Example Sentences

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The legislator will teach as well as command; and with this view he will prefix preambles to his principal laws.

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

Once in a way a man will prefix his wife's name to his own, and there is one on record who prefixed his own to his wife's.

From The Living Present by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

I will prefix a few elemental facts which he has neglected and then will let him have his say.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin

“Perhaps, miss,” I exclaimed, with nothing more than reasonable anger, “the next time you mention that gentleman’s name you will prefix the Monsieur.”

From A Fluttered Dovecote by Fenn, George Manville