In experienced hands like those of Montfanon, Cibo and Pietrapertosa, such preliminaries are speedily arranged.

You might do that, while I attend to such preliminaries as wiping out the Fenachrone fleet.

We shall meet upon very different terms; we want no such preliminaries: you know my tenderness, I know your affection.

Such preliminaries to a wedding she had never expected to witness, and she witnessed them with awakened foreboding.