forerun

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

From Time Magazine Archive

O, this same thought did but forerun my need; And this same needy man must sell it me.

From Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, William

The necessities of the old man prefigure and forerun the dawn of the immortal childhood.

From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George

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 Alger, William Rounseville

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