forerun

Example Sentences

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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Cullum, Ridgwell

No, no, doubtless he was deceived, and it was but one of those dreams that forerun death!

From The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas père, Alexandre

The cape jasmine wore hundreds of her own white favors, whose fragrance forerun the sight.

From Dr. Sevier by Cable, George Washington

I saw evidences of war-paint and a recent war-dance that forerun an Indian attack.

From Vanguards of the Plains by McCarter, Margaret Hill