forest
noun
a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
forestal
-
a word derived from
forest.
Example Sentences
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Had my intention beene to forestal and purchase the world's opinion and favour, I would surely have adorned myselfe more quaintly, or kept a more grave and solemne march.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
And shall I therefore with malignant industry forestal the villain in all his black designs?
From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by William Godwin
Aweel, noo, I canna get out to forestal this graund wickedness.
From The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
This we wished at a fitting opportunity to forestal, and give his Princely Highness to understand it in a covert way.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
In this manner, men of irregular habits anticipate and forestal every hour of their lives, and pleasure and pain alternate, till pain, like debt, accumulates, and sinks its patient below the level of the world.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 by Various
