foretaste

His fight against inequalities of rank is, as it were, a foretaste of the revolution.

By my faith, cousin, he hath given us to-day a foretaste of what he will be as a man!

If ever a human creature had a foretaste of heaven it was Honora during the few weeks that followed this happy day.

And I, poor foolish I, deemed all this to be a mere foretaste of the delights of living I should find higher above me in society.

It was a resume of the 'Quaker City' letters—a foretaste of the book which would presently follow.