forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, no, doubtless he was deceived, and it was but one of those dreams that forerun death!
From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
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
Gone, gone, gone! they have fled before the piercing and terrible winds that forerun the storms and the hurricanes.
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière
It was in my sleep; but then, it was one of those dreams that always forerun the reality.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
When the wind backed around into the northeast, as it had on this occasion, it foreran a gale of more than usual power and of more than twenty-four hours' duration.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by James A. Cooper
It teaches that God, being the eternal omnipresent power and mystery which foreran, underlies, pervades and includes all things, cannot justly be figured as a man, locally here or there, and not elsewhere.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
Faintly on this other hand the voices of the ladies returning from the garden foreran them.
From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball
Such, then, was this Western land, so long the home of the out-dweller who foreran civilization, and who sometimes took matters of the law into his own hands.
From The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado by Emerson Hough
Along the length of the old trail a marvelous fifty years have enriched a history whose epic days record the deeds of vanguards, who foreran and builded for the softer days of golden-wedding years.
From Vanguards of the Plains by Margaret Hill McCarter
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
From the Moment these previous, these forerunning Complaints are perceived, they allow themselves to eat nothing but gross Meat, Eggs, or strong Meat-Soups.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
It was the fate that he expected; he, like so many, had a forerunning assurance of his end.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
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 Helen Hunt Jackson
