forerun
Example Sentences
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
O, this same thought did but forerun my need; And this same needy man must sell it me.
From Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, William
The President's secret had been well kept, and for once rumor had not forerun execution.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
Even so, it is not quick enough, I fear, to forerun the whims of goddesses.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch
I saw evidences of war-paint and a recent war-dance that forerun an Indian attack.
From Vanguards of the Plains by McCarter, Margaret Hill
