Sentence examples for great forerunner from inspiring English sources

And we had to bury the best player, which was Michael Jones [the great forerunner of McCaw now], in rucks and scrums.

Ord's "Adam Lay Ybounden;" Pavlechko's "O Comfort, Now My People"; Mathias's "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates"; two plainsongs arranged by Larry J. Long, "Redeemer of the Nations, Come" and "The Great Forerunner of the Morn"; and other works and traditional carols; Nathan Botts, trumpet player; Mr. Long, organist and conductor.

Three years later he went to Paris, where he became the friend of many of the great forerunners of modern Western art, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Chaim Soutine, and Amedeo Modigliani.

And modern calligraphic masterpieces in Japan can sometimes fetch as much as a small Picasso painting.Oriental calligraphers (who work with the brush rather than the pen) study and copy the output of their great forerunners and work within the same rigorous limits.

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I saw then that Parker was one of the greats of jazz, a forerunner, a trendsetter, a giant of jazz.

It was not accepted as canonical by the Mahasanghika (Sanskrit: Great Community) school, the forerunners of Mahayana.

The Great Arab Revolt and its forerunner, the Iranian summer of 2009, were propelled by profound frustration as well as indignation at tyranny.

A council of elders, or senate, called the gerousia, which existed under Persian and Syrian rule (333 165 bc), is considered by some scholars the forerunner of the Great Sanhedrin.

C. 1290 Flanders, Belgium February 15 , 1370Liège, Belgium Jean Le Bel, (born c. 1290, Flanders [now in Belgium] died Feb. 15, 1370, Liège, Lower Lorraine) the forerunner of the great medieval Flemish chroniclers and one of the first to abandon Latin for French.

Apart from helping to launch the careers of Steven Moffat, Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher its use of wisecracking dialogue and grown-up perspective on interpersonal relationships makes it a forerunner of the great American teen dramas My So-Called Life, Buffy and Veronica Mars.