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

From Time Magazine Archive

But like many other incredible conceptions which have forerun their own still more incredible fulfillment, the very thought electrifies us with hope and courage.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

The President's secret had been well kept, and for once rumor had not forerun execution.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by John T. (John Torrey) Morse

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

Men of letters forerun science as the morning star the dawn.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith

As we proceed to recall, one by one, the salient chapters in the history of fire, and of the arts of depiction that foreran the camera, we shall perceive a truth of high significance.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by George Iles

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

Conroy would have smiled, but the chill that foreran the coming of the Lier-in-Wait was upon him, and his hand closed warningly on hers.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling

In him, though the soul's forces were not feeble, the senses foreran them,--compelled them, sometimes conquered them.

From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Helen Hunt Jackson

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

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

We are living in the time when that greater restoration with all its events forerunning and connected with it are about to come to pass.

From Studies in Zechariah by Arno C. Gaebelein

And yet, in this princeliest of cities so to be selected by the noblest citizens as worthy of highest privilege, argues, methinks conclusively, an excellence forerunning exercise of rule.

From Agesilaus by Henry Graham Dakyns

Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapour they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville