And yet his prefatory note begins, "I wrote these poems."

Then he wrote a prefatory sentence and got up to go to the loo.

Long as the editor cut out some coarse passages and wrote a short prefatory note for the play.

Were there prefatory signals that became more comprehensible after the fact?

(2000), together with a new introduction and many prefatory notes.

MS 16 has very recently had all prefatory matter removed in a rebinding.

In a prefatory note, he writes that Africa "is too large to describe.

I did it in a prefatory note to a book of mine called Tom Sawyer.

Each piece had its own visual environment, and each needed a little prefatory setting up by the players.

On many pages a prefatory paragraph or a concluding group of sentences is full across the page.

Jim's is one of the several spoken dialects called deliberate in a prefatory note.

Subsequent editions of the book added various prefatory and supplementary materials.

The author has already ducked that point in his prefatory disclaimer, so I suppose we must not ask.

The King republished it, with some new prefatory matter, on 25 April 1688.

In a prefatory note to that volume, I wrote:

(Again, a few prefatory remarks might have been useful.

None of the prefatory material lasted too long.

I suppose you will put in plenty of pegs in this prefatory part.

A new prefatory note creeps into his voice.

Her prefatory notes are dry, only now and then lighting up with echoes of "Personal History."

Cavendish also includes a prefatory letter to natural philosophers.

All of these are prefatory and explanatory material.

A Prologue is a prefatory piece of writing.

It seemed the kind of thing that would be done before the raid, a prefatory ritual of sorts.

Hughes' prefatory note for the book explained his intentions in writing the collection:

I think we'd better hold them back a bit and I'll write a preface.

Is it possible for me to write a preface here?

Now to tell how it began, but allow me one more preface.

For this he wrote the preface and the life of the author.

The first thing to note about the preface is that it needs to be read.

The most direct evidence comes from the prefaces of each book.

In the 1998 edition, her son wrote the Preface to the book.

Not to waste your time, then, I'll begin without further preface.

This had a second edition in 2008, with a new Preface.

So now my last book is done, with the exception of this preface.

According to the book's preface, under 100 copies were made by the author.

Professor Price also gives some history of the subject in the preface to his book.

He wrote the following in his preface to this discourse.

The preface, of course, is normally written at the end.

The preface was written in 1908 and should be read with reservations.

He wrote the prefaces for a number of works that appeared in his time.

The preface states that he had been collecting this information since a young boy.

The creation and purpose of the work is given in the preface.

He has written prefaces for several works, which are not included on the list.

Well, make that 26.9 percent, according to the report's own statistics, on which the preface was based.

He also wrote numerous prefaces to the books of others.

Nothing in the preface, however, has any direct relevance to the story.

This preface, however, was not included in the final publication.

The preface was not published with most copies of the book.

The preface introduces an 83 year old woman on a trip.

But you've got to do two things if that's your preferred course.

Many families simply moved to get into a preferred school.

I do not have any particular system, or preferred time of day.

I was not sure what his preferred answer to this question might be.

From many points of view, that would have been the preferred place to be.

This has not been the preferred approach to the period.

The house was also in their preferred school district, No. 15.

"At least not while I'm available as the preferred party."

From an early age that was my preferred reading matter.

That's why I want her to know she was on my preferred list from the start.

Note the name of a preferred hospital or one where the person has been before.

It was no longer an idea or a preferred choice.

"I want you all to know that this is not my preferred way of doing things," he said.

But of the three plans it was their preferred choice.

Well, university training seems to be the preferred method these days.

The reason was that the project did not go in the preferred direction.

The city must pick a preferred site by April 30, 2003.

The preferred living quarters were on the level just above.

No site or even preferred city was recommended in the report.

But either may be the preferred medicine for older children.

Pretty does not have any one preferred way of recording.

Early 2004, people can vote for their most preferred projects.

This was the second most preferred option according to the report.

The back room seemed to be the preferred area for couples.