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• OK I know I am a little bit late on getting this up but heavens forfend - I have to work as well, anyway I digress. —  UP Pompeii
• Fancy, Olive, if you were laid low, which heaven forfend, and had to live mainly on the fruits of your imagination, wouldn't you grow more of those fruits on a bit of blank, sunny wall than on a perfect trellis work of messy little pictures and ruffled lace and calico hangings? —  The Brentons
• Marry, forfend, Mr. Punch_! Well quoted indeed, and, pertinently, from the Swan! —  Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891
• The gods forfend, And so I end. —  A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7
• ‘Allah forfend,' quoth she By heirship, sire to sire's transmission And the following is related of MOHAMMED AL-AMIN AND THE SLAVE-GIRL Ja'afar bin Musα al-Hαdi[FN#133] once had a slave-girl, a lutist, called Al-Badr al-Kabνr, than whom there was not in her time a fairer of face nor shapelier of shape nor a more elegant of manners nor a more accomplished in the art of singing and striking the strings; she was indeed perfect in beauty and extreme in every charm. —  Arabian nights. English

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