forerun

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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Was Eginhard, a youth of Frankish race, Whose face was bright with flashes that forerun The splendors of a yet unrisen sun.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Prosperity forerun thee: awkward chance Never be neighbour to thy wishes' venture: Content and Fame advance thee: ever thrive, And glory thy mortality survive!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

Peace, untaught Groome, My heart's so great that Ide forerun my doome.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

In truth his position was a perilous one, and this lull of fierce elements seemed to forerun some terrible explosion—where the storm might spend its fury was as yet hid in darkness.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by