forerun
Example Sentences
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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)
Woe to light hearts, they still forerun our fall!
From The White Devil by Webster, John
Men of letters forerun science as the morning star the dawn.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander
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)
