forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The necessities of the old man prefigure and forerun the dawn of the immortal childhood.
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George
Was Eginhard, a youth of Frankish race, Whose face was bright with flashes that forerun The splendors of a yet unrisen sun.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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
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 La Gironière, Paul P. de
