All 11 Uses of
precede
in
The House of the Spirits
- I suppose I blew my stack from all the pressure I'd been under the preceding months.†
Chpt 4 *
- Every time she went on vacation to the country and arrived at Tres Marias in the whirl of dust that always preceded the coaches piled high with their chaotic baggage, her heart would pound with impatience and longing, like an African drum.†
Chpt 4
- She put on her old clothes from the preceding summer, which were almost too small, wrapped herself in a shawl, and tiptoed out so as not to wake the rest of the family.†
Chpt 5
- For what seemed like an infinite time they stood immobile, adjusting to the changes and the new distances, but then a sparrow trilled and everything reverted to the way it had been the preceding summer.†
Chpt 5
- He spoke of the workers of Europe and the United States, whose rights were respected because the slaughter of organizers and Socialists of the preceding decades had led to laws that were more just and republics that were governed properly, where the rulers did not steal powdered milk sent from abroad to the victims of disasters.†
Chpt 5
- The title of count put him on a different footing from the other immigrants who had arrived from Central Europe fleeing the plagues of the preceding century, from Spain escaping the war, from the Middle East with their Turkish bazaars, and from Armenia with their typical food and their trinkets.†
Chpt 6
- Blanca and her new husband spent their wedding night in the honeymoon suite of the best hotel in the capital, which Trueba had filled with flowers in the hope of winning his daughter's forgiveness for the string of assaults to which he had subjected her during the preceding months.†
Chpt 8
- Things had changed a good deal in the preceding years, and he felt overtaken by events that he had not expected to live long enough to have to confront.†
Chpt 11
- When the curfew was lifted for a few hours to enable people to go out and buy food, Blanca was amazed to see the stores filled with the products that during the preceding three years had been so scarce and that now appeared in the shopwindows as if by magic.†
Chpt 13
- They were peasants who had also been expelled from their hacienda, arriving as humbly as their ancestors of the preceding century to beg the patron to give them work in the coming harvest.†
Chpt 13
- She had an excellent relationship with the new government, just as she had had with the preceding ones.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(precede) to go or do before