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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 Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

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)

Does ulceration occur in the stomach or intestines, and threaten to penetrate through them—inflammation will often forerun and provide against the danger—glue the threatened membrane to whatever surface may be next it....

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

It was in my sleep; but then, it was one of those dreams that always forerun the reality.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

He started forward to meet the intruder, but there was no footstep—no sound save the hurrying gusts that foreran the approaching tempest.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

Along the length of the old trail a marvelous fifty years have enriched a history whose epic days record the deeds of vanguards, who foreran and builded for the softer days of golden-wedding years.

From Vanguards of the Plains by McCarter, Margaret Hill

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 Hough, Emerson

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 Cooper, James A.

He foreran the societies which insure against accident, and would guarantee whole bones for a year or a lifetime, according to the insurer's purse or fancy.

From Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie

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

Not far off, on an island in the river, one can see people who are watching the fête and who think that they are present at one of the spectacles forerunning doomsday.

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Persky, Serge

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

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Melville, Herman

I am of opinion, were all his voluminous centuries of fabulous relations compiled, they would vye in number with the Iliads of many forerunning ages.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John