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

I would lie thus for hours motionless, with lulled mind, until the breeze forerunning the dawn, or the quavering wail of the jackal, recalled the startled thought to the prison bonds of self.

From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)

It would be interesting, if our present purposes only warranted the undertaking, to trace the forerunning conditions of a period of scientific endeavour.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.