The Liberty party was not in any sense the precursor of the Republican party, which was based as much on expediency as on abstract right, and was therefore able to accomplish good instead of harm.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
This haste to be up on the first morning was a faithful precursor of the indomitable vitality of the Patriarch.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
Indeed, it is the higher order of man being that it most surely attacks; it is the precursor of many excellences, and, like the knight's vigil, if patiently and bravely borne, the knight is twice the hero.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood