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  • These were the forerunner of the modern sprinkler systems.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.†  (source)
  • No, no, doubtless he was deceived, and it was but one of those dreams that forerun death!†  (source)
  • Thy benignity not only succors him who asks, but oftentimes freely foreruns the asking.†  (source)
  • An hour of this passed, when the vibrations of feet in contact with the ground foreran the one who approached.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The forerunners of the Pharisees.†  (source)
  • Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapour they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.†  (source)
  • 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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