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He answered without preamble.preamble = a preliminary introduction
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The Court interpreted the preamble as demonstrating that the Constitution emanated from the people -- not from the states.
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"You will have discipline," he said suddenly, without preamble. (source)preamble = introduction
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I was trying to remember the last time Margaret had entered my inner sanctum without some baggage, when she said without preamble or delay, "Mr. Hamilton, Red Stevens just died." (source)preamble = a preliminary introduction
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"You want to ride with me uptown?" he said without preamble.† (source)
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"Why," said Snape, without preamble, "why did you put on that ring?† (source)
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"Could you read some more, please?" she asks, and Etienne opens the book and whispers, "Delight itself is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself into a Brazilian forest ..." After a few paragraphs, Marie-Laure says without preamble, "Tell me about that bedroom upstairs.† (source)
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And invariably, quite apart from the text, there would be the preambles, and the illicit exchanges.† (source)
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There was no ringing preamble.† (source)
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Then Florentino Ariza extended his index finger, wet with brandy, so that she could suck it, as she had liked to do in the past during their preambles to love.† (source)
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Judging by his preamble of snorts and leg slaps, I figured he must have practiced this joke many times: "I tell my daughter, Hey, why be poor?† (source)
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Hunt cut him off: "McKim, damn your preambles.† (source)
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I start, and then I stop because I can't just plunge straight into it, I need a preamble.† (source)
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When we were together he began to talk very gravely to me, and to tell me he did not bring me there to betray me; that his passion for me would not suffer him to abuse me; that he resolved to marry me as soon as he came to his estate; that in the meantime, if I would grant his request, he would maintain me very honourably; and made me a thousand protestations of his sincerity and of his affection to me; and that he would never abandon me, and as I may say, made a thousand more preambles than he need to have done.† (source)
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I'm sorry," I plunged in without preamble.† (source)
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I have done it indeed sometimes; but the devil fetch me if ever I do again, since you make your preambles about it.† (source)
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