vanward

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Till this hour St. George's standard Led the advancing march of time; England! keep it streaming vanward, Conqueror over age and clime!'

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.

And where it trod he saw the torch Of conflagration stalk the skies, And in the vanward of its march The monster form of Havoc rise.

From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

A man should be only partially before his time: to be completely to the vanward in aspirations is fatal to fame.

From The Return of the Native by Hardy, Thomas

These were the persons,—the two extremities of exalted and forlorn humanity, its vanward and its rearward man, a Roman consul and an abject slave.

From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale

Hawke is here; eight of his vanward ships are sweeping on for action.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas