I declared that I left her because my life would have been forfeited if I had remained, and I valued it only for her sake.
When a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his sincerity he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
Has he not forfeited a decent right to it a thousand times?
Her spirits leapt up at this glimpse of forfeited unattainable joy; but she beheld a forlorn hope.
He, too, was promised a kingdom, but he was tempted to seize upon it in his own way, and so forfeited God's protection.
Type of bodily and of spiritual strength--strength forfeited by folly.
He has forfeited all the sympathy which his blameless conduct for years had won.
The emperor, by a proclamation, had restored to him his forfeitedsocial rights.
He retained his composure to the last, and before his trial assigned all his right, title, and interest in the Smyth estates to his eldest son, lest they should become forfeited to the crown by his conviction for felony.
I have forfeited all I ever could boast of, your affection and my own esteem.
Appointments to regiments and frigates raise the price of papers; and forfeited estates fly confusedly about, and darken the air from the Thames to the Atlantic.
I should have willingly forfeited my trunk and settled in another place, but Mrs. Levinsky had an approximate knowledge of the places where I was likely to do business and there was the danger of a scene from her.
But even my worrying seemed to be done automatically Having forfeited the invaluable services of Chaikin, who now gave all his time to his newly established factory, I filled the gap with all sorts of makeshifts and contrivances.
It is believed that the terrible defeat the Romans suffered on that day was owing, in great part, to the discouragement of the sailors, who supposed that their commander had forfeited the favor of the gods by this act of sacrilege.
In this connection, we have a story which would show that the poet was not believed to have forfeited the favor of the gods by his avarice.
Claims for payment of debts due from persons whose property hath been forfeited or sequestered.
Such forfeitedproperty shall be disposed of and accounted for by and under the authority of the Secretary of the Interior.
Besides, they've forfeited their right to him," the old doctor snorted, indignantly.
Not one of his creditors lost a penny, but he forfeited his entire fortune.
The detected thief, who would barter his wife's honour, has forfeited the right to control her destiny.
Nor is it only in what they have forfeited and lost, but also in what they have retained or invented, that these languages proclaim their degradation and debasement, and how deeply they and those that speak them have fallen.
The Jesuits, who adopted this plan, forfeited the confidence of Christendom, without making converts of the heathen.
Yet he did it nobly; Gave royally what we had forfeited Basely---- Bel.
He is under a bond to my master never to say a prayer, or else his soul and his body are forfeited at once.
One of these shots killed Ryan's mare, and it was by the mercy of God that the life of the prisoner had not become forfeited by his own act.
Oviedo affirms that each taxpayer, in addition to one third of his property, delivered one out of every three of his children, or in lieu thereof a slave, for the sacrifice; if he failed to do this he forfeited his own life.
A noble marrying a woman of the common people was degraded to her rank, took her name, and his estate was forfeited to the crown.
Those who were caught forfeited their mantles, which were taken to the house of the warrior, to be redeemed, perhaps, after the conclusion of the game.
When her father threatened to spank her--and did--and when her mother aided and abetted him, theyforfeited all claim to her tolerance.
He had forfeitedthe privilege of a domestic evening.
To hear that I have forfeited my fame is indeed the greatest insult I ever yet received.
If you have abandoned your children and your religion, God forgive your wickedness; if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no further mischief!
The whole of the land between the Ribble and the Mersey had been given to Roger de Poictou as a reward for his services to the Conqueror, but was forfeited to the Crown shortly before this date.
Camden says that the Earl built this to protect himself from certain of the nobility of the county whose estates had been forfeited to the Crown and bestowed upon himself.
Confidence in the sincerity of the men who so readily made sacrifices of principles was forfeited or greatly impaired.
