All 8 Uses
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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- Henchard preceded her through the door in the wall to the suddenly changed scene of the garden and flowers, and onward into the house.†
Chpt 10 *preceded = went or was before
- So determined was he to do nothing which should seem like trade-antagonism to the Mayor that he refused his first customer—a large farmer of good repute—because Henchard and this man had dealt together within the preceding three months.†
Chpt 17preceding = prior (in time or space)
- We go back for a moment to the preceding night, to account for Henchard's attitude.†
Chpt 22
- Chalkfield was the Councilman who had succeeded to the Mayoralty in the preceding November.†
Chpt 34
- The busy time of the seed trade was over, and the quiet weeks that preceded the hay-season had come—setting their special stamp upon Casterbridge by thronging the market with wood rakes, new waggons in yellow, green, and red, formidable scythes, and pitchforks of prong sufficient to skewer up a small family.†
Chpt 42preceded = went or was before
- The next time he came round in the other direction, his white waist-coat preceding his face, and his toes preceding his white waistcoat.†
Chpt 44preceding = prior (in time or space)
- The next time he came round in the other direction, his white waist-coat preceding his face, and his toes preceding his white waistcoat.†
Chpt 44
- From this time forward Elizabeth-Jane found herself in a latitude of calm weather, kindly and grateful in itself, and doubly so after the Capharnaum in which some of her preceding years had been spent.†
Chpt 45
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)