Example Sentences

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Serve him right; I have forbade him that cupboard.

From Jacob Faithful by Marryat, Frederick

He might as well have forbade the winds to blow.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

He did not tell me beforehand, or I should have forbade it.

From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)