Mychowski smiled, sighed, shook his head, settled himself before a new piano and plunged into the preludes, playing the entire twenty-five without pause, while business was suspended in the ancient and honorable Maison Pleyel, so captivating, so miraculous, was the poetic performance of this commonplace and kind-hearted virtuoso....
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Stannum leaned back on his wicker couch smoking a cigar, while the pianist made broad preludes in many keys....
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
The early Assyrian expansions are, historically, the most noteworthy of the early West Asian Empires because, unlike the rest, they were preludes to an ultimate territorial overlordship which would come nearer to anticipating Macedonian and Roman imperial systems than any others precedent.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth