But he did not go; and his voice was so sweet, and his ways so winning, that disgust insensibly melted into that sort of forgiveness one accords (let me repeat the illustration) to the deer that forsakes its comrade.
Her mother has sense clear enough where habitual experience can guide it, but that sense is confused, and forsakes her when forced from the regular pathway in which it has been accustomed to tread.
When I think this, Nature, by thee forsook, Forsakesme too.
Well, now that Catiline Forsakes our cause, you are no doubt the man To lead us in our enterprise.
But who can guess that crisis of the soul When the old glory first forsakes the goal?
And it is just as if a soldier that hath waged war under a captain, and afterwards forsakes him, and turns to another; and after that, leaves this other captain, and turns to his former captain.
Whoever forsakes it will for ever look after it with longing, lament the loss which he does not endeavour to repair, and desire the good which he wants resolution to seize and keep.
That only is which maintains its place and keeps its nature; whatever falls away from this forsakes the existence which is essential to its nature.
He will, then, reform his ways, and through the fear of losing his fortune he forsakes his iniquity.
Oh, Odo, Odo, my soul is troubled, and St. Michael forsakes me!
When war dismays my barons bold, 'tis time for war to cease; When Heaven forsakes my pious monks, the will of Heaven is peace.
Let the vulgar not see, to pity or scorn thee, daughter of kings as great as he who abandons and forsakes thee!
This heart was human once, or why recall Einsiedeln, now, and Würzburg which the Mayne Forsakes her course to fold as with an arm?
The consciousness of what his situation has of the ludicrous never forsakes him, and his anger against the whole female sex, which he works up more and more, involuntarily assumes a comic character.
For one moment his presence of mind forsakes him and he is at a loss how to extricate himself, but his courage speedily returns, and he boldly and irresistibly makes his way through his enemies.
Long raged promiscuous combat, half conceal'd, When sudden parle suspended all the field; Then roar the shouts, the smoke forsakes the plain And the huge hill is topt with heaps of slain.
The father's philosophy forsakeshim now; parental feeling has uncontrolled sway.
We then sang a few verses and all knelt down, commending our dear brothers to the care of Him who never leaves nor forsakes his children.
Further, no act of virtue forsakes the mean of virtue.
Pine and oak woods are also favorite resorts, especially at the north, where the bird nowadays forsakes the orchards to hide his beauty, if he can, unharmed by the rifle that only rarely is offered so shining a mark.
Four ivory eggs soon pave its floor With russet specks bedight-- The vessel weighs, forsakes the shore, And lessens to the sight.
Verily, youth is good, but old age is better--to the man who forsakes not his youth when his youth forsakes him.
Suppose a manforsakes his wicked ways, his debauched and filthy life; yet if these thoughts, that Jesus Christ will not receive him, be entertained and nourished in his heart; these thoughts will keep him from coming to Jesus Christ.
He forsakes him--'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
At the same place Luke forsakes Mark and deviates widely, tho agreeing closely with Matthew in the three preceding verses.
Matthew again forsakes Mark's order by bringing forward the mission of the twelve to a place much earlier than it occupies in Mark's narrative.
Since when hath nature been so self-opposed That heaven forsakes the just and righteous cause, While hell protects it?
I renounce This recreant monarch whoforsakes himself.
She comes; and feeble nature now, I find, Shrinks back in danger, and forsakes my mind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forsakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
