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 John Bunyan
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
I saw evidences of war-paint and a recent war-dance that forerun an Indian attack.
From Vanguards of the Plains by Margaret Hill McCarter
Prosperity forerun thee; Awkward chance Never be neighbour to thy wishes' venture: Content and Fame advance thee; ever thrive, And Glory thy mortality survive.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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
Now, despite Mercia that frowned, they named him king of kings, Bretwalda; and the standard of the Seven In peace foreran his feet.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
That the telegram foreran a more explicit statement there could be no doubt.
From David Malcolm by Nelson Lloyd
An hour of this passed, when the vibrations of feet in contact with the ground foreran the one who approached.
From White Fang by Jack London
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
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
In this forerunning glow of the sunset, the pasture spread like emerald; for the dry touch of summer had not yet come near it.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
I would lie thus for hours motionless, with lulled mind, until the breeze forerunning the dawn, or the quavering wail of the jackal, recalled the startled thought to the prison bonds of self.
From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton
In such cases the axiom is not the forerunning cause of the action, but its justifying explanation.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various
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