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
The President's secret had been well kept, and for once rumor had not forerun execution.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
He only wondered what strange experience this blindfold journey was to forerun.
From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Ridgwell Cullum
The necessities of the old man prefigure and forerun the dawn of the immortal childhood.
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by George MacDonald
Such, then, was this Western land, so long the home of the out-dweller who foreran civilization, and who sometimes took matters of the law into his own hands.
From The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado by Emerson Hough
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
As we proceed to recall, one by one, the salient chapters in the history of fire, and of the arts of depiction that foreran the camera, we shall perceive a truth of high significance.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by George Iles
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 Aubrey De Vere
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
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
We are living in the time when that greater restoration with all its events forerunning and connected with it are about to come to pass.
From Studies in Zechariah by Arno C. Gaebelein
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
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 Frederic Courtland Penfield
