The fire had died down and the camp was in the darker gloom that precedes dawn.

" This couplet is followed by a second, where allusion is made to the snow which interrupts communication: "Violently falls the snow, In the mist that precedes the lightning; It bends the branches to the earth, And splits the tallest trees in twain.

His small car precedes us as a guide, and we keep up with him as best we may.

" There are several versions of this piece of weather-lore, an old Kentish one being "Oak, smoke; ash, quash;" and according to a version given in Notes and Queries (1st Series v. 71): "If the oak's before the ash, then you'll only get a splash, If the ash precedes the oak, then you may expect a soak.

Since however, sense exhibits another more conspicuous life, pertaining to beings which are moved according to impulse and place, this must be established prior to that, as being a more proper principle, and as the supplier of a certain better form, that of a self-moved animal, and which naturally precedes plants rooted in the earth.

Then came disillusion, and they found the dying had no messages to send; they are at peace, the wonderful peace that precedes the final dissolution, and all they ask is to be left alone.

I am asking my countrymen in India to follow no other gospel than the gospel of self-sacrifice which precedes every battle.

The species of truce which always precedes decisive encounters drew to a close.

The hour when he most apprehended danger was that which just precedes the day, sleep then pressing the heaviest on the sentinel's eyelids, and rest having refreshed the assailants.

If a proceeding of this nature on the part of the Court of Pekin precedes our capture of the forts, it will be a great embarrassment to me.

it is but the calm that precedes the storm.

The Pragmatic method of deciding religious problems, which asserts the legitimacy of a 'Faith' that precedes knowledge, has always been, more or less consciously, practised by the religious.

I need not observe, that the Contrast of Thought in this Speech, and that which precedes it, gives an agreeable Variety to the Debate.

And the same rule holds as to antecedents and inconsistencies; for whatever precedes each thing, that of necessity coheres with that theme; and whatever is inconsistent with it is of such a nature that it can never cohere with it.

With this anti-pantheistic tendency he combines an anti-intellectualistic onebeing and production precedes and stands higher than contemplation; God's activity does not consist in thought but in production, and human blessedness, not in the knowledge but the love of God, even though the latter presupposes the former.

The ideal is not merely the morning which follows the night of reality, but also the evening which precedes it.

I was soon disgusted with the scene, and finding all my efforts to be useful, unavailing, I returned to the town, which now seemed like a city of the dead; for a gloomy silence reigned through the streets, like that fearful calm which precedes a storm; the shops were all closed, and all business was suspended.

a vowel either precedes or follows a consonant, and it is comparatively rare that two consonants are required to be uttered together.

On their way to the field they are attended by a band of music, which precedes the members as they march with their pieces over their shoulders.

There are bearded, tailed, and hairy comets; thus, when the comet is eastward of the sun, and moves from it, it is said to be bearded, because the light precedes it in the manner of a beard.

The apparent difference may perhaps result from the following consonant r, which is apt to affect the sound of the vowel which precedes it.

But when a definitive particle precedes the noun, it is very common with us, to introduce the possessive elliptically after it; and what Dr. Wilson means by suggesting that it is erroneous, I know not: "When the preposition of precedes mine, ours, yours, &c. the errour lies, not in this, that there are double possessive cases, but in forming an implication of a noun, which the substitute already denotes, together with the persons.

But when a definitive particle precedes the noun, it is very common with us, to introduce the possessive elliptically after it; and what Dr. Wilson means by suggesting that it is erroneous, I know not: "When the preposition of precedes mine, ours, yours, &c. the errour lies, not in this, that there are double possessive cases, but in forming an implication of a noun, which the substitute already denotes, together with the persons.

Custom has established it as a law, that this case of the pronoun shall drop its original termination, for the sake of euphony, when it precedes the noun that governs it; retaining it only where the noun is understood: but this certainly makes no alteration in the nature of the word; so that either my is as much a possessive case as mine; or mine and my are equally pronominal adjectives.

He writes it separately, but parses it as a part of the possessive noun or pronoun which precedes it! OBS.