Both Uses of
forerunner
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomegue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.†
Chpt 1-2
- No, no, doubtless he was deceived, and it was but one of those dreams that forerun death!†
Chpt 15-16 *
Definition:
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(forerunner) something (or someone) preceding and influencing another development
or:
something that indicates what will later happen