forerun
verb 2
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2VERB + FORERUN
signs
FORERUN + NOUN
death
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verb
1
To run in front.
Bailey still sat, doubled over his book […] A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.
2
To precede; to forecast or foreshadow.
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
And in herself she moan’d, ‘Too late, too late!’ / Till in the cold wind that foreruns the morn, / A blot in heaven, the Raven, flying high, / Croak’d, […]
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Bailey still sat, doubled over his book […] A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.
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These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
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And in herself she moan’d, ‘Too late, too late!’ / Till in the cold wind that foreruns the morn, / A blot in heaven, the Raven, flying high, / Croak’d, […]
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