...I got heartily sick of it on my first voyageout, and rashly determined to check the old coaster in this habit ofhis, preparatory to stamping the practice out... 
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...He threw his head up preparatory to starting off, and he was just upon the move as I touched the trigger...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...He recognizes the normal stages, preparatory, invasional, reactionary, and resolutionary...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...Louisa White, by Toler & Cook, and in the call we expressed the opinion that they were still lurking about the city, preparatory to going off...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...Miss Davidson was born in Ohio, and received her preparatory education in the public schools of that state...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
..."Dis yer boy, Tom," said the old man, straightening out his legcarefully, preparatory to getting up, "is jes' like his gran'daddy...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The Conjure Woman」
...A large flock of ewes and lambsshould never be collected preparatory to cutting, as the latter, fromthe excitement and crowding, are less likely to recover from theoperation...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...They should all bethoroughly cleaned, and, if necessary, washed, preparatory to theprocess...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...Suddenly, in the last geological epoch, man, the descendant of a groupwhich like all others had led the narrow life of the preparatory ages,appears upon the scene...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
...So Bruce got up, inthe most leisurely fashion, preparatory to strolling across toinvestigate...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Bruce」
..."About noon she had probably completed the cell, upon which shehad been engaged, as, during the afternoon, she was occupied in bringingpollen, preparatory to laying her single egg in the cell...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...I keep the older, the more intelligent ones; the others are to have a term in the preparatory division...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...'Well,' drawled Sponge, pocketing his Mogg, preparatory to action...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Others say it was used for drying bundles ofwood by suspension over the fire preparatory to use in the fireplace...
Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff 「A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola」
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