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

In this forerunning glow of the sunset, the pasture spread like emerald; for the dry touch of summer had not yet come near it.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

Even to the poorest laborer's family comes now something like peace and rest forerunning the intermission of the night.

From Bits about Home Matters by Jackson, Helen Hunt

The world knows the Suez marine highway only in its utilitarian aspect, and America's interest therein is that attaching to it as an enterprise forerunning Uncle Sam's route at Panama.

From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Penfield, Frederic Courtland