forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
In truth his position was a perilous one, and this lull of fierce elements seemed to forerun some terrible explosion—where the storm might spend its fury was as yet hid in darkness.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
He called to his mind the various portents and prophecies which had forerun their present danger.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
Indeed, the signs of his fall, or those that forerun it, are terrible, and amazing to behold.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John
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)
