Again, after a preluding silence, the guitar as magically responded as before; the sparks quivered along its strings; and again Pierre felt as in the immediate presence of the spirit.
It was that preluding hour of the night when the shops are just closing, and the aspect of almost every wayfarer, as he passes through the unequal light reflected from the windows, speaks of one hurrying not abroad, but homeward.
This made me think of my preluding the night before.
Senator Hoar presided with beautiful grace, preluding with some lovely reminiscences of Dr.
Nancy turned to Della Rocca, who waspreluding carelessly with smooth fingers and all his smiles alight.
Then Della Rocca seated himself at the piano, and, preluding softly, strayed from harmony to harmony into the songs he had composed for Nancy.
I heard him often preluding in a wonderfully-beautiful manner.
In the just published sonata with violoncello I find often passages which sound as if someone were preluding on the piano and knocked at all the keys to learn whether euphony was at home.
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.
Another symphony intervenes, preluding the celebration of the feast of the new moon in the palace, to which David has been invited.
It describes Jesus as the agent of God in bringing about the successive states of our social world; in introducing the preluding revolutions, and the final catastrophe of human affairs.
So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.
While preluding on her guitar, Cecily fixed her magnetic glances on Jacques Ferrand, who, fascinated, could not withdraw.
Listen, then, to the second couplet," said the Creole, preluding anew.
Again atmosphere is evoked and the mood achieved by the lyre preluding of the poet.
Tracy had the thought that they were calling for Emilia to commence; that it was nature preluding the divine human voice, weaving her spell for it.
The preluding strain lowers the tension of the storm of feeling and brings us to the attitude of the mere observer.
The words of invisible angel-chorus are those of the blessed maid trusting in God her savior, on a theme for which we are prepared by preluding choirs of harps, wood and strings.
After preluding chords in lowest strings a solo horn begins a [Music: Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza (Horn) dolce con molto espr.
Preluding runs lead to the simple descending line of treble with opposite of basses, answered by the jovial phrase.
A preluding fantasy begins in the mood of the early Allegro; a wistful melody of the clarinet plays more slowly between cryptic reminders of the first theme of the symphony.
As the horns had preluding chords to the whole song, so a single horn sings a kind of epilogue amid harmony of strings and other horns.
For the word =exarchô= has peculiar reference to preluding on the lyre.
While preluding for the Credo he took a theme from the movement and developed it to the amazement of the orchestra so that he was permitted to improvise longer than is customary.
In the telling of his tale, the minstrel puts off no time in preluding or introductory passages.
The peripatetic had promised them the annihilation of the new-fashioned virtuoso, and, like an angry boar, had already been preluding by whetting his tusks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preluding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
