Example Sentences

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The Watch-tower I sat one April in Provence on a small hill above an ancient town that Goth and Vandal as yet have forborne to "bring up to date."

From Tales of Wonder by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

I have forborne to do that, until, by the sanction of a verdict of my comrades, I might assure myself that I acted on the clearest proofs.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

These scruples you will remember, I respected, although I considered them misplaced; but I would not force the tenderest conscience, and I have forborne in my letters, to urge you upon this point.

From A Search For A Secret (Vol 3 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

And though your tenderness hath moved us to be requesting your protection against them, yet we have forborne, and rather waited upon God with patience till he quell their unruly spirits....

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry

But he was equally assured that not one of them would have forborne to laugh at his plight, as he sat abject and ridiculous in the very largest puddle in Redmarley woods.

From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)