forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
My wretchedness unto a row of pins, They will talk of state, for every one doth so Against a change: woe is forerun with woe.
From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William
Even so, it is not quick enough, I fear, to forerun the whims of goddesses.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch
The necessities of the old man prefigure and forerun the dawn of the immortal childhood.
From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George
It cannot forerun the limitations of its day, nor anticipate the conquests and common possessions of the future.
From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
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