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Whenever Mr. Rayne pushed his glasses up on his forehead and began by saying, "I am getting old and work is no longer light," Guy recognised the _avant-coureur_ of some new duty devolving upon him, and this was a phase of this morning's experience.
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin," proved to be the avant-coureur of the
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901
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If the writer meets with Mrs. Stowe in the next world he intends to acquaint her with much that did not appear in her ignorant compend of anger, hatred and malice - that avant-coureur of the John Brown raid which was the skirmish line of
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901
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It came ashore at Cap'n Sproul's feet as _avant-coureur_ of the rest of the wreckage.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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_Racine et Shakespeare_, an _avant-coureur_ of Romanticism which contained, besides matter on its title-subjects, some sound estimate of
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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In all nations, a spurious, pretentious religion has been the avant-coureur of their destruction.
The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870
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The child, brought up from infancy to feel the closest sympathy with nature, fairly trembled with delight over this _avant-coureur_ of the innumerable flowers which it was her chief happiness to gather.
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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I ONLY send this as an _avant-coureur_, without jack-boots, to tell you, that I am again on the wing, and hope to be with you a few hours after you receive it.
Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1778
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_avant-coureur_ for a lover, after an absence from his mistress of full three years.
Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820
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It is worthy of notice that the first fairy tale which appeared in France, and was the _avant-coureur_ of the host that soon followed under the lead of Charles Perrault, "_L'Adroite
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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