Before All

It was something she'd never had to do before-all of her information transfers had been done with film cassettes that fitted easily into one's pocket-but all she'd needed to do was look through the Yellow Pages and make a few calls. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (1988)

All that undimmed freshness of longing he had felt the day before-all the unnamed, unidentified, nameless desires -- had flooded back upon him, but now no longer aimless. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

The overall theme of the conference is that there is a lot of interesting stuff happening in what we might have thought of as "glue" before-all the code that holds things together. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Still, the tall mesas and Native American petroglyphs, sage and sage grouse, mule deer and pronghorns, and Dainis 'secret dry campsite tucked in a grassy gap between stony ridges and in a patch of ancient junipers and limber pines, where the northern lights were visible at night and where no one else had set foot since Dainis camped there the year before-all that should have shown me something of the grave beauty Dainis' eye managed to catch. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I've researched [the Abraham] case on [WestLaw] and [Lexis], ordered new office software for the front desk, sat three new client consultations, run to the courthouse and filed our motions, and had my oil changed on the way back, all before lunch. Sarcastically: Hey, I called the office supplies place and ordered the pens you asked for. "Wow... All that before lunch?" ❋ Honor (2004)