He would not render himself more ridiculous by forsaking his own duties and avocations for the care of the household, the kitchen, and the nursery, than she would by abandoning these for the public employments of men.
Did she not love her children passionately; and were not her very faults, bad as they were, caused by the one false step--the forsaking her early love?
You have never seen him you love, deserting, forsaking you for another.
Before forsaking the shadow of the copse, he cast a glance towards the sky, and at the moon sailing supremely over it.
Having become satisfied of this, Zeb looked around into the glade--for a time forsaking the footsteps of the pedestrian.
Both seemed equally intent on departure--alike resolved on forsaking the spot, that had witnessed the desolation of their hearts.
Cases of frost-bite were numerous--a few only in the 28th--whilst many men who had been bravely hanging on to duty now found their last ounce of vitality forsaking them and were impelled to parade sick.
It is probable that the fact of Adolay being capable of forsaking her parents in such a way tended to increase the grief occasioned by her loss.
It must have been a terrible blow to the poor father, all the more that he was ignorant at the time of the girl's motive for forsaking her home.
We cannot swerve from truth, we cannot violate justice, we cannot let go our integrity, without forsaking Him.
Guided by it, the king was steadfast and unmoveable: Forsaking it, he became one of the chief of sinners; he sullied one of the fairest names.
I am at rest, I know you are not forsaking yourself, and so you are still with me.
His mother said in a low tone to Eric on taking leave,-- "You are forsaking me.
The man who leaves the ranks of the citizens is a deserter, an apostate, I will not say a traitor and a fool also, for forsaking the conquering banner of the people.
While Juventus is on his way to "hear a preaching," Hypocrisy encounters him, argues with him against forsaking the traditions of his fathers, and diverts him from his purpose.
Forsaking eternal virtue, how couldst thou follow the counsels of Duryodhana and Karna and Sakuni?
And that illustrious warrior then fled, forsaking the battle, borne away by his fleet steeds.
There is a confession, especially that fostered by the habit of confessing to priests, which is unaccompanied by any forsaking of the evil, or any departing from iniquity in general.
It is a sure sign that one is forsaking the law when one ceases to contend with the wicked and begins to praise them.
Victory for us in all the good fight of life depends on our cleaving to Him, and forsaking all other.
We hear in Ruth's words also that forsaking of all things which is an essential of all true religion.
The first requirement is to come back to the Lord 'with the whole heart,' and that return is to be practically exhibited in the completeforsaking of Baal and the Ashtoreths.
Oh, let me at last have done with it, and the merciful God save me from departing from Him, and committing that horrible crime of forsaking the fountain of living waters, and hewing out to myself broken cisterns.
Know then, and see that evil and bitter is thy forsaking of Iahweh thy God, and thine having no dread of Me!
Know then, and see that evil and bitter is thy forsaking Iahvah thy God, and thine having no dread of Me, saith the Lord Iahvah Sabaoth (vv.
It was all Israel's own doing; forsaking his God, he had forfeited the Divine protection.
This forsaking of all worldly comfort for the hard life of the desert was proof of the sincerity of Israel's early love.
Is not this what (the thing that) thy forsaking Iahvah thy God brought about for thee, at the time He was guiding thee in the way?
If he shows no inclination to wash away the dishonour with which he has stained my name, by forsaking his country's flag on land and sea for the sake of a wretched woman, I will cast him off for ever.
This is a most solemn and awful appeal to the consciences of those who, forsaking the fountain of salvation, venture to build their hopes of pardon upon some other foundation than Jesus Christ, the Rock of Ages.
Coming to Christ is attended with an honest and sincere forsaking of all for him.
Hell and the eclipsings of the Divine smiles of God were both upon Him at once; the devils assailing of Him, and God forsaking of Him, and all at once!
His men were forsaking him in troops and resistance to his foes became impossible.
As sin is forsaking God, so the commencement of a better life must consist in a return to Him.
Why were these people so blindly infatuated that they would be perpetually forsaking the living waters, and hewing out to themselves broken cisterns that could hold no water?
Soon forsaking it, they continue on down the creek.
It is the fourth day after forsaking the couch among the shin oaks, and the two fugitives are still travelling upon the Llano Estacado.
The strange scenes, things, thoughts, and fancies are weaving weird spells around him; and once more he begins to think that his senses have either forsaken or are forsaking him.
He sees what he has been expecting, what he beheld in fancy throughout his long, delirious dream--the fair form and beautiful face that so much interested him, even in that hour when life seemed to beforsaking him.
The Marchesa admitted the forsaking of all in the world for a great love--except the child that a woman had borne into the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forsaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cessation; defection; desuetude; disuse; evacuation; jettison; leaving; withdrawal
