What is "forerun"

Usage examples of "forerun".

Their portion was too easy this year and they mistrusted that ease, fearing such might forerun some great difficulty to come.

No, no, doubtless he was deceived, and it was but one of those dreams that forerun death!

The troubles with Philip and his Indians were preceded, we are told, by a variety of those awful warnings which forerun great and public calamities.

Adams thought that at last he was experiencing the divinely sent madness which foreruns destruction.

In the darkness that foreruns dawn I crossed Nigger Head Creek, a streak of shining black fringed by walls of solid shadows.

Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapor they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.

Then through her hands against the ground felt the vibration forerunning sound.

Thinking the flames to be the forerunning fires of an evil red dragon, the silver swooped around into a high cloud and poised to ambush the thing.

I could no longer hold the oar, and the forerunning drowsiness of cold and exhaustion was stealing over me, Weak white stars broke through the fog which glided suddenly away, fading like a ghost of smoke, and we found ourselves afloat just outside the mouth of the bay.

Then the moon rose, not the mellow gold globe promised by the forerunning luster, but a gaunt, red, savage moon, of the high Himalayas.

Instead, a febrile, nervous excitement seemed to charge the air like static electricity forerunning a storm.

And, after a time, the blaze died to a heap of glowing embers, and the forerunning wind of a northeast storm soughed and whistled about a house deep wrapped in contented slumber, a house no longer divided against itself.

How much more honorable a creed is that which was taught by the holy and truthful angels, uttered by the prophets who were moved by God’s Spirit, preached by Him who was foretold as the coming Saviour by His forerunning heralds, and by the apostles whom He sent forth, and who filled the whole world with the gospel,- how much more honorable, I say, is the belief that souls return once for all to their own bodies, than that they return again and again to divers bodies?

I had had to assume that some of my fuses had somehow forerun, for I saw morose hazes at various points, was anon aware of the dumb bump and hum of some explosion somewhere remote, as when gunnings of Mont Pelée in Martinique get, like echoes of God's voice, to ears in Guadeloupe.