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 Bunyan, John
It was in my sleep; but then, it was one of those dreams that always forerun the reality.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
It cannot forerun the limitations of its day, nor anticipate the conquests and common possessions of the future.
From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
The necessities of the old man prefigure and forerun the dawn of the immortal childhood.
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George
That the telegram foreran a more explicit statement there could be no doubt.
From David Malcolm by Lloyd, Nelson
Faintly on this other hand the voices of the ladies returning from the garden foreran them.
From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo
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 McCarter, Margaret Hill
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 Frederick, Edmund
Now, despite Mercia that frowned, they named him king of kings, Bretwalda; and the standard of the Seven In peace foreran his feet.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey
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
It was the fate that he expected; he, like so many, had a forerunning assurance of his end.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
And yet, in this princeliest of cities so to be selected by the noblest citizens as worthy of highest privilege, argues, methinks conclusively, an excellence forerunning exercise of rule.
From Agesilaus by Dakyns, Henry Graham
In such cases the axiom is not the forerunning cause of the action, but its justifying explanation.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various
