15 adjectives to describe forerunners

" We do not know the names of any of these singers, but they were worthy forerunners of the later lyrists of love and nature.

When Lucifer no longer could advance His works on the false grounds of ignorance, 140 New arts he tries, and new designs he lays, Then his well-studied masterpiece he plays; Loyola, Luther, Calvin he inspires, And kindles with infernal flames their fires, Sends their forerunner (conscious of th'event)

It consists of four scriptural scenes which might be called the direct forerunners of Sir John Gilbert and the modern illustrators.

He had come, resourceful, determined, talking of mighty enterprises, of cattle, and gold, and wheat, of wagon-trains, and railroad,an eloquent forerunner of the Gentile hordes that should come west upon the shoulders of Israel, and surround, assimilate, and reduce them, until they should lose all their powers and gifts and become a mere sect among sects, their name, perhaps, a hissing and a scorn.

It forms one of the most stimulating and delightful contributions to the class of Natural History books for the young that has ever been made, and was a fitting forerunner to "The Ivory King," which is devoted entirely to the Elephant, and has even a more vivid fascination than the first named volume.

Accordingly, it is a frequent forerunner of apoplexy and palsy.

I speak not of your grown porkersthings between pig and porkthose hobbydehoysbut a young and tender sucklingunder a moon oldguiltless as yet of the stywith no original speck of the amor immunditiæ, the hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifesthis voice as yet not broken, but something between a childish treble, and a grumblethe mild forerunner, or præludium, of a grunt.

Their style was elegant and academic, retaining a little of the stilted poetic diction of their classical forerunners.

When, not knowing this, he despatched another, this latter had promptly arrived, but its unintelligible allusions to lines in the lost forerunner were unpardonable for lack of that forerunner's light, and it contained especially one remarktrivial enoughwhich, because written in the irrepressible facetiousness so inborn in him, but taken, alas!

I speak not of your grown porkersthings between pig and porkthose hobbydehoysbut a young and tender sucklingunder a moon oldguiltless as yet of the stywith no original speck of the amor immunditiæ, the hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifesthis voice as yet not broken, but something between a childish treble, and a grumblethe mild forerunner, or præludium, of a grunt.

Through it, the mystic Forerunners reveal themselves to the human soul most alluringly; enthralling it with their pure charms, dispelling the illusions of the senses and the glamor of the world, in the light of their holy loveliness.

Spattering raindrops whizzed in her face, ominous forerunners from the inky sky.

However, the knight who was responsible for its construction was Sir Edward Dalyngrudge, who fought at both Crecy and Poictiers, and must therefore have seen the primitive forerunner of the modern field-gun in use.

He is a sort of shadowy forerunner of Edgar Linton.

* There is a great falling off in quality as between The Pointing Man and the anonymous authoress's latest effort, The Man Who Tried Everything (HUTCHINSON), a fact which may be partly accounted for by the brief time elapsing between its appearance and that of its immediate forerunner, The Man from Trinidad.

15 adjectives to describe  forerunners