The comptroller-general was triumphant; but his victory was but the prelude to his fall.
Montesquieu thus performed the prelude to the great work of his life; he had been working for twenty years at the Esprit des lois, when he published it in 1748.
The homage he received at the Academy was merely the prelude to that which awaited him at the National theatre.
This was the prelude to the conversion of the savages, which was soon to become the sole aim or the pious standard of all the attempts at colonization in New France.
The music stirred him a good deal; he had also been introduced to one or two young persons as Mr. Hopkins, the poet, and he began to feel a kind of excitement, such as was often the prelude of a lyric burst from his pen.
It is enough to say, that I found just what I expected to, and that I think this attack is only the prelude of more serious consequences,--which expression means you very well know what.
After he had got calm, he pulled out a sheet or two of manuscript, together with a smaller scrap, on which, as he said, he had just been writing an introduction or prelude to the main performance.
This did not look much like rest, but this was only a slightprelude to what was to follow.
It's a prelude to the 'Queen of Sheba,'" said Andrews.
The rhythm of the three green horsemen that was to have been the prelude to the Queen of Sheba began rollicking through his head.
But this calm was only the prelude to a storm, which suddenly broke over the head of Hastings, and disturbed his peace.
Sheridan seconded this amendment, and Burke opposed it, affirming "that to send an ambassador to France would be a prelude to the murder of our own sovereign.
This proclamation was considered by the Americans a prelude to hostilities, and preparations were made by them for a final contest with their mother country.
The fall of York Town was but a prelude to the emancipation of North America.
The burdens, already so crushing, are apparently only the prelude to what is coming.
But this calm was only the prelude to a fearful storm.
Instead of that, all these great deeds were but the prelude to his real life-work.
This was the sharpest fight he had yet had, and if it were a fair preludeto what was to follow, the expedition would soon consist of nothing but wounded men.
Nor did his influence end with his death and the laying down of his pen, for portions of his writings figured conspicuously and effectively in the literary propaganda which formed the prelude to the War of Independence.
The birds awoke beneath the fresh foliage of the great woods; and, with isolated warblings, sang the prelude of their morning-concert.
The prelude is still more remarkable than the play itself: a drunken tinker, removed in his sleep to a palace, where he is deceived into the belief of being a nobleman.
To this Liszt adds a prefix, the arpeggio prelude of No.
For good or evil, music has entered upon a phase that has raised executive skill to a pinnacle never attained before: and this it owes to Paganini: may it be the prelude to higher achievements in the spiritual domain of art!
Although the big fellows sometimes indulge in the luxury of fierce fighting, such fights are always the prelude to still closer agreements.
It was a fitting prelude to the entrance into the great life--to the life which ended never.
I fear this is but a prelude to a storm-wind which shall rush over and break me as a hurricane would kill those lovely flowers.
Exposure to all sorts of weather in this malarial country is telling on you; and I fear your feelings to- night are the prelude of a fever.
To be perfectly sincere with you, the feeling is growing that this profound quietude that has fallen upon me may be the prelude to final rest.
At last the welcome dusk blotted out the long shadows on the railroad tracks and the "Tigers" filed stealthily out of the yard to commence the skirmishing before supper, which always came as a prelude to the more important evening campaign.
In a shrub near them, a catbird cleared his throat in a few harsh notes as a prelude to a morning of tuneful parody, and on the slope below, a fat autumn-plumaged robin dug frantically in the sod for fugitive worms.
The idea of fitting a melody to the Prelude of Bach was original, and it must be admitted that in this case the experiment was successful.
One of the vocal pieces that have contributed most to his popularity is the celebrated Meditation on the First Prelude of Bach, more widely known as the Ave Maria.
Every town which owes its trade and its provisions to navigation, apprehends the approach of poverty and scarcity, and those which are less immediately affected, consider the infraction of our liberties as a prelude to their destruction.
It may be conjectured that the introduction originally formed the prelude to the rise of Saul: the intervening narratives, though not necessarily of late origin themselves, having been subsequently inserted.
A man of your brains," she added scornfully, "should know that loss of temper is but the prelude to defeat.
It certainly made its appearance in a fairly heavy flow in three of the years of the war, but last year, which will always be historical for the declaration of the armistice and the prelude of peace, there was no flow at all.
Nor can their manner of chanting this savage prelude be called the tone of human organs: it is rather a furious uproar; a wild chorus of military virtue.
The collapse of the furniture company might prelude a local panic, and farmers and country merchants collected in groups along Main Street to discuss the situation.
The yawn reminded her that she was sleepy, and without prelude she kissed him, asked the breakfast hour, and went up to bed.
The overture is a delightfully fresh composition of a pastoral nature, and serves as a fitting prelude to the story.
Every one knows, or ought to know, the beautiful Prelude with the lovely violin solo, the commencement of which is suggestive of Bach, whilst the end is reminiscent of Gounod.
A prelude of a few bars describes Phaeton gathering up his reins.
I allude to the famous "Ave Maria," composed upon the first preludeof Bach.
It is only necessary to point to the first bars of the Prelude and the commencement of the first act as a proof of this fact.
These high-handed actions were the prelude to a reign of terror; and Margaret, already humiliated by finding herself superseded, requested her brother to accept her resignation.
