forbade
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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An unknown monk, his life Defenseless, interposed, Forbade the old barbaric strife-- The red arena closed!
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)
An evil bird, I cried, did near me flit, Or luckless portent thrust my plans aside; Or Saturn's day, unhallowed and unfit, Forbade a journey from my Delia's side.
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.
The sire, to silence every fear About a life so very dear, Forbade that any one should let His son beyond his threshold get.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur
The wandering Wind-God saw thee lie With bleeding cheek and drooping eye, And stirred to anger by thy woe Forbade each scented breeze to blow.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
When unto Sir Dietrich / then the thing was told, Forbade he that 'gainst Gunther's / men they join the play.
From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by Needler, George Henry
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