Crossword-Solution: PRELUDES 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The chief landmarks in the poem are as follows: after the first 103 lines, which contain at least three distinct preludes, three primeval beings are introduced, Chaos, Earth, and Eros—here an indefinite reproductive influence.

There was frost and the hard snow crackled under my wheels, but there was also that feel in the air which preludes storm.

These elaborate preludes and interludes may, to the strenuous ever-in-a-hurry American, seem useless and superfluous, but they serve a good purpose.

These preludes of conquest were easy and bloodless: the Greeks of the provinces, without patriotism or courage, were crushed by an irresistible force: the presence of the lawful heir might justify their obedience; and it was rewarded by the modesty and discipline of the Latins.

The pewee is the first bird to pipe up in the morning; and during the early summer he preludes his matutinal ejaculation of _pewee_ with a slender whistle, unheard at any other time.