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 Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

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

Woe to light hearts, they still forerun our fall!

From The White Devil by Webster, John

Indeed, the signs of his fall, or those that forerun it, are terrible, and amazing to behold.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John