Example Sentences

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And I realized that his experience of it — a feeling of forsakenness, of arbitrary cruelty — would be essentially the same as the tree’s.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

A strange sense of loneliness, of forsakenness, took possession of his heart.

From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon

And stealing yet more blessed than taking?'—THAT was forsakenness!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Marget was enduring her forsakenness and isolation fairly well, all things considered, and was cheerful, by help of Wilhelm Meidling.

From The Mysterious Stranger by Twain, Mark

I take nothing with me, save the remembrance of your goodness and love, and they shall support me in my forsakenness, and render it possible for me to endure life.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von