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From Europe, where thousands were forsaking their homelands to work in the U.S., came other shipments of labor for Hawaii.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its sounds and sights were forsaking         The world as they faded in sleep, When they heard a music breaking         Out from the heart-light deep.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William

She stared again as though her senses were forsaking her.

From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

Chapter 4.XX.—How the pilots were forsaking their ships in the greatest stress of weather.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

She felt as if reason were forsaking her, and, but for her determined efforts to resist it, such a crisis might have occurred.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison