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  • Even cannibals wouldn't live in such a God-forsaken place.   (source)
    forsaken = abandoned
  • Here a poor prisoner, forsook by the world and friends, fretted his sorrowful life.   (source)
    forsook = abandoned or gave up on
  • And is it with a clear and certain mind that you forsake your husband and your children?   (source)
    forsake = abandon or give up on
  • Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes,   (source)
    forsakes = abandons (stops helping)
  • That the spirit of the Lord cannot dwell in an unclean vessel, and that no vessel is clean when it forsakes God and relies on man.†   (source)
  • Alone in the Chamber of Secrets, forsaken by his friends, defeated at last by the Dark Lord he so unwisely challenged.†   (source)
  • Long captivated by the writing of Leo Tolstoy, McCandless particularly admired how the great novelist had forsaken a life of wealth and privilege to wander among the destitute.†   (source)
  • He was not the worthless, broken, forsaken man that the Bird had striven to make of him.†   (source)
  • Again and again he dreamed of the anguish and the isolation on the forsaken hill.†   (source)
  • She thinks, Perhaps I've been forsaken.†   (source)
  • He'd forsaken the regular training schedule, instead teaching them playful acts with no point and no purpose.†   (source)
  • By now, the Bolsheviks had presumably built new hospitals—modern, bright, and clean—and this old facility had been left behind as some sort of clinic for veterans, the homeless, and the otherwise forsaken.†   (source)
  • But choosing a different faction means I forsake my family.†   (source)
  • If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt.†   (source)
  • Incredibly, it was in that barren and forsaken suzerain between Spain and France, shivering in his stone cell, wanting only to die, that Silas had been saved.†   (source)
  • But as soon as they'd continued around the bend and left behind only the white etchings of their skates in the ice, the thrill would fade, and he'd tow Jutta back to Children's House feeling lonely and forsaken and more trapped in his life than before.†   (source)
  • After the sinking of the Canton there were parts of men floating around for miles that even the sharks had forsaken.†   (source)
  • He whispered in my ear, "God will never leave you or forsake you."†   (source)
  • Canon Mackie read heavily from Matthew: how they mocked Jesus, how they spit on him, how he cried, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"†   (source)
  • My lord Hand, if these good folk believe that Ser Gregor has forsaken his holy vows for plunder and rape, let them go to his liege lord and make their complaint.†   (source)
  • After all, it's his fault I'm in this forsaken mess.†   (source)
  • "Blessed is he who forsakes his father and his mother for my sake," he intoned.†   (source)
  • This hobby, Mahmoud insisted, was taking them away from their schoolwork, and if they forsook their education for pigeons, he would be stuck with not only the birds but two illiterate sons.†   (source)
  • In the abandoned ornamental garden, Rahel, watched by lolling dwarfs and a forsaken cherub, squatted by the stagnant pond and watched toads hop from stone to scummy stone.†   (source)
  • At one o'clock Jan will come for half an hour to check on us poor forsaken souls, like a zookeeper.†   (source)
  • One condition for my release is that I'll continue under his care, although it will have to be by phone because he'd never live in a forsaken place like 12, and I'm confined there until further notice.†   (source)
  • Forsaking their hiding, the Urgals stood and released a stream of black arrows.†   (source)
  • Bad enough I got stationed in this god-forsaken oasis—as if Rome needs an entire legion to guard some date farms!†   (source)
  • How gloomy it was-forsaken and without the light of the powerful crystal.†   (source)
  • All her strength seemed to have forsaken her, as if the next gust of wind might blow her away.†   (source)
  • Don't forget, the story didn't end in his sense of forsakenness.†   (source)
  • The Code demanded a forsaking of nuclear weapons and strategic bombing campaigns in all but the most extreme cases but, more than that, it demanded a return to Old Earth medieval concepts of set battles between small, professional forces at a mutually agreed upon time in a place where destruction of public and private property would be kept to a minimum.†   (source)
  • Most worrisome of all were his hips, which had mostly forsaken him.†   (source)
  • She would not tell me, but when I guessed, "Another woman?" she sighed, and then said, "Ay, Virgencita, why have you forsaken me?"†   (source)
  • Who had forsaken everything to come to this country, to make a better life, only to die here?†   (source)
  • For all I may be forsaking, he's giving up a good deal more: the possibility of having more wives than one, for instance.†   (source)
  • Nadia passed her family's home once on purpose, not to speak with them, just to see from the outside if they were there and well, but the home she had forsaken looked deserted, with no sign of inhabitants or life.†   (source)
  • I found myself at home there, again forsaking dreams of ethereal simplicity for what another's gentle insistence had given me, because the air was sweet like the air of our courtyard in the Rue Royale, and all was alive with a shocking profusion of gas light that rendered even the ornate lofty ceilings devoid of shadows.†   (source)
  • During the years when Tres Marias had been abandoned, Pedro Segundo had naturally assumed command of the small tribe that had survived in these forsaken lands.†   (source)
  • But neither had He forsaken me.†   (source)
  • We've forsaken those girls.†   (source)
  • He promised to never leave you, to never forsake you, to be with you forever.†   (source)
  • At sixty-one, when the first of Brittain's group succumbs, Ellerby breaks the code of silence to ask Brittain's Lord why he has forsaken them, but after that the only sounds to be heard are the constant churning of the water interrupted by the slap of feet and calves on eachflip turn, the shrill blast of Lemry's whistle, and the urgent whine of eleven wheezing, oxygen-deprived idiots sucking every last molecule of breathable air out of the chlorine-filled atmosphere.†   (source)
  • He had encouraged them to embrace that brotherhood and find strength in it, but to never, ever forsake the importance of family.†   (source)
  • "He will never leave me or forsake me," Cedric sang, his voice rising above the others.†   (source)
  • As they took the first steps on this the sun forsook the valley at last, and lingered only on the mountain top where was that Palace of Pleasure into which He and She had vanished, before which the strange chariot waited.†   (source)
  • Of all the people on this forsaken planet, I thought my friends of over a year would be willing to help me get them out.†   (source)
  • Now Bostonians, too, faced the prospect of forsaking lifelong associations and treasured belongings—indeed, their very homeland and entire way of life.†   (source)
  • She wept, wept until blinded by her tears, and took the rabbit home with the feeling that she was nearly at her goal, the place where she wanted to be and would never forsake.†   (source)
  • The people inside had forsaken their own distress for a little while.†   (source)
  • With the water turned off the fountain looked forsaken.†   (source)
  • I felt so lost and forsaken.†   (source)
  • On the way we stopped in Austin to visit with some of what seemed to be a growing gaggle of relatives who had also forsaken their native land for America.†   (source)
  • "We have been imprisoned in this forsaken forest," Teeleh said.†   (source)
  • If you ever discovered my identity and addressed me by name, I would forsake eternal life.†   (source)
  • Even in this skies-forsaken place, I can point unfailingly to where the sun rises and where it sets, to the Empire's capital in the north, Antium, and to Navium, its main port due south.†   (source)
  • If he felt anything, it was that he was falling through space, as all thieves fall when their god forsakes them.†   (source)
  • Mary wouldn't bail me out after I kilt that God-forsaken snake, you know.†   (source)
  • So I lay alone feeling irrationally forsaken and stared into the dark, more exhausted than I had ever been and yet unable now to sleep, listening to the others shift and moan in the grip of nightmares that could not have equalled the one we would likely wake to.†   (source)
  • At the moment, it seemed worse than being forsaken by God.†   (source)
  • I knew you wouldn't forsake me just when I need you most.†   (source)
  • The only spot within this forsaken land that also belongs to the realms, to the Order.†   (source)
  • That's some consolation for the forsaken.†   (source)
  • Only after all opportunity is forsaken does devotion come alive.†   (source)
  • I didn't know that when you swore to forsake all others, it didn't include blast furnaces.†   (source)
  • So long as conscionable and caring people are around, so long as they are not muted or exiled, so long as they remain alert in thought and action, there is a chance for contagions of the right stuff, whereby democracy becomes no longer a choice of lesser evils, whereby the right to vote is not betrayed by staying away from the polls, whereby the freedoms of speech, assembly, religion, and dissent are never forsaken.†   (source)
  • Because of this, my sisters-in-law and I had forsaken many of the old chants we had grown up with.†   (source)
  • He who forsook the House of Daermon N'a'shezbaernon.†   (source)
  • Though the forest had begun to seem claustrophobic, he was now reluctant to forsake the crowding greenery for the revelation that lay beyond.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Pender is, ah, a pious woman, and she believes that now that we have invaded Pennsylvania we are in the wrong, and God has forsaken us-you know how these people reason, sir-and she says she cannot pray for him.†   (source)
  • She is most comely, though I say that not to describe her sexual attraction, which in this forsaken place and to these men any girl or woman would possess, even that annoying shrew Matsui-san.†   (source)
  • An Illinois farm boy whose parents had opposed his enlistment asked them tartly: "Should We the youngest and brightest nation of all the earth bow to traters and forsake the graves of our Fathers?"†   (source)
  • Perhaps disappointed, since all our sons have forsaken the land.†   (source)
  • Forsaking her training, Natalie actively searched for watchers among the faces of her fellow passengers, hoping Mikhail might be among them.†   (source)
  • You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.†   (source)
  • Wipe away his tears, he'll feel less forsaken.†   (source)
  • His intellect often wars with his emotions, his will with his desires ....his ideals are at odds with his environment, and if he follows them, he knows keenly the loss of that which was old-but if he does not follow them, he feels the pain of having forsaken a new and noble dream.†   (source)
  • MORE Well ....I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties ....they lead their country by a short route to chaos.†   (source)
  • Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me?†   (source)
  • She stares about the room with frightened, forsaken eyes and whispers to herself.†   (source)
  • My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?†   (source)
  • Thus had her mother lived and died; and she had often been brought low, but she had never been forsaken.†   (source)
  • Isn't there anything in this God-forsaken city?†   (source)
  • Who would believe it, in this baked, god-forsaken spot!†   (source)
  • With only twelve, the boldest and the best,
    I seek the adventure, and forsake the rest.   (source)
    forsake = abandon
  • Some Christians still debate the differences found in the New Testament, where Christ declared "I and my Father are one," but also prayed on the cross, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani" (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)   (source)
    forsaken = abandoned
  • I might come to think I was forsaken again, and lose the feeling that God was good to me.   (source)
    forsaken = abandoned or given up on
  • You will forsake all claim to your brother's inheritance and start north before evenfall.†   (source)
    forsake = abandon or give up on
  • I have no lands nor wife to forsake, and who'd care if I did?†   (source)
  • "Why would you forsake the gods of your father and your House?" wondered Ser Jaremy Rykker.†   (source)
  • Silas could not believe that God had forsaken him.†   (source)
  • "You are forsaking me," my mother cried afresh.†   (source)
  • Oh, what terror he had felt in the Sistine Chapel, wondering if God had forsaken him!†   (source)
  • Now wait, I thought you left him—you know—'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?'†   (source)
  • Forsaking her is something he might be imagined as doing.†   (source)
  • Do you think I keep track of the mangy louts in this forsaken place?†   (source)
  • She saw one of the Forsaken warriors—a woman—fall back, throat torn out, arms still twitching.†   (source)
  • God has not forsaken me, and He never will.†   (source)
  • The blasts have stripped many shop signs off their brackets, and the gibbets hang forsaken.†   (source)
  • It's an outworn word, forsaken, but it describes her plight exactly.†   (source)
  • "We are not forsaking you, mama," Andrew said.†   (source)
  • You knew about them, and you knew there were Forsaken in this house, and you didn't notify them?†   (source)
  • He stepped over the dead Forsaken, and glanced over his shoulder at her.†   (source)
  • Besides, the Forsaken won't be Forsaken much longer.†   (source)
  • If you're afraid of a few Forsaken, by all means stay home," he said softly.†   (source)
  • You could have turned her into a Forsaken.†   (source)
  • With his free hand he held out the long thin dagger he had killed the Forsaken with.†   (source)
  • Just the existence of Forsaken is a crime against the Covenant—†   (source)
  • Still behind Luke, Clary didn't even see the first of the Forsaken as they struck.†   (source)
  • The Forsaken's hand dangled limply, but it kept coming on toward them, evincing no sign of pain.†   (source)
  • Alec, the last time I was home, it was infested with Forsaken.†   (source)
  • So we went in expecting to fight a few Forsaken.†   (source)
  • She landed with her front paws against the Forsaken's chest, knocking it to the ground.†   (source)
  • Especially if we slaughter a few Forsaken while we do it.†   (source)
  • Our Forsaken can hold off the wolf-men for only so—" Seeing Clary, he broke off midsentence.†   (source)
  • Sunlight's fatal to demons, but it won't hurt the Forsaken.†   (source)
  • The Forsaken are loyal to the one who Marked them, and they're fierce killers.†   (source)
  • He has brought his Forsaken to seek the Mortal Cup.†   (source)
  • A third that Spain will forsake France and America.†   (source)
  • Yet we that remain cannot forsake our companions while we have strength left.†   (source)
  • The Lannisters think I am done and beaten, and my sworn lords have forsaken me, near every one.†   (source)
  • Why else would I have forsaken all my honor, but for love?†   (source)
  • No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.†   (source)
  • I command the greatest army that has ever marched on the frozen steppes of this forsaken land!†   (source)
  • It is time for all anointed knights to forsake their worldly masters and defend our Holy Faith.†   (source)
  • Forsaken—probably a few dozen of them.†   (source)
  • It is certainly a troll-hole, but it seems to have been long forsaken.†   (source)
  • There must be some law and order even in this God-forsaken island.†   (source)
  • It appeared lonely and forsaken, running down to empty ruins in the mist.†   (source)
  • Had that doddering old worm forsaken the lion for the rose?†   (source)
  • And there was a Forsaken just behind you; you must not have seen him, but Jace did.†   (source)
  • Rest yourself in peace for the righteous are not forsaken.†   (source)
  • How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?†   (source)
  • 'But you can't leave poor old Bill behind in this forsaken place, Mr. Gandalf!†   (source)
  • Cold clammy winter still held sway in this forsaken country.†   (source)
  • His father had forsaken him, his uncles, his sister, even that wretched creature Reek.†   (source)
  • The Lord has forsaken us: she said, and shut her eyes.†   (source)
  • With that thought, I forsook the chase, and passed swiftly to Gondor.†   (source)
  • While he was there, we were attacked by Forsaken.†   (source)
  • The Lightwoods— The hellsmoke muted my ability to fight the Forsaken effectively.†   (source)
  • And even so he would never have just forsaken it, or cast it aside.†   (source)
  • Because teenagers are more lightly Marked, it takes them longer to become Forsaken.†   (source)
  • Even I can't fight off a hundred Forsaken.†   (source)
  • It had, wrapped up inside it, a sense of forsaken beauty, grand achievement.†   (source)
  • Forsaken.†   (source)
  • God, why hast thou forsaken me?†   (source)
  • In the end, he forsook the front door entirely and went to the side of the house, where he slipped into the kitchen and, to his dismay, saw Elain knitting on one side of the table, speaking to Katrina, who was opposite her.†   (source)
  • As the hours of the evening pass he will grow distracted, anxious to return to his room, to be alone, to read the book he had once forsaken, has abandoned until now.†   (source)
  • Only when she saw the steep stairway disappearing into a bottomless black hole did her courage forsake her for a moment.†   (source)
  • The author describes a man who has given away a small fortune, forsaken a loving family, abandoned his car, watch and map and burned the last of his money before traipsing off into the 'wilderness' west of Healy.†   (source)
  • Whatever our fate in Teirm, I will stand firm with those who trusted me enough to forsake their homes upon my word.†   (source)
  • Once we have it, once every Silver in this forsaken country is watching, we need something to show them.†   (source)
  • Like Hamlet's father roaming the ramparts of Elsinore after the midnight watch ...Or like Akaky Akakievich, that forsaken spirit of Gogol's who in the wee hours haunted the Kalinkin Bridge in search of his stolen coat ... Why is it that so many ghosts prefer to travel the halls of night?†   (source)
  • Out in the forsaken city, every other structure, it seems, is burning or collapsing, but here in front of him is the inverse in miniature: the city remains, but the house he occupies is gone.†   (source)
  • Saphira's arguments whirled around in Eragon's head, but he shrank from the idea of forsaking Palancar Valley; it was his home.†   (source)
  • God has not forsaken me.†   (source)
  • He was more pleased than upset by her declaration; he knew that even if everyone else in Carvahall were to forsake the cause or die, Birgit would still help him to hunt the Ra'zac.†   (source)
  • Unless Galbatorix forsakes his lair in Uru'baen, the greatest danger you're likely to encounter during the Varden's campaign will come from fellow magicians.†   (source)
  • It was unlikely that they had forsaken the road, which was the easiest way out of the valley, for the wilderness.†   (source)
  • "They have forsaken their father," he spoke to the gentle rabbits which gathered around his feet, "they have left me.†   (source)
  • I felt him shiver next to me, and I saw him make the sign of the cross to ward off the evil of this forsaken ground.†   (source)
  • As if to emphasize her point, birds, deer, squirrels-red and gray-striped badgers, foxes, rabbits, wolves, frogs, toads, tortoises, and every other nearby animal forsook their hiding and began to rush madly about with a cacophony of yelps and cries.†   (source)
  • And when the dying Christ cried, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" the piercing words seemed to drive through to my heart and make me feel alone and lost in a dying universe.†   (source)
  • She couldn't see Gretel or the Forsaken who had killed her, only a mass of heaving bodies and flashing metal.†   (source)
  • "If you know about the Clave and the Forsaken," she said, "then maybe you know what happened to my mother?"†   (source)
  • There was a thudding sound, then a gurgling cry and a sound like ripping paper— Clary found herself wondering if the Forsaken were edible.†   (source)
  • Probably just the Forsaken, and they might not even bother us unless we try getting into the upstairs apartment.†   (source)
  • The wolves had size and speed on their side, but the Forsaken moved with a grim inevitability and were surprisingly hard to kill.†   (source)
  • More Forsaken," replied Dorothea with a cheerfulness that, Clary felt, didn't really fit the circumstances.†   (source)
  • This place will be full of Forsaken.†   (source)
  • A fierce whine of rage rose from Gretel's throat, but the Forsaken was stronger; it flung her aside like a rag doll and rolled to its feet.†   (source)
  • Jace spoke calmly enough, but he was on alert now, the way he had been in the apartment before they'd found the Forsaken.†   (source)
  • We can handle a couple of Forsaken.†   (source)
  • With a shout Luke swung his blade at the Forsaken's throat— "I told you not to look," Alaric growled, turning so that her line of sight was blocked by his looming bulk.†   (source)
  • The Forsaken will take you all.†   (source)
  • Distracted, Clary hardly noticed the Forsaken that broke through the protective circle, until it loomed up in front of her, as if it had sprung up from the grass at her feet.†   (source)
  • The Forsaken seized up its knife, which had fallen into the blood-wet grass, and sank it into Gretel's back, again and again as she clawed and struggled and finally collapsed, the light in her silvery eyes fading into darkness.†   (source)
  • She could see them now, beyond the ring of wolves, the scene lit to brilliance by floodlights and the shimmering glow of Manhattan: dozens of Forsaken, their skin corpse-pale in the moonlight, seared by lesionlike runes.†   (source)
  • They're Forsaken.†   (source)
  • Forsaken warriors?†   (source)
  • Forsaken.†   (source)
  • Forsaken warriors.†   (source)
  • 6 — Forsaken .†   (source)
  • The Forsaken are evil.†   (source)
  • Forsaken.†   (source)
  • Or that you can get yourself through the Seelie Court safely on your own or, after that, through some forsaken demon realm where you have to find Sebastian—†   (source)
  • Enough to forsake plans and factions.†   (source)
  • They are often mistaken for Amazons, but the Hunters forsake the company of men in exchange for almost endless life.†   (source)
  • I will forsake supper, I believe.†   (source)
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