| 1. | Now the performer launches his nerve, he has pass'd his prelude o. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | The harping chords of prelude closed. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | I had already been out many hours and felt the torment of a burning thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 5. | As the piano had twice begun the prelude to the first figure Mary Jane led her recruits quickly from the room. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 6. | Then she played the prelude and said "Now, Maria" and Maria, blushing very much began to sing in a tiny quavering voice. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 7. | With this view he gave a kick at the outside, by way of prelude and, then, applying his mouth to the keyhole, said, in a deep and impressive ton. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude talking meantime. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 9. | A prelude am I to better players, O my brethren An example DO according to mine exampl. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 10. | The two ladies entered the drawing-room with that sort of official stiffness which preludes a formal communication. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |