Meanings of long preamble in English

After a long preamble, he at last touched upon the topics of the occasion.

Forgive this long preamble: I am thinking aloud and feeling my way, as it were.

I have made a long preamble, but now I am coming to the moral of my story.

The climax to the long preamble was so unexpected that San Giacinto uttered a loud exclamation of surprise.

There was a long preamble about travelling, and semi-retirement, and the humidity of Singapore, and Wi-Fi and cybercafés.

It was a long preamble.

However, while he was making a long preamble, I made signs, from which she inferred that all was safe.

Miss Bartlett at once came forward, and after a long preamble asked a great favour: might she go to church?

You love George! And after his long preamble, the three words burst against Lucy like waves from the open sea.

He listened in growing horror as Haney began a rambling discourse with a long preamble about his heroic exploits in Korea.

I will not detain you with a long preamble to that which better judges will, perhaps, conclude to be little worth.

He paused, pounded the side-walk with his stick, impatiently, as if the long preamble made him as nervous as it did me.

It was in Reagan's handwriting, and began with a long preamble and terms, so general and verbose, that I said they were inadmissible.

John A. Gilmer, of North Carolina, offered as a substitute for the resolution of Mr. Clark a long preamble closing with this resolution:

It hardly constituted a surprise as in the three week- long preamble to the announcement the Scot's preference for a forward as captain was regularly documented.

"Will you tell me, aunt," asked Adrienne, "what is the good of this long preamble?"