forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
I saw evidences of war-paint and a recent war-dance that forerun an Indian attack.
From Vanguards of the Plains by Margaret Hill McCarter
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
Woe to light hearts, they still forerun our fall!
From The White Devil by John Webster
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
That the telegram foreran a more explicit statement there could be no doubt.
From David Malcolm by Nelson Lloyd
An hour of this passed, when the vibrations of feet in contact with the ground foreran the one who approached.
From White Fang by Jack London
At her side stood Ben, his lips twitching, and in his eyes that haunting fear which always foreran the father's struggles.
From The Seventh Noon by Edmund Frederick
Faintly on this other hand the voices of the ladies returning from the garden foreran them.
From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball
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 Helen Hunt Jackson
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
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 Herman Melville
A timid hint of coolness, forerunning the dawn, rode up on the breeze.
From The Brass Bowl by Louis Joseph Vance
Not far off, on an island in the river, one can see people who are watching the fête and who think that they are present at one of the spectacles forerunning doomsday.
From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky
