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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 George Dadd

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

Men of letters forerun science as the morning star the dawn.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith

These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

From King Richard II by William Shakespeare

Conroy would have smiled, but the chill that foreran the coming of the Lier-in-Wait was upon him, and his hand closed warningly on hers.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling

As we proceed to recall, one by one, the salient chapters in the history of fire, and of the arts of depiction that foreran the camera, we shall perceive a truth of high significance.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by George Iles

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 Margaret Hill McCarter

It teaches that God, being the eternal omnipresent power and mystery which foreran, underlies, pervades and includes all things, cannot justly be figured as a man, locally here or there, and not elsewhere.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

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 James A. Cooper

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

The world knows the Suez marine highway only in its utilitarian aspect, and America's interest therein is that attaching to it as an enterprise forerunning Uncle Sam's route at Panama.

From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield

He welcomed the mere accident of their presence as though it possessed a forerunning intelligence, as though it were the annunciation of his approaching change of life.

From The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen

These Acts the people are much rejoiced with, as being words forerunning their freedom, and they wait for their accomplishment that their joy may be full.

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Lewis Henry Berens