prelusion

Updated: May 16, 2025

So sudden and so early a prelusion of summer, it was generally feared, could not last. But that only made every body the more eager to lose no hour of an enjoyment that might prove so fleeting.

Thomas De Quincey - Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1

So sudden and so early a prelusion of summer, it was generally feared, could not last. But that only made every body the more eager to lose no hour of an enjoyment that might prove so fleeting.

Thomas De Quincey - Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

Thus saying, he took a heavy draught of the liquor by which he was usually inspired, and the praises of which were the prevailing subject of his song; then, after much hemming, thrumming, and prelusion, and with many queer gestures and gesticulations, he began to effuse a lyric in the following fashion:

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fanshawe