vanward

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But our place must be the vanward, Other leading brook not we— Bearing England's banner onward, The Britannia cleaves the sea.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

“She is not Cleopatra, but she is at least Charmian,” wrote Keats, conscious that his damsel was not in the vanward of the pageant of ladies. 

From Hearts of Controversy by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

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

Then, Diomede, unaided as he was, Rush'd ardent to the vanward, and before The steeds of the Neleian sovereign old120 Standing, in accents wing'd, him thus address'd.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

On the whole, it was 2 in the afternoon before Hawke, with those vanward Eight, could get clutch of Conflans.

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