forerun

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As when bands Of Pioners with Spade and Pickaxe arm'd Forerun the Royal Camp, to trench a Field, Or cast a Rampart.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John

I see thy quivering lip, thy fiery eye, Forerun a storm of passion.

From The Count of Narbonne A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Jephson, Robert

Thither, winged with speed, A numerous brigade hastened: as when bands Of pioneers, with spade and pickaxe armed, Forerun the royal camp, to trench a field, Or cast a rampart.

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

Forerun, fōr-run′, v.t. to run or come before: to precede.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Forerun thy peers, thy time, and let   Thy feet, millenniums hence, be set   In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton