All 13 Uses of
forsake
in
The Mill on the Floss
- A conspicuous quality in the Dodson character was its genuineness; its vices and virtues alike were phases of a proud honest egoism, which had a hearty dislike to whatever made against its own credit and interest, and would be frankly hard of speech to inconvenient "kin," but would never forsake or ignore them,—would not let them want bread, but only require them to eat it with bitter herbs.†
Chpt 4.1
- The voice pierced through Maggie like a sword; there was another sadness besides her own, and she had been thinking of turning her back on it and forsaking it.†
Chpt 4.3
- At last Maggie's eyes glanced down on the books that lay on the window-shelf, and she half forsook her reverie to turn over listlessly the leaves of the "Portrait Gallery," but she soon pushed this aside to examine the little row of books tied together with string.†
Chpt 4.3
- I have often said unto thee, and now again I say the same, Forsake thyself, resign thyself, and thou shalt enjoy much inward peace….†
Chpt 4.3
- But the severe monotonous warning came again and again,—that she was losing the simplicity and clearness of her life by admitting a ground of concealment; and that, by forsaking the simple rule of renunciation, she was throwing herself under the seductive guidance of illimitable wants.†
Chpt 5.3
- If the blond girl were forsaken, I should like her best.†
Chpt 5.4 *
- If Wakem were to meet him then, Mr. Tulliver would look straight at him, and the rascal would perhaps be forsaken a little by his cool, domineering impudence.†
Chpt 5.7
- I don't know the opera, but it appears the tenor is telling the heroine that he shall always love her though she may forsake him.†
Chpt 6.7
- He was given to me that I might make his lot less hard; and I have forsaken him.†
Chpt 6.14
- More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.†
Chpt 7.1
- I could not bear to forsake the world in which you still lived and might need me; it was part of the faith I had vowed to you,—to wait and endure.†
Chpt 7.3
- Formerly they had not altogether delighted in the contemplated match with Lucy, but now their dread of a marriage between Stephen and Maggie added its momentum to their genuine pity and indignation on behalf of the gentle forsaken girl, in making them desire that he should return to her.†
Chpt 7.4
- No, she must wait; she must pray; the light that had forsaken her would come again; she should feel again what she had felt when she had fled away, under an inspiration strong enough to conquer agony,—to conquer love; she should feel again what she had felt when Lucy stood by her, when Philip's letter had stirred all the fibres that bound her to the calmer past.†
Chpt 7.5
Definition:
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(forsake) to abandon or give up on -- such as someone who needs you, or an idea, or a place