forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The necessities of the old man prefigure and forerun the dawn of the immortal childhood.
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George
Was Eginhard, a youth of Frankish race, Whose face was bright with flashes that forerun The splendors of a yet unrisen sun.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William
When the water's countenance Blurrs 'twixt glance and second glance; When our tattered smokes forerun.
From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard
