forerunning

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Here’s a timeline of Steve Bannon’s White House months and the forerunning campaign role:

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017

A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Even to the poorest laborer's family comes now something like peace and rest forerunning the intermission of the night.

From Bits about Home Matters by Jackson, Helen Hunt

These Acts the people are much rejoiced with, as being words forerunning their freedom, and they wait for their accomplishment that their joy may be full.

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry

"We hear and we obey," answered they and turning back to their braves did his bidding and spread themselves about the sides of the valley in the twilight forerunning the dawn.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir