Precursor

Examples

• Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Again I saw that grim face look over the cliff, and I knew that it was the precursor of another stone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He will find it as sure a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• A difficult child was Frederick II for Mother Church, and he was only the precursor of many such difficult children. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Rarity, as geology tells us, is the precursor to extinction. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This may be considered as the precursor of the five-needle telegraph, first patented by Professor Wheatstone in 1837. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Watt was the proper precursor of the nineteenth century inventions, as in him were combined the power and attainments of a great scientist and the genius of a great mechanic. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He was the precursor of that large and various school of collectivist thinkers in the nineteenth century who are lumped together as Socialists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The organization of this great empire seems to have been on a much higher level of efficiency than any of its precursors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Occam, Roger Bacon, these are the early precursors of a great movement in Europe away from Realism towards reality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The incense sticks of the Chinese, the combustion of which proceeded so slowly and regularly as to render them available for time measures, were the precursors of the graduated candles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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