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

Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapor they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Melville, Herman

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

Not far off, on an island in the river, one can see people who are watching the fête and who think that they are present at one of the spectacles forerunning doomsday.

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Persky, Serge