forerun

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

To forerun any possible apprehension that he was going to extricate himself and leave her, he held her with considerable firmness, whispering encouragement into her ear the while.

From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Curtis, Wardon Allan

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

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

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard