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You will forbear that advantage, and will consent to postpone our trial to another time?'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

I will forbear all intercourse or correspondence with him,--for his as well as my own sake.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden

You say I am no gentleman; yet the sneers have been upon your side; and though I can very well perceive where you have lodged your sympathies, I will forbear the taunt.’

From Prince Otto, a Romance by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The House-of-Commons Damocles of words— Above him, hanging by a single hair, On each harangue depend some hostile Swords; And deems he that we always will forbear?

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

I will forbear to coppy any part therof, only name a head or 2. therm.

From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by Bradford, William