forerun

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, the signs of his fall, or those that forerun it, are terrible and amazing to behold.

From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by Bunyan, John

When the water's countenance Blurrs 'twixt glance and second glance; When our tattered smokes forerun.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

But the reflexes have a machine-like fatality, and conscious aim does not forerun their execution.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

The comet was the talk, especially in the evening, of the world, as it was taken to forerun disasters.

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Williams, Henry Llewellyn