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But as they rolled in coins of gold, they had one joy forsaken,
stormtiger Diary Entry stormtiger 2008
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Thou hast cherished thy suppliant man; the slayer, the God — forsaken,
The Eumenides 2002
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Thou hast cherished thy suppliant man; the slayer, the God — forsaken,
The Eumenides 2002
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The glen that was my father's own must be by his forsaken,
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Since the leader of liegemen hath laughter forsaken,
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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By the outside I kenn'd that the inn was forsaken,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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In them all, more or less visibly, man grasps at the one thing needful -- self forsaken,
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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As shells, by faithless waves long since forsaken,
Last Poems Laurence Hope 1884
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Here in Shakespeare's vision, a flower of her kin forsaken,
Studies in Song Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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As they came abreast of the prahu that was run ashore and forsaken,
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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