forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
But like many other incredible conceptions which have forerun their own still more incredible fulfillment, the very thought electrifies us with hope and courage.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
He only wondered what strange experience this blindfold journey was to forerun.
From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Ridgwell Cullum
He called to his mind the various portents and prophecies which had forerun their present danger.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
O, this same thought did but forerun my need; And this same needy man must sell it me.
From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
In him, though the soul's forces were not feeble, the senses foreran them,--compelled them, sometimes conquered them.
From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Helen Hunt Jackson
Now, despite Mercia that frowned, they named him king of kings, Bretwalda; and the standard of the Seven In peace foreran his feet.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
At her side stood Ben, his lips twitching, and in his eyes that haunting fear which always foreran the father's struggles.
From The Seventh Noon by Edmund Frederick
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
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
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
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
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 Victor [pseud.] Appleton
It would be interesting, if our present purposes only warranted the undertaking, to trace the forerunning conditions of a period of scientific endeavour.
From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Alfred H. Lloyd
