The victory of Lepanto had only gilded that disgraceful submission to the Turk which preluded the disastrous struggle in which her richest possessions were to be wrested from the Republic.
Italian poetry, preluded by the canzonets of Guido Cavalcanti and his rivals, rose to its fullest grandeur in the 'Commedia' of Dante.
But when an organism is about to undergo mutation, the change is often preluded by frequent and extensive variations.
For some years this drawing together has been preluded by a thousand signs, by mutual attraction in the realms of thought and of art, in the realms of politics and of commerce.
During the military epoch a campaign was opened or a contest preluded by a human sacrifice to the god of war, the victim at this rite of blood (chi-matsuri) being generally a prisoner or a condemned criminal.
This preluded an era of some three centuries of steadily developing luxury in Kioto; an era when an essential part of every aristocratic mansion's furniture was a collection of magnificent silk robes for use in the sumptuous No.
His nephew, the third Napoleon, in his youth, unfortunately became the bondsman of secret societies, whom he aided and abetted in the spoliations of 1870 which preluded his fall.
The emperor preluded this war of thrones against people by his coronation at Frankfort.
The murderers preluded the death of the females by derision and insults which added shame to terror, and the agonies of modesty to the pangs of murder.
Thence he descended upon Fano, then held by Roberto Malatesta, and after the manner of the age preluded his attack by gathering in the harvest that awaited the townspeople's sickles.
She preluded in eleven modes, then returning to the first, sang the following verses: Fire is not so fierce and so hot as the fires in my heart that glow, And granite itself is less hard than the heart of my lord, I trow.
I wished her lips hadn't that little quiver that preluded laughter and that her eyes were not the haven of all the dreams in the world.
A dozen of the guards were yelling their protests at the invasion, and a spurt of fire preluded the booming of Zimmerman's shotgun.
Such was the life the early Catholic missionaries led upon our borders; such, too, were the labors and sacrifices which preluded others, equally sublime and heroic, within the territory of our own republic.
The enemy had made a violent attack, preluded by heavy shelling, on the left of the 15th, and what I think was a holding attack on the right.
The conversation was preluded by a pretty, well-sustained passage of affectionate inquiries concerning the period of absence, and then the Major ejaculated .
Lord Pemberton came forward, lifted his hand and made a signal; and in a moment the thin cheering died under the sudden roll of drums beneath that preluded the Masonic Hymn.
Schilsky took his seat, and, losing his nervousness as soon as he touched the keys, preluded firmly and easily, with his large, white hands.
Flinging himself down on the seat, he preluded wildly in imitation of Rubinstein.
To the same inquisitors it must have seemed remarkable that the assassin preluded this second essay at murder, by thrusting his arm through the glass, and thereby smashing the window.
At dawn on the 15th, the bombing assault on the Craters 6 and 7 began again, this time preluded by a hellish bombardment of trench mortars and heavy guns.
The German assault was delivered just after one o'clock, when their guns lifted from the front trenches and was preluded by the blowing up of mines, which were, however, outside our trenches and had no effect on the ultimate issue.
They imagined that the music was a signal for another onslaught like that which preluded the capture of their former stronghold[336].
The Turks showed their usual constancy, despite the heavy and prolonged bombardment which preluded the attack here and all along the lines.
The third act opens with the intensely dramatic scene with the Witch of Endor, the interview beingpreluded by the powerful recitative, "Wretch that I am!
Then she preluded in fourteen different modes and sang to the lute an entire piece, so as to confound the gazers and delight her hearers.
Then he bade one of the damsels sing: so she took a lute and tuning it, preluded and sang the following verses: One sought me of lore and I yielded and gave him that which he sought.
In her hand she had a lute of Indian make, which she laid in her lap and bending over it as a mother bends over her child, preluded in four-and-twenty modes, amazing all wits.
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