The conception or ideal Prefigurement of his theme precedes him, like the pillar of fire in the night, drawing him onward surely and rapidly.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert
If I drop on his memory this apology for a bay-leaf it is from the fact of his having given the earliest, or at least the most personal, tap to that pointed Prefigurement of the manners of "Europe," which, inserted wedge-like, if not to say peg-like, into my young allegiance, was to split the tender organ into such unequal halves.
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James