338 examples of forerunner in sentences

He was to be a forerunner, was Mr. Beaumaroy.

"The king," she says, "has just issued an edict which is as yet only the forerunner of a reform which he designs, to make both in his own household and in mine.

The only remaining question is whether Zola will prove as successful as his famous forerunner.

2. Scarcely a petition was presented, which did not, among other things, pray for the reformation of the courts of justice; and the house, after several long debates, acquiesced[a] in a measure, understood to be only the forerunner of several others,[b] that the law books should be written, and law proceedings be conducted in the English language.

The Forerunner, a monthly magazine, entirely written by her, published for seven years from 1910.

Lectures on political economy were regarded as innovations; but they formed a forerunner of that event which had made several important changes in our literary and political hemisphere: the commencement of the 'Edinburgh Review.'

Twas but the gripe of a throat, and I am not so tender in that part of the body as to fear it is to be the forerunner of a closer squeeze.

The chilled blood of the tender beings who were fast dropping into the terrible sleep which is the forerunner of death, was quickened in their veins, however, when they heard the shout of delight that spontaneously broke from all their male companions, on learning the glad tidings.

PYLADES If we should perish, bitter self-reproach, Forerunner of despair, will be thy portion.

He now concentrated his powers upon literature, producing two novels, "La Nouvelle Heloise," the forerunner and parent of endless sentimental and picturesque fictions; and "Emile, ou l'Education," a work which has had enormous influence on the theory and practise of pedagogy down to our own time and in which the Savoyard Vicar appears, who is used as the mouthpiece for Rousseau's own religious ideas.

Every day was more exquisite than its forerunner.

This appears to me to be the only mode of arrangement that would be feasible, unless we resort to money wages, and I should regret to find that such a precedent was established in this instance, for it would only be a forerunner to similar demands at the coming period, when the praedials became free.

He is our first deliberate and conscious stylist, the forerunner of Charles Lamb, of Stevenson (whose Virginibus Puerisque is modelled on his method of treatment) and of the stylistic school of our own day.

My best course seemed to be to continue pulling slowly and keep the boat stern to the sea till after midnight, when the tide would change and the wind would lull for a short time,unless it should prove to be the beginning of the gale, and not its forerunner, as I had thought.

This was only a forerunner of the Christ-kindchen's coming.

The Uffizzi Gallery contains a circular "Madonna" by his hand, with a row of naked men for backgroundthe forerunner of Michael Angelo's famous "Holy Family."

When such astute lawyers as Bowen & Hare give up to amazement, the usual forerunner of consternation, it is high time to regard the case as startling.

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.

This second desertion was the forerunner of another still more cruel; for the officer who commanded the last boat in which was the governor, after having towed us alone, for a moment, caused the rope to be loosened which held it to the raft.

In France, the cry or hoot is considered as a certain forerunner of misfortune to the hearer.

Boone, when he moved into Missouri, was but a forerunner among the pioneers; many others followed him.

He felt that this anonymous letter was but the forerunner of a long series of troubles.

Chimney pieces, which in the fourteenth century were merely stone smoke shafts supported by corbels, have been replaced by handsome carved oak erections, ornamenting the hall or room from floor to ceiling, and the English livery cupboard, with its foreign contemporary the buffet, is the forerunner of the sideboard of the future.

It developed into a test of will and strength between Keith and his motherthe first of its kind, and the forerunner of numerous others still more deep-reaching.

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