forsake

• Driven from the post he would not of himself forsake, the love of life awoke in him; he struggled against death Three times he sank, three times he rose. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
• Whoy, dame, he may be an impostor And though he be so cruel koind, and deadly fond of the girl, now, he may forsake--may Look at, them, now," said the sexton of St. Hubert's. "See how he grasps her hand; and how, as he whispers his soft, insinuating flattery in her ear, she blushes and smiles upon him. —  The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales
• A trivial accident set her feet again in the path which she had designed to forsake, and which she was destined to adorn with a more brilliant distinction. —  Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag
• Yet must the journey go forward, no staying to pick every flower upon the road On Saturday next then am I to forsake--but I hope not for ever--this gay, this gallant city, so often described, so certainly admired; seen with rapture, quitted with regret: seat of enchantment! —  Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
• Here is the root of the evil,--forsake God, and He forsakes us Some evening this month he had been reading Baxter's Call to the Unconverted_. —  The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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