forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, the signs of his fall, or those that forerun it, are terrible and amazing to behold.
From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by John Bunyan
Even so, it is not quick enough, I fear, to forerun the whims of goddesses.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
Yet this I have ever noted when thou wast thus, It still forerun some strange event: my Sister Died when thou wast thus last: hark hark, ho, What mournfull noise is this comes creeping forward?
From The Mad Lover The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont
The necessities of the old man prefigure and forerun the dawn of the immortal childhood.
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by George MacDonald
In that he foreran our Lord, his deed is beyond our reach: but in three other concernments, in no wise.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
Faintly on this other hand the voices of the ladies returning from the garden foreran them.
From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball
Along the length of the old trail a marvelous fifty years have enriched a history whose epic days record the deeds of vanguards, who foreran and builded for the softer days of golden-wedding years.
From Vanguards of the Plains by Margaret Hill McCarter
When the wind backed around into the northeast, as it had on this occasion, it foreran a gale of more than usual power and of more than twenty-four hours' duration.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by James A. Cooper
Conroy would have smiled, but the chill that foreran the coming of the Lier-in-Wait was upon him, and his hand closed warningly on hers.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling
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
And even as the flight began, the forerunning wind and rain came in a gust of fury.
From Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, or, the Naval Terror of the Seas by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
From the Moment these previous, these forerunning Complaints are perceived, they allow themselves to eat nothing but gross Meat, Eggs, or strong Meat-Soups.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
A timid hint of coolness, forerunning the dawn, rode up on the breeze.
From The Brass Bowl by Louis Joseph Vance
