...The emperor began by remarking that "too great familiarity with victorywas often the precursor of great disasters, but that recrimination wasnow out of the question... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...A great exhilaration is often the precursor of disaster, and mine was to have asudden downfall...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...The grain of sand of which Pascal speaks would have caused the death of one man only, had not prior action ordered the events of which this death was the precursor...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
... Nevertheless, let us put the precursor of the Scoliae to the test...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...Slight variations in one and the same direction form a definite whole; and at long last the ancient precursor has become the Scolia of our own times...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...Our admiration of this gifted genius increases when we find that he was alsothe precursor of Goethe in regard to the metamorphosis of plants and of thefamous cellular theory...
Ernst Haeckel 「The Evolution of Man」
...This incident, however, was the precursor of one ofthe stormiest periods in the history of the city and its cathedralchurch...
C. H. B. Quennell 「Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich」
...Compared with his figures,those in the same chapel by his precursor,Masolino, are childish, and those by his follower,Filippino, unconvincing and without significance,because without tactile values...
Bernhard Berenson 「The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance」
...The dimness of γ and δ is an infallible precursor of rain, and if theBee Hive is not visible in a clear sky, it is a presage of a violentstorm...
William Tyler Olcott 「A Field Book of the Stars」
...In this he was the precursor of Newton...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
... Lombrosocalls the political criminal the true precursor of the progressivemovement of humanity...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
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