was still more impatient than on the preceding evening.†
Chpt 36.
- The next morning, when Kitty presented herself at d'Artagnan's, she was no longer joyous and alert as on the two preceding days; but on the contrary sad as death.†
Chpt 36.
- All the spectators returned him his salute, accompanying this courtesy with a loud hurrah which was audible to the four; after which all four disappeared in the bastion, whither Grimaud had preceded them.†
Chpt 46.preceded = went or was before
- She rather feared that her preceding operations in England might have been discovered.†
Chpt 50.preceding = prior (in time or space)
- She had laid that down the preceding evening.†
Chpt 54.
- "Well, then," said Milady, "I confide in my brother; I will dare to—" At this moment the steps of Lord de Winter were heard; but this time the terrible brother-in-law of Milady did not content himself, as on the preceding day, with passing before the door and going away again.†
Chpt 55.
- That man was he who had pursued me during a whole year, who had vowed my dishonor, and who, by the first words that issued from his mouth, gave me to understand he had accomplished it the preceding night.†
Chpt 56.
- After supper I exhibited the same marks of languor as on the preceding evening; but this time, as I yielded to fatigue, or as if I had become familiarized with danger, I dragged myself toward my bed, let my robe fall, and lay down.†
Chpt 56.
- He wills that human vengeance should precede celestial justice.†
Chpt 57.
- It was a chaise drawn by three horses, driven by a postillion; Rochefort's lackey would precede it, as courier.†
Chpt 63.
- One of them preceded the rest by double the length of his horse.†
Chpt 63.preceded = went or was before
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)