forerun
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Prosperity forerun thee; Awkward chance Never be neighbour to thy wishes' venture: Content and Fame advance thee; ever thrive, And Glory thy mortality survive.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
Gone, gone, gone! they have fled before the piercing and terrible winds that forerun the storms and the hurricanes.
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de
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 Cullum, Ridgwell
Men of letters forerun science as the morning star the dawn.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander