forerunning

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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 hear and we obey," answered they and turning back to their braves did his bidding and spread themselves about the sides of the valley in the twilight forerunning the dawn.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

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 Gaebelein, Arno C.