forerun

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The President's secret had been well kept, and for once rumor had not forerun execution.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

My wretchedness unto a row of pins, They will talk of state, for every one doth so Against a change: woe is forerun with woe.

From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William

These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William

The comet was the talk, especially in the evening, of the world, as it was taken to forerun disasters.

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Williams, Henry Llewellyn