forerunning

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Here’s a timeline of Steve Bannon’s White House months and the forerunning campaign role:

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017

A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

I would lie thus for hours motionless, with lulled mind, until the breeze forerunning the dawn, or the quavering wail of the jackal, recalled the startled thought to the prison bonds of self.

From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)

Even to the poorest laborer's family comes now something like peace and rest forerunning the intermission of the night.

From Bits about Home Matters by Jackson, Helen Hunt

The forerunning qualm of seasickness was as nothing to this.

From The Call of the Canyon by Grey, Zane