forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Woe to light hearts, they still forerun our fall!
From The White Devil by Webster, John
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
Gone, gone, gone! they have fled before the piercing and terrible winds that forerun the storms and the hurricanes.
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de
Was Eginhard, a youth of Frankish race, Whose face was bright with flashes that forerun The splendors of a yet unrisen sun.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
