Sample Sentences forforerunner (auto-selected)
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But the new High group, unlike all its forerunners, did not act upon instinct but knew what was needed to safeguard its position. (source)forerunners = those that came before
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"This then is a forerunner of a fate which must be ours," wrote Pringle in his diary.† (source)
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And he was a forerunner in all these areas?† (source)
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These were the forerunner of the modern sprinkler systems.† (source)
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Mama Tataba's job, we were surprised to learn, was to live with us and earn a small stipend by doing the same work she'd done for our forerunner in the Kilanga Mission, Brother Fowles.† (source)
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He stood back on the brick sidewalk regarding me with that grave suspicion that sooner or later crept into the faces of all mortals who-knew us for any length of time, the forerunner of death, as pallor might be to a fatal fever; and I tried to explain to him they had not been here, mother or daughter, and we must begin some search.† (source)
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He visited a Price Club store, the forerunner of Costco, on a trip to California and came back and told my papaw, "Here's something Sam Walton will never do!"† (source)
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And in the fireplace itself, in a black pan set on a high wire rack, peanuts roasted over the hickory fire as the waning light of day swiftly deepened into a fine velvet night speckled with white forerunners of a coming snow, and the warm sound of husky voices and rising laughter mingled in tales of sorrow and happiness of days past but not forgotten.† (source)
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A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.† (source)
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No, no, doubtless he was deceived, and it was but one of those dreams that forerun death!† (source)
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Thy benignity not only succors him who asks, but oftentimes freely foreruns the asking.† (source)
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An hour of this passed, when the vibrations of feet in contact with the ground foreran the one who approached.† (source)
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Also Con Safos, a ca/6-tinged street-oriented magazine (and a forerunner of later magazines such as Lowrider, Q-Vo, and Firme); Regeneracion, the rebirth of a publication founded during the Mexican Revolution by the Flores-Magon brothers; and ChismeArte, a literary and art publication.† (source)
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The forerunners of the Pharisees.† (source)
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Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapour they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.† (source)
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Thither, winged with speed, A numerous brigade hastened: as when bands Of pioneers, with spade and pickaxe armed, Forerun the royal camp, to trench a field, Or cast a rampart.† (source)
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