I thought it therefore agreeable, to my Affection, and Obligation to your Grace, to
prefix your Name before them, both in English, and in Latine.
Notwithstanding your constant refusal, when I have asked leave to
prefix your name to this dedication, I must still insist on my right to desire your protection of this work.
In reading he grasped a word in its entirety; but when he spoke the words he had learned from the books of his father, he pronounced each according to the names he had given the various little bugs which occurred in it, usually giving the gender
prefix for each.
An alliterative
prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
* Dissertation on Romance and Minstrelsy,
prefixed to Ritson's Ancient
It hasn't any title, either." He went into the next room, sat down at my desk and wrote on the pinkish face of the portfolio the word, "Antonia." He frowned at this a moment, then
prefixed another word, making it "My Antonia." That seemed to satisfy him.
Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is
prefixed to the head of this chapter.
The two former are expressly prohibited by the declarations
prefixed to some of the State constitutions, and all of them are prohibited by the spirit and scope of these fundamental charters.
He looked like the darkly engraved portraits which we see
prefixed to old volumes of sermons, and had no more right than one of those portraits would have to step forth, as he now did, and meddle with a question of human guilt, passion, and anguish.
To justify their zeal in this matter, they allege two things: one is that, though the constitution of New York has no bill of rights
prefixed to it, yet it contains, in the body of it, various provisions in favor of particular privileges and rights, which, in substance amount to the same thing; the other is, that the Constitution adopts, in their full extent, the common and statute law of Great Britain, by which many other rights, not expressed in it, are equally secured.
Besides, the "de" which had been
prefixed to his name, raised him to the rank of the person with whom he was conversing.
Yet, neither thus disheartened or dismayed, The time
prefixed I waited; when behold The Baptist (of whose birth I oft had heard, Not knew by sight) now come, who was to come Before Messiah, and his way prepare!