Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

Alfred's first translation was of Pope Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, which he prefaced with an introduction explaining why he thought it necessary to translate works such as this one from Latin into English.

A leading champion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren, who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and acute critical essay.

When the Experimenta Nova finally appeared it was prefaced with a fulsome dedication to Friedrich Wilhelm.

The replies, which varied greatly in the length, spirit, and even the value of the information contained therein, were collected and prefaced by the Father-Presidente with a short general statement or abstract ; the compilation was thereupon forwarded to the viceregal government.

Gardner prefaced many of his later novels with tributes to coroners and forensic pathologists whose work was instrumental to solving cases.

T. S. Eliot's seminal poem of cultural disintegration The Waste Land is prefaced by a verbatim quotation out of Trimalchio's account of visiting the Cumaean Sibyl, a supposedly immortal prophetess whose counsel was once sought on all matters of grave importance, but whose grotto by Neronian times had become just another site of local interest along with all the usual Mediterranean tourist traps:

This ending was added in the theatrical release of the film beginning on 25 July 2003, placed after the credits and prefaced with the words " what if ..."

In 1934, at a time when Sebastian was publicly insulted by Nae Ionescu, who prefaced his book ( De două mii de ani ...) with thoughts on the " eternal damnation " of Jews, Mircea Eliade spoke out against this perspective, and commented that Ionescu's references to the verdict " Outside the Church there is no salvation " contradicted the notion of God's omnipotence.

He published a Quaker book of ‘ Selected poems Containing Religious Epistle etc .’ which was prefaced “ Sutton Benger 25th March 1774 ”.

A volume of Miscellaneous Works ; prefaced by a short biography, was published posthumously in 1820.

A collection of Benfey's various writings was published in 1890, prefaced by a memoir by his son.

Of much greater importance was the work entitled Monumenti antichi inediti (" Unpublished monuments of antiquity ", 1767 – 1768 ), prefaced by a Trattato preliminare, which presented a general sketch of the history of art.

Summers had prefaced his talk, saying he was adopting an " entirely positive, rather than normative approach " and that his remarks were intended to be an " attempt at provocation.

Philo wrote a systematic work on Moses and his laws, which was prefaced by the treatise " De Opificio Mundi ," which in the present editions precedes " De Allegoriis Legum ," book i ( comp.

A posthumous work entitled Contemplatio Philosophica was printed for private circulation in 1793 by Taylor's grandson, Sir William Young, 2nd Bart., ( d 10 January 1815 ) prefaced by a life of the author, and with an appendix containing letters addressed to him by Bolingbroke, Bossuet, and others.

The resulting constitutions are prefaced by a history more extensive than any before, again tracing the history of what was now freemasonry back to biblical roots, again forging Euclid into the chain.

The work is prefaced by an introduction and has ten chapters ; it was completed in 933.

The collection was prefaced with a foreword written by Gaiman-fan and collaborator, singer Tori Amos, as well as the hard-to-find public service announcement AIDS-awareness 8-page comic Death Talks about Life.

This version prominently displayed traditional ( Western ) values in bookending live-action segments: each episode was prefaced with an introduction by " Mrs. Maple " ( Janice Adams ), who delivered the moral of the episode.

Cogitosus himself prefaced his Life of Brigid with a claim that he was ' publishing a few of the many things which have been handed down without any shade of ambiguity by well-informed elders '.

The study was translated into Albanian in 1867 by the Italo-Albanian patriot Dhimitër Kamarda, and was prefaced by a poem with a revolutionary content, written by an Albanian author and addressed to his countrymen, urging them to rise up against the Ottomans.

Clark was unable to find the origin of the expression and prefaced the book with a supposed dialogue between two generals and attributed it to the memoirs of Falkenhayn.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.

The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Even Hague was repelled by the machinelike deadliness that was Kodyke.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

It was secured by an oversized padlock.

The rustling problem was by no means solved.

Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.