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Before Thespis, the chorus narrated ( for example, " Dionysus did this, Dionysus said that ").
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Before and Thespis
Before The Sorcerer, Gilbert had constructed his plays around the established stars of whatever theatre he happened to be writing for, as had been the case with Thespis and Trial by Jury.
Before and chorus
Before the introduction of multiple, interacting actors by Aeschylus, the Greek chorus was the main performer in relation to a solitary actor.
Before the sacrifice, the sacrificial victim was led three times around a grain field where a chorus of farmers and farm-servants danced and sang praises for Ceres and offered her libations of milk, honey and wine.
Before the curtain falls the Compère announces " Last act ", and the chorus replies " Which is a fact ".
Before and narrated
Ernie also narrated a Christmas pageant, Twas the Night Before Christmas, in A Muppet Family Christmas.
The complete introductory sequence, narrated by William Shatner at the beginning of every episode of Star Trek except " The Cage " and " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", is:
Before the latter was transmitted, David Attenborough presented State of the Planet ( 2000 ) and narrated The Blue Planet ( 2001 ).
In 1951 Godfrey also narrated a nostalgic movie documentary, Fifty Years Before Your Eyes, produced for Warner Brothers by silent-film anthologist Robert Youngson.
Before and for
Before we get through he'll have the Blackfeet hankerin' for our hair and our goods.
Before dinner, he shaved for the second time that day.
Before leaving for America, he happened to see his old friend Jean Arp and confided to him his new resolutions.
Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.
Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.
Before you use 'em the light company's got to run in a heavy line and you'll need a new fuse box for the extra circuits.
Before you look for a farm you'll need to know ( 1 ) the kind and scale of farming you want to undertake ; ;
Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.
Before entering the service, Pfaff for five years did clerical work with a general merchandising and wholesale firm in New Orleans.
Before he testified for 20 minutes, Stein, who lives at 3300 Lake Shore Dr., admitted to reporters that he had a wide acquaintance with crime syndicate hoodlums.
Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.
Before thee, did not other kings possess it for a while, then pass away?
Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.
Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.
Before the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.
Before the early 20th century, treatments for infections were based primarily on medicinal folklore.
Before the Civil War, Carnegie arranged a merger between Woodruff's company and that of George M. Pullman, the inventor of a sleeping car for first class travel which facilitated business travel at distances over.
Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.
Before his departure for Rome, his friends had applied to the Venetian senate for a pension, to enable him to pursue his studies without embarrassment.
Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.
Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.
Before the passage of the lex annalis, individuals could run for the Aedileship by the time they turned twenty-seven.
Before and example
Before giving a mathematically precise definition, we give a brief example.
As the name implies, comic strips can be humorous ( for example, " gag-a-day " strips such as Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Marmaduke and Pearls Before Swine ).
Before DDT, malaria was successfully eradicated or curtailed in several tropical areas by removing or poisoning mosquito breeding grounds and larva habitats, for example by filling or applying oil to standing water.
Before that, the vocal virtuosity, not range, was the priority, with soprano parts rarely extending above a high A ( Handel, for example, only wrote one role extending to a high C ), though the castrato Farinelli was alleged to possess a top D ( his lower range was also extraordinary, extending to tenor C ).
Before the invention of clocks, people marked the time of day with apparent solar time ( also called " true " solar time ) – for example, the time on a sundial – which was typically different for every settlement.
Sherman offered Grant an example from his own life, " Before the battle of Shiloh, I was cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of ' crazy ', but that single battle gave me new life, and I'm now in high feather.
** Before the introduction of rollfilm, folding plate cameras with limited movements as described here were often used ; an example is the Goerz Taro-Tenax 9x12cm.
Before development of Köhler illumination the image of the light source, for example a lightbulb filament, was always visible in the image of the sample.
Before the Tudor period, English kings had been murdered while imprisoned ( for example Edward II or Edward V ) or killed in battle by their subjects ( for example Richard III ), but none of these deaths are usually referred to as regicide.
Before game engines, games were typically written as singular entities: a game for the Atari 2600, for example, had to be designed from the bottom up to make optimal use of the display hardware — this core display routine is today called the kernel by retro developers.
Before this it survived most strongly in British poetry, for example in the growing posthumous reputation of Dylan Thomas, in the work of Vernon Watkins, Laurie Lee, and the celebratory poems of Ted Hughes.
Financial settlement periods used to be much longer: Before the early 1990s at the London Stock Exchange, for example, stock could be paid for up to 10 working days after it was bought, allowing traders to buy ( or sell ) shares at the beginning of a settlement period only to sell ( or buy ) them before the end of the period hoping for a rise in price.
Before there was any general form of criminal appeal, a royal judge might grant a pardon either by way of clemency, because he felt the law was harsh ( for example, in the case of child convicts ) or the verdict dubious, to seek popular approval, or otherwise in the public interest.
Most of the films produced with it were adaptations of folk tales or poems-for example, The Night Before Christmas or The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish.
Before Kant, it was generally held that a priori knowledge must be analytic, meaning that what is stated in the predicate must already be present in the subject and therefore be independent of experience ( for example, " An intelligent man is intelligent " or " An intelligent man is a man ").
For example, an episode of Futurama that dealt with a character's devotion to Star Trek is named " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ", a level in the videogame Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time is called " Starbase: Where No Turtle Has Gone Before ", and an episode of DuckTales parodying Star Trek is entitled " Where No Duck Has Gone Before ".
A 21st century example is One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed ( 2004 ) by Melissa Panarello.
Before the replacement of the older ' aa ' with ' å ' became a de facto practice, an ' a ' with another ' a ' on top () could sometimes be used, for example in Johannes Bureus's, Runa: ABC-Boken ( 1611 ).
Before 2008, for example, TSO West historically played in Atlanta and Florida.
Before the 1999 election, for example, it was reported that Otan was the main focus in almost 60 % of the coverage.
Before devolution, for example, purely ' Scottish ' legislation was debated at Westminster in a Scottish Grand Committee composed of just those MPs representing Scottish constituencies.
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