Preliminaries

Examples

• The ground was measured, and preliminaries arranged. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The preliminaries are adjusted, and the butcher and myself stand face to face. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• That day they arranged together the preliminaries of the treaty of capitulation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Herein then are set forth in briefest space the preliminaries of a circuit of the globe in quest of fibre. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But even if his resolves had forced the two images into combination, the useful preliminaries to that hard change were not visibly within reach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For which reason, not to lose time upon preliminaries, I shall immediately enter upon the examination of these passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When she had gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a sort of genteel platoon-exercise, she withdrew. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I ran away, the writer began abruptly (without the usual preliminaries), the day after I saw you at the play, and these kind friends have taken me in. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• These preliminaries disposed of, he first examined the nightgown, and then devoted himself to the reading of Rosanna Spearman's letter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• These preliminaries completed, Mr. Kyrle and I set forth together for Limmeridge House. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On this present birthday, Mr. Bagnet has accomplished the usual preliminaries. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In 1801 the preliminaries of peace with England and Austria were signed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Come to the ground, and go through the preliminaries! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Having settled these preliminaries, Mr. Pickwick grasped the top of the wall, and gave the word 'Over,' which was literally obeyed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These preliminaries adjusted, Rose and Oliver returned home. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• For the preliminaries. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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