forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The President's secret had been well kept, and for once rumor had not forerun execution.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
Woe to light hearts, they still forerun our fall!
From The White Devil by John Webster
It cannot forerun the limitations of its day, nor anticipate the conquests and common possessions of the future.
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church
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
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 David Christie Murray
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
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
In that he foreran our Lord, his deed is beyond our reach: but in three other concernments, in no wise.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
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
In this forerunning glow of the sunset, the pasture spread like emerald; for the dry touch of summer had not yet come near it.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
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
Imaginative forecast of the future is this forerunning quality of behavior rendered available for guidance in the present.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
