This preamble sent a shiver of dread down her spine.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
But Joe's grave face, in which character and sense spoke from every strongly drawn lineament, was disturbed, and he went without preamble to his point.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
It serves, though, as a fitting preamble to my story about Cleopatra.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune