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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 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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The muttation, the forerunner, the father.† (source)
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Yes, he had once overheard Professor McGonagall saying that his father and Sirius had been troublemakers at school, but she had described them as forerunners of the Weasley twins, and Harry could not imagine Fred and George dangling someone upside-down for the fun of it...not unless they really loathed them...perhaps Malfoy, or somebody who really deserved it...Harry tried to make a case for Snape having deserved what he had suffered at James's hands: but hadn't Lily asked, 'What's he done to you?'† (source)
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These were the forerunner of the modern sprinkler systems.† (source)
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And he was a forerunner in all these areas?† (source)
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The pyramid builders of Egypt are the forerunners of the modern stonemasons, and the pyramid, along with Egyptian themes, is very common in Masonic symbolism.† (source)
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Thy benignity not only succors him who asks, but oftentimes freely foreruns the asking.† (source)
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A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.† (source)
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Nor only him who asks, Thy bounty succours, but doth freely oft Forerun the asking.† (source)
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Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.† (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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The forerunners of the Pharisees.† (source)
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Death approaches; and the shadow which foreruns him has thrown a softening influence over my spirit.† (source)
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There is horror of grayness, of the death-forerunning pinch, of scandalous mouth or of fear-eyes, and of whatever is caused by no recollection of happiness and no expectation of it either.† (source)
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