forsake
Definition: to abandon, forget
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The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References ... - By Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Mrs. Ellen Maria Elizabeth Cobham (Brewer) Hayman
...Bees will never thrive if you quand with them or about them If a member of the family dies and the bees are not put into mourning, they will forsake their hive ....
A Study of Fairy Tales - By Laura Fry Kready, Henry Suzzallo
...And Peterkin said, `` I will never forsake you, Gretchen, if you will never forsake me ! "...
Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities - By James Hayden Tufts, W Wetz, Hugo Helbing, Edward Thomas Owen, George J Tamson, A. L. Pogodin, Karl Brugmann, James Dowden Bruner, A Leskien, Wm E Bohn, William Edward Bohn, Mario Rossi, William Warner Bishop, George Rebec, Otto Knapp, Frank Gaylord Hubbard, Carl Meinhof, Frank Egbert Bryant, Rollo Ogden, Hugo Edward Eick, Fred Newton Scott, Hamilton Holt, Josephine May Burnham, Harry Gilbert Paul, Alexis Frederick Lange, John Harrower, Raymond Durbin Miller
...forsake, forsake, for-soken, B 15, 35, 306, 496; C 16, 140; B 18, 194; B 20, 239; 023,38 ....
A Library of Famous Fiction - By Harriet Beecher Stowe
...One morning, being very sad, I opened the Bible upon these words : " I will never, never leave thee, nor forsake thee . "...
The Novelist's Magazine -
...Do yon see how this hand trembles ae I stretch it towards you, and do you still doubt that 1 am Cyril, the brolher whom you love, and by whom you are beloved, and who swears, as there is a God in heaven, never, never lo forsake you ? " "...
Tom Jones - By Henry Fielding
...Molly remained a few moments in silence, and then bursting into a flood of tears, she began to upbraid him in the following words : " And this is your love for me, to forsake me in this manner, now you have ruined me !...
The Vicar of Wakefield - By Oliver Goldsmith
...Though the vicious 5 forsake thee, there is yet one in the world that will never forsake thee; though thou hadst ten thousand crimes to answer for, he will forget them all . "...
An adopted husband - By Shimei Futabatei, Buchachiro Mitsui, Gregg M. Sinclair
...`` The secret of making money is, first, to forsake humanity; and second, to forsake ideals and all such nonsense ....
The Villa on the Rhine - By Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, James Davis
...They desire mustard for the digestion of heavy food "--" Reverend sir, " said Prancken, trembling, `` if you command me to forsake Herr Sonnenkamp and Manna, I promise, you that I will do it forthwith ....
The Story of Waitstill Baxter - By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Houghton Mifflin Company
...How can I forsake her; and yet here is this new difficulty with father ? "...
The Tory Lover - By Sarah Orne Jewett
...I could as soon forsake my mother in her gathering age as forsake England now, ' he told me, one day in the summer ....
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III - By John Payne
...Indeed, I thought not that thou wouldst forsake me, who am thy mate, and praised be God who hath united me with thee ! '...
Author's Digest - By Rossiter Johnson
...Therefore, Sir Launcelot, I require thee and beseech thee heartily, for all the love that ever was betwixt us, that thou never see me more in the visage; and I command thee on God 's behalf, that thou forsake my company, and to thy kingdom thou turn again and keep well thy realm from war and wrack ....
The Land of Cockayne - By Matilde Serao
...Do not leave me again--never forsake me; it is so long since I have been calling for you--do not leave me . ' '...
Middlemarch - By George Eliot
...The man whose prosperity she had shared through nearly half a life, and who had unvaryingly cherished her--now that punishment had befallen him it was not possible to her in any sense to forsake him ....
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
..., Wedded to home, I home forsake; Fearful of change, I changes make; Too fond of ease, I plunge in toil; Lover of calm, I seek turmoil ....
The Count of Monte Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet, Pier Angelo Fiorentino, Henry Valentin
...Oh, no--no, not yet, " he cried, " do not forsake me !...