| 1. | Claypole thought must be the immediate precursor of a violent fit of crying. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | He will find it as sure a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him.. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | Badman_, a realistic character study which is a precursor of the modern novel and i. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 4. | In his explanation of the function of the eye by a comparison with the Camera obscura Leonardo was the precursor of G. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 5. | Thus passed our first general orgie, which was the precursor of many much more luxuriously and salaciously libidinous, and which I shall more minutely describe as events progress. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 6. | The storm increased, the flashes succeeded one another more rapidly, the thunder began to growl, and the wind, the precursor of a hurricane, whistled in the plumes and the hair of the horsemen. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 7. | The countess was accustomed to this tone as a precursor of news of something detrimental to the children's interests, such as the building of a new gallery or conservatory, the inauguration of a private theater or an orchestra. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | The mediaeval burgesses and the small peasant proprietors were the precursors of the modern bourgeoisie. - from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 9. | Among the early precursors of the novel we must place a collection of tales known as the Greek Romances, dating from the second to the sixth centuries. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 10. | In "Ecco Homo" he is careful to enlighten us concerning the precursors and prerequisites to the advent of this highest type, in referring to a certain passage in the "Gay Science"-. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
