"Preliminary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... performance is announced of a Dramatick Tale of the King and the Miller of Mansfield, presumably the same Miller of Mansfield openly declared by one of Walpole's "hired scribblers" to be aimed at the overthrow of the Ministry. [6] All such preliminary skirmishes, however, served but to introduce the grand attack of the Historical Register for the Tear 1736, the first performance of which may be assigned to the ...
— Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden
... been the preliminary to the speech which sent Wesley forth for doughnuts, then to his study, ostensibly to finish his lovely sermon, but in reality to think thoughts which made his young forehead, of almost boyhood, frown, and his pleasant mouth droop, ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... Bukawai without preliminary, "for the three fat goats, the new sleeping mat, and the bit of copper wire as long as ...
— Jungle Tales of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... course pursued by that gentleman may possibly be attributed to his suggestion, he begs to assure General Dashwood that the reverse was the case, and that he strenuously counselled the propriety of laying a horsewhip upon the general's shoulders, as a preliminary ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... asked you to come to-day," she said without preliminary. "Now you have seen them, and there ...
— The Claim Jumpers • Stewart Edward White
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