Play opening, sometimes

Usage examples of prologue.

Prologue 25 Macdonald, Laurier, and King exploited the democratic limits of the prime ministership, without pretending they were zealous reformers.

Like an unperfect prologue, at third music, His part of speeches, and confederate jests, In passion to himself.

Prologue only is given -- but it is the most genuinely Chaucerian part of the poem.

As nowadays a section on the nature of the Christian religion is usually prefixed to a treatise on dogmatics, in order to prepare and introduce the reader, so also the Johannine prologue seems to be intended as an introduction of this kind.

Sun PROLOGUE Herm Aldaran snapped awake, his heart pounding and sweat streaming down his chest.

PROLOGUE Standing there, on the bridge of his Nebulon-B frigate, the pirate Urias Xhaxin clasped his cybernetic left hand to the small of his back with his right hand.

The greyeyed goddess who bends over the boy Adonis, stooping to conquer, as prologue to the swelling act, is a boldfaced Stratford wench who tumbles in a cornfield a lover younger than herself.

David Garrick, having become joint patentee and manager of Drury-lane theatre, Johnson honoured his opening of it with a Prologue, which for just and manly dramatick criticism, on the whole range of the English stage, as well as for poetical excellence, is unrivalled.

PROLOGUE Desires and Adorations, Winged Persuasions and veiled Destinies, Splendours, and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies.

To him she hasted, in her face excuse Came Prologue, and Apologie to prompt, Which with bland words at will she thus addrest.

Though translated from Boccaccio’s De Claris vrulieribus, Christine makes it her own in the prologue, where she sits weeping and ashamed, wondering why men “are so unanimous in attributing wickedness to women” and why “we should be worse than men since we were also created by God.

Nothing germane to the issue in your amended complaint when we called for the bill of particulars and all your people would surrender were the first two acts and the prologue, could have pursued it of course for another delay to keep running up your costs but I managed to convince my people to take mercy, always wondered how it came out.

As Phoebe flipped the book open to the prologue, the delicious aroma of freshly baked cinnamon rolls filled her nostrils.

Who's just been shot over a card game or killed in a duel over some drunken insult, who shot his overseer caught sleeping with his wife, the price of cotton on the docks at Beaufort, prices at a horse auction, a slave auction and whose slaves have run off like you've set up John Israel right there in your prologue?

Digges commissioned prologues and epilogues to be recited by himself and by the lovely Miss Bellaney.