All 6 Uses
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The Man of the Forest
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- His loud voice, hoarse with passion, preceded the scrape and crack of hoofs.†
Chpt 18 *preceded = went or was before
- The preceding night camp had been made on a level spot in the cedars back of the promontory.†
Chpt 20preceding = prior (in time or space)
- Strange, violent contrast to the cool scorn of the preceding moment!†
Chpt 21
- The last known of him had been late the afternoon of the preceding day, when a sheep-herder had seen him far out on the north range, headed for the hills.†
Chpt 24
- The next day Roy informed her that his brother John had come down the preceding night with the news of Beasley's descent upon the ranch.†
Chpt 24
- The preceding night Beasley bad been finishing a late supper at his newly acquired ranch, when Buck Weaver, one of his men, burst in upon him with news of the death of Mulvey and Pedro.†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)