forerunning

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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

Our fleeting happiness here below is the forerunning proof of another and a perfect happiness, just as the earth, a fragment of the world, attests the universe.

From Seraphita by Balzac, Honoré de

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 Gaebelein, Arno C.

And even as the flight began, the forerunning wind and rain came in a gust of fury.

From Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, or, the Naval Terror of the Seas by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]