forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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)
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William
Indeed, the signs of his fall, or those that forerun it, are terrible, and amazing to behold.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John
Woe to light hearts, they still forerun our fall!
From The White Devil by Webster, John
In him, though the soul's forces were not feeble, the senses foreran them,--compelled them, sometimes conquered them.
From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Jackson, Helen Hunt
An hour of this passed, when the vibrations of feet in contact with the ground foreran the one who approached.
From White Fang by London, Jack
That the telegram foreran a more explicit statement there could be no doubt.
From David Malcolm by Lloyd, Nelson
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 Kipling, Rudyard
Faintly on this other hand the voices of the ladies returning from the garden foreran them.
From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo
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
He welcomed the mere accident of their presence as though it possessed a forerunning intelligence, as though it were the annunciation of his approaching change of life.
From The Choir Invisible by Allen, James Lane
The world knows the Suez marine highway only in its utilitarian aspect, and America's interest therein is that attaching to it as an enterprise forerunning Uncle Sam's route at Panama.
From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Penfield, Frederic Courtland
Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapour they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.
From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman
