This set her into a flame: I wish I had forborne it. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Has he forborne to tell me any calamity that there is?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
Not that vengeance was forborne; it was only postponed. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
The pruning in the wild gardens of nature is never forborne. From Wordnik.com. [Uncollected Prose] Reference
She is glad of a respite, Letitia having forborne to press the question. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Had they not borne and forborne beyond all precedent known in that House?. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
He had forborne retaliation, when retaliation would have been most sweet. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
Camilla, distressed, hung her head, and would have forborne making any answer. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
The child thought, more than once that he was moved: and had forborne to speak. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
But there was so much that was plainly obvious and which he had forborne to mention. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Crisis]
I have forborne talking with Alice on the subject that haunts me in spite of myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The Evil One had, he thought, for the time at least, forborne to press his advantage. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference
I have forborne until, in my belief, further forbearance would lead to disastrous results. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
I have so far forborne making nominations to fill these vacancies for reasons which I will now state. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
And I were fain to reward her in that she hath forborne to grudge against thee and to bear thee enmity. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
Hence she is termed by the ancients Theotokos and Dei genetrix; which last, at least, I wish had been forborne. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
'Nothing,' said I, 'could have paralleled the princess's good fortune and mine had I forborne to break the talisman.'. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights] Reference
The warrant for procedence against them on that hand is plain and evident: certainly this way no error is to be forborne. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Plutina had forborne any account of this trouble to her lover, lest, by bad blood between the two men, a worse thing befall. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
On one of those ugly nights, which we have faintly hinted at, but forborne to picture forth, the minister started from his chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
Until this dauntless worldling came in and broke the spell, and lifted the latch, we too have forborne to enter into that sad chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
And the same objection is pressed by others, with instances of consequences which, for many reasons, I heartily wish had been forborne. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
For surely, if he can indict Ctesiphon on my account, he would not have forborne to indict me myself had he thought he could convict me. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
You know what the name is which appears on the register of my marriage, and yet you have forborne to speak of it, from the fear of distressing me. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
Audley Egerton's warning against any indiscreet confidence, though he had forborne to mention a more recent and direct renewal of the same caution. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
In this unusual agitation we have forborne from taking part in any controversy between foreign states and between parties or factions in such states. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
He had refrained from making inquiries, and Amy had forborne to tell him the state of things, lest it should bring him to a dead stop in his writing. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious. From Wordnik.com. [An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
As I had long forborne to encourage him with hopes that hung on threads, I made no other comment on this information than that I supposed he would see her soon. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield] Reference
Doctors, whose names only are known, but who were probably men of learning, have written on these salutary springs, and modern flippancy has at present forborne them. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
While they were feverishly searching every corner for the candlesticks he had forborne from taking part, but now they were elsewhere he might find something of interest there. From Wordnik.com. [A Rare Benedictine]
To herself, Mrs. Berlinton said, the evil of this transaction had been over, while yet it was unknown; she had heard it, therefore, in silence, and forborne unavailing reproach. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Of this tenderness shown to Milton the curiosity of mankind has not forborne to inquire the reason. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
I have forborne, however, attracting attention to the deviations from the original text, either in Nissen or Jahn. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference
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