forsook
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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The very birds that winged that air, The very deer that harbored there, Forsook the glade and leafy brake And followed for the hermits' sake.
From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Arnold, Edwin, Sir
In life’s young morning, When heavenly promise lit his day, His smitten spirit, homeward turning, Forsook its tenement of clay.
From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various
The which King Alfred liking well, Forsook his stately Court; And in Disguise unknown went forth, To see that jovial Sport.
From Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 by D'Urfey, Thomas
Not even wilful love possessed me, when, Behold, thy spirit stole upon my sight And ravished me—What wonder that my ken Forsook this little world of vanity and men?
From Vacation Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.
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
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