prelibations

It is certain, also, that misanthropic gloom and bad temper besiege that class, by preference, to whom peculiar coarseness or obtuse sensibility of organization has denied the salutary warnings and early prelibations of punishment which, happily for most men, besiege the more direct and obvious frailties of the digestive apparatus.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

It is certain, also, that misanthropic gloom and bad temper besiege that class, by preference, to whom peculiar coarseness or obtuse sensibility of organization has denied the salutary warnings and early prelibations of punishment which, happily for most men, besiege the more direct and obvious frailties of the digestive apparatus.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

to write a novel: 1. choose story axioms and prelibations; 2. construct characters and design character circuitry; 3. design the fictional world; 4. plot the story; 5. write complete manuscript; 6. reconstruct plot outline and background material; 7. rewrite/revise and do final edit;

Writing: The Knuckleball Rogers 2006

God's endless love must have undying creatures on whom to pour itself out, and if to-day I possess -- as we all may possess in however feeble a measure -- some sips and prelibations of that great flood of love that is in God, I can look unblanched right into the eyes of death and say, 'Thou hast no power at all over me, I am eternal because the God that loves me is so, and since He hath loved me with an everlasting love, His loving-kindness shall not depart from me.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

I would not indeed affirm that this promise has not prelibations which will be tasted in the present time; for the life eternal commences on this side of the grave, and not first on the other; and here in the wilderness Christ is the bread from heaven, the bread of God, the true manna, of which those that eat shall never die (John vi.

Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863