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Chasing Lincoln's Killer
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- Secretary Welles, who kept a diary, wrote that Lincoln "had last night the usual dream which he had preceding nearly every great and important event of the War....[Lincoln] said [the dream] related to ...the water; that he seemed to be in some ...indescribable vessel, and that was moving with great [speed] towards an indefinite shore....[H]e had this dream preceding [the great battles of the Civil War]."†
p. 13.7preceding = prior (in time or space)
- Secretary Welles, who kept a diary, wrote that Lincoln "had last night the usual dream which he had preceding nearly every great and important event of the War....[Lincoln] said [the dream] related to ...the water; that he seemed to be in some ...indescribable vessel, and that was moving with great [speed] towards an indefinite shore....[H]e had this dream preceding [the great battles of the Civil War]."†
p. 13.9
- He also hoped to precede the rest of the cavalry and stake the first claim to the reward money.†
p. 180.7 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)