had preluded
- past perfect of prelude.
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Preparatory to his copious History of the Stuarts, he had preluded by two smaller works his “Critical History of England,” and his “Clarendon and Whitelocke Compared.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
