forsook
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Then broke each corps with terror riven, Then rushed the steeds from battle driven, For men of battery Number Seven Forsook their Red Artillery!
From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various
An ugly dream I had, quits not my sense, That you, made Princess of Thuringia, Forsook your father, and forswore your race.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma
In time each little waif Forsook his foster-mother, The well born babe was Ralph— Your captain was the other!!!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former city, what could be Of earthly structures, in His honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect?
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
In time each little waif, Forsook his foster-mother; The well-born babe was Ralph— Your Captain was the other!
From Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke
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