The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear. From LearnThat.org. [onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/forbear]
Besides, this will teach him to forbear, which is an habit of greatest use for health of body and mind too. From Wordnik.com. [Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 11-20] Reference
If they thought it of value, they were to pay him accordingly; if not, they were to "forbear" -- that is, to give nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
I wept for a dear warrior once; and did the sword forbear so just a heart?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
Applying the rule of thumb to the obscure word "forbear," how many reasons are there for the FCC to reject the deregulation petitions?. From Wordnik.com. [Art Brodsky: Bad FCC Decision Could Cost Consumers Billions] Reference
In Jehovah's name forbear; "cried a shrill, but clear and melodious voice. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
Could she speak pleasantly to her aunt? could she even look pleasantly at her? could she "forbear" all unkindness, even in thought?. From Wordnik.com. [Melbourne House] Reference
Yet hold — one little word forbear!. From Wordnik.com. [Fugitive Pieces] Reference
Sparks was judiciously careful to forbear all mention. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
To bear with them, and to forbear to do them any wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Highness, it will not be possible to forbear supplicating His. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Again Thode obeyed, but he could not forbear a further query. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
The man, surprised in his turn, could not forbear saying to him. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
For shame, forbear; let them despair that dwell where there is no. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Doth the dove forbear to come to thee with a leaf in her bill as before?. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
It was so much like the landlady's story, I could not forbear relating it to her. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
It would be easy to fill a volume with such narratives as the above, but we forbear. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Therefore I forbear mentioning even the names of the grantees of which I was informed. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
My report is already so long, that I must forbear mentioning acts of individual merit. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Sometimes she longed to ask him to forbear, -- to say to him: "Do not protest too much.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
You will forbear that advantage, and will consent to postpone our trial to another time? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"Oh, forbear, forbear, it is Isabel you are describing," said Mary, shrinking away from him. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death, forbear not to deliver. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
I cannot forbear giving here one incident illustrating how they were kept during those early days. From Wordnik.com. [How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time] Reference
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