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  • The audience didn't quite appear to understand what was going on, but the prefect of studies gave them no time to commence any further applause, for that one word, "Forfeited," came quickly out of his mouth.

    The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon 1892

  • However, I immediately made up my mind, though, of course, not knowing how many prizes I had won, to stand up every time and sit down as soon as that old word "Forfeited" came along, which actually happened about four times.

    The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon 1892

  • (AFI) Is Considered "Forfeited" In California For Failure To File State Income Tax Returns.

    Minnesota Democrats Exposed 2009

  • In 1778, Galloway was convicted as a traitor, and the Commissioner of Forfeited Estates sold Durham Furnace to a new owner.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • McCain "Cut-and-Run" from Afghanistan, "Forfeited Gains" and Was Snookered by bin Laden digg

    Paul Abrams: McCain "Cut-and-Run" from Afghanistan, "Forfeited Gains" and Was Snookered by bin Laden 2008

  • Forfeited, at least to a degree, was the will and the jaw-setting determination that arises when ordinary citizens set their minds to changing their lot -- scrimping to save for a down payment, that sort of thing.

    Democrazy. Ann Althouse 2008

  • I look forward to your new book, How We Forfeited Yet Another American Presidency After Boring the Living Piss Out of American Citizens Through a Full Year of Campaigning, By Our Own Irrepressible Meanness, Loathing, and Cultured Steaming Hatred, which I expect will be quite heavy as there is so much material, not to read, of course, but to use as a doorstop.

    How stupid is it for Obama supporters to question the truth of McCain's "cross in the dirt" story? Ann Althouse 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Yet More of Iraq\'s Future Forfeited'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = '"Nine children were among 12 people killed when a suicide bomber blew up a truck in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk," according to BBC.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Yet More of Iraq's Future Forfeited 2007

  • Forfeited five games for use of ineligible player and received one forfeit victory.

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • Forfeited estates were not in those days quietly resigned;

    A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

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