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something (or someone) preceding and influencing another development
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something that indicates what will later happen
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something that indicates what will later happen
- At first, he was pleased with the discovery: hoping that it might be the forerunner of his release; but such thoughts were quickly dispelled, on his sitting down to breakfast along with the Jew, who told him, in a tone and manner which increased his alarm, that he was to be taken to the residence of Bill Sikes that night.Chapter 20 — Wherein Oliver is Delivered Over to Mr. William Sikes (2% in)
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