Crossword-Solution: PRETER 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

That is the only way of knowing the customs, the manners, and all the little characteristical peculiarities that distinguish one place from another; but then this familiarity is not to be brought about by cold, formal visits of half an hour: no; you must show a willingness, a desire, an impatience of forming connections, 'il faut s'y preter, et y mettre du liant, du desir de plaire.

That is the only way of knowing the customs, the manners, and all the little characteristical peculiarities that distinguish one place from another; but then this familiarity is not to be brought about by cold, formal visits of half an hour: no; you must show a willingness, a desire, an impatience of forming connections, ‘il faut s’y preter, et y mettre du liant, du desir de plaire.

The expressions are in the preter tense, and it would be downright idiotism to say that a man could prophecy in the preter tense.

Forgotten were her fears, her terror, her dream of vengeance; and, regardless of the hand which was still raised to threaten her, she cried out, in tones of mingled love and anguish: "Oh, Alexandrowitsch, how preter-human is your beauty! You stand, like an avenging god, before me; and I--I can only worship and tremble!" With faltering steps she approached, and folding her arms around his stalwart form, she laid her head upon his breast, and wept.

Yet even then they could hardly believe that the work had been accomplished by human agency, but they loudly protested that invisible demons had been summoned to plan and perfect this fatal and preter-human work.