Preluding

They included "preluding" -- that is, offering an improvised beginning to a work or movement. ❋ James F. Penrose (2008)

Forth now, Erato! and I will unfold who were the kings, what the tides of circumstance, how it was with ancient Latium when first that foreign army drew their fleet ashore on Ausonia's coast; I will recall the preluding of battle. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

But this operation should not be performed in presence of the public; and, moreover, every instrumental noise -- every kind of preluding between the acts -- constitutes ❋ Hector Berlioz (1836)

It was one of those brilliant days preluding summer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To be fair, the #21 cover is Carlos Pacheco, and the “villains winning” idea fit in pretty thematically with Final Crisis, which it was preluding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So she took the lute and, preluding after the goodliest fashion, sang these couplets, ❋ Unknown (2006)

So I bade the servant bring him a new lute and he tuned it and preluding in a mode I knew not began to sing, improvising these couplets, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Mr. Hamilton explains that preluding, in a concert hall or salon, had the effect of settling the audience and of reminding it, along the way, that the pianist was a creative artist and not an automaton. ❋ James F. Penrose (2008)

The practice fell into disuse when studio recordings, in which preluding had no place, began to shape the expectations of audiences. ❋ James F. Penrose (2008)

Then she took her lute and, preluding thereon in manifold modes, lastly returned to the first and sang these couplets, ❋ Unknown (2006)

The folk rejoiced in her song with exceeding joy and my gladness redoubled, so that I took the lute from the damsel and preluding after the most melodious fashion, sang these couplets, ❋ Unknown (2006)

All the fine preluding of the first séances withered to fruitlessness because the mind of the world had still to realize the immense moral and educational effort demanded by those triple conditions that were dawning upon its apprehension, and because it was still unwilling to accept the immense political pooling they indicated. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

We embarked for the first in a filthy boat, full of unmentionable vermin, and started down the river in the evening, with storms of thunder and lightning and wind preluding the monsoon. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Mr. Joshua Rann, having a slight touch of rheumatism, did not join in the ringing of the bells this morning, and, looking on with some contempt at these informal greetings which required no official co-operation from the clerk, began to hum in his musical bass, “Oh what a joyful thing it is,” by way of preluding a little to the effect he intended to produce in the wedding psalm next Sunday. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In the midst of silence, with no preluding sound, he is wrapt in sudden light. ❋ Unknown (2004)

So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of revelry lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Upon this the owl broke silence, preluding his harangue with a pious ejaculation, for he was a devout Mussulman. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It was that period of uncertainty preluding potential relationship where he did not know if he dared open up a little more. ❋ Cook, Glen (1982)

[Honda] Preludes are [SICK]! ❋ Ryo Hazuki (2006)

My prelude goes through anything nature can [throw] [at it]. Except 2 feet of [snow]. ❋ URNT (2003)

[Prelude's] are [nice]. ❋ Douchebag (2004)

The prelude of [two] [strangers] to [each other]. ❋ Larstait (2003)

Man, [I think I just did] a [prelude]! I can feel [flakes] in my boxers. ❋ EpilepC (2011)

[Dam] I need to [buy a] prelude since my [mustang] isn't fast ❋ Nadz (2004)

"Hey, I just [got up] to go to the bathroom, who got [killed]?" "Oh, just the prelude dude." "[Oh, okay]." ❋ QBob (2006)

[honda] preludes are [fast] ❋ Sohaib (2003)

"I [started] [singing] [thinking] that the song had started, but it was still the prelude." ❋ Nakko (2022)

"Hey, I just [got up] to go to the bathroom, who got [killed]?" "Oh, just the prelude dude." "[Oh, okay]." ❋ QBob (2006)