Example Sentences

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He had been forbidding them to pay tribute to Cæsar; and proclaiming Himself a King.

From Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

The drains had been thoroughly overhauled, everything in fact, that could be done had been done, and the rooms now looked as cheerful as they had been forbidding when I had last seen them. 

From The Way of All Flesh by Butler, Samuel

The supper was as inviting as the dinner had been forbidding, indicating a change of policy in the kitchen cabinet.

From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Roe, Edward Payson