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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
  • 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)
  • He was not the worthless, broken, forsaken man that the Bird had striven to make of him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 ….†   (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 choosing a different faction means I forsake my family.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He whispered in my ear, "God will never leave you or forsake you."†   (source)
  • "Blessed is he who forsakes his father and his mother for my sake," he intoned.†   (source)
  • How gloomy it was-forsaken and without the light of the powerful crystal.†   (source)
  • After all, it's his fault I'm in this forsaken mess.†   (source)
  • Who had forsaken everything to come to this country, to make a better life, only to die here?†   (source)
  • I have no lands nor wife to forsake, and who'd care if I did?"†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • But neither had He forsaken me.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • All her strength seemed to have forsaken her, as if the next gust of wind might blow her away.†   (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)
  • "Don't forget, the story didn't end in his sense of forsakenness.†   (source)
  • Most worrisome of all were his hips, which had mostly forsaken him.†   (source)
  • After the sinking of the Canton there were parts of men floating around for miles that even the sharks had forsaken.†   (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)
  • She would not tell me, but when I guessed, "Another woman?" she sighed, and then said, "Ay, Virgencita, why have you forsaken me?"†   (source)
  • The people inside had forsaken their own distress for a little while.†   (source)
  • "We've forsaken those girls.†   (source)
  • Bad enough I got stationed in this god-forsaken oasis—as if Rome needs an entire legion to guard some date farms!†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Mary wouldn't bail me out after I kilt that God-forsaken snake, you know.†   (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)
  • He had encouraged them to embrace that brotherhood and find strength in it, but to never, ever forsake the importance of family.†   (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)
  • Because of this, my sisters-in-law and I had forsaken many of the old chants we had grown up with.†   (source)
  • "He will never leave me or forsake me," Cedric sang, his voice rising above the others.†   (source)
  • With the water turned off the fountain looked forsaken.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "We have been imprisoned in this forsaken forest," Teeleh said.†   (source)
  • "That's some consolation for the forsaken."†   (source)
  • "I knew you wouldn't forsake me just when I need you most."†   (source)
  • Now Bostonians, too, faced the prospect of forsaking lifelong associations and treasured belongings—indeed, their very homeland and entire way of life.†   (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)
  • At the moment, it seemed worse than being forsaken by God.†   (source)
  • If he felt anything, it was that he was falling through space, as all thieves fall when their god forsakes them.†   (source)
  • He promised to never leave you, to never forsake you, to be with you forever.†   (source)
  • If you ever discovered my identity and addressed me by name, I would forsake eternal life.†   (source)
  • I didn't know that when you swore to forsake all others, it didn't include blast furnaces.†   (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)
  • The only spot within this forsaken land that also belongs to the realms, to the Order.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Only after all opportunity is forsaken does devotion come alive.†   (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)
  • He who forsook the House of Daermon N'a'shezbaernon.†   (source)
  • I felt so lost and forsaken.†   (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)
  • Forsaking her training, Natalie actively searched for watchers among the faces of her fellow passengers, hoping Mikhail might be among them.†   (source)
  • Wipe away his tears, he'll feel less forsaken.†   (source)
  • It had, wrapped up inside it, a sense of forsaken beauty, grand achievement. and a feeling of power that was terrible and almost ultimate.†   (source)
  • Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me?†   (source)
  • My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?†   (source)
  • Perhaps disappointed, since all our sons have forsaken the land.†   (source)
  • She stares about the room with frightened, forsaken eyes and whispers to herself.†   (source)
  • Thus had her mother lived and died; and she had often been brought low, but she had never been forsaken.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Isn't there anything in this God-forsaken city?†   (source)
  • Who would believe it, in this baked, god-forsaken spot!†   (source)
  • 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
  • With only twelve, the boldest and the best,
    I seek the adventure, and forsake the rest.   (source)
    forsake = abandon
  • 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
  • God has not forsaken me, and He never will.†   (source)
  • Do you think I keep track of the mangy louts in this forsaken place?†   (source)
  • Forsaking her is something he might be imagined as doing.†   (source)
  • Silas could not believe that God had forsaken him.†   (source)
  • "Why would you forsake the gods of your father and your House?" wondered Ser Jaremy Rykker.†   (source)
  • Now wait, I thought you left him—you know—'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?†   (source)
  • Oh, what terror he had felt in the Sistine Chapel, wondering if God had forsaken him!†   (source)
  • The blasts have stripped many shop signs off their brackets, and the gibbets hang forsaken.†   (source)
  • She saw one of the Forsaken warriors—a woman—fall back, throat torn out, arms still twitching.†   (source)
  • You knew about them, and you knew there were Forsaken in this house, and you didn't notify them?†   (source)
  • It's an outworn word, forsaken, but it describes her plight exactly.†   (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—†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Yet we that remain cannot forsake our companions while we have strength left.†   (source)
  • No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other."†   (source)
  • And there was a Forsaken just behind you; you must not have seen him, but Jace did.†   (source)
  • There must be some law and order even in this God-forsaken island.†   (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)
  • It is certainly a troll-hole, but it seems to have been long forsaken.†   (source)
  • "You are forsaking me," my mother cried afresh.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "We are not forsaking you, mama," Andrew said.†   (source)
  • Rest yourself in peace for the righteous are not forsaken.†   (source)
  • 'But you can't leave poor old Bill behind in this forsaken place, Mr. Gandalf!†   (source)
  • Even I can't fight off a hundred Forsaken.†   (source)
  • The Lightwoods— The hellsmoke muted my ability to fight the Forsaken effectively.†   (source)
  • How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?†   (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)
  • Forsaken—probably a few dozen of them.†   (source)
  • And even so he would never have just forsaken it, or cast it aside.†   (source)
  • While he was there, we were attacked by Forsaken.†   (source)
  • Because teenagers are more lightly Marked, it takes them longer to become Forsaken.†   (source)
  • Forsaken.†   (source)
  • God, why hast thou forsaken me?†   (source)
  • Did you think the Clave wouldn't involve itself in this wild tale of Forsaken warriors and Portals and staged deaths?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Once we have it, once every Silver in this forsaken country is watching, we need something to show them.†   (source)
  • Only when she saw the steep stairway disappearing into a bottomless black hole did her courage forsake her for a moment.†   (source)
  • I tried to build an army of Forsaken; with the Cup, I could create an army of new Shadowhunters, but that will take years.†   (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)
  • Saphira's arguments whirled around in Eragon's head, but he shrank from the idea of forsaking Palancar Valley; it was his home.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Lucian's beasts shattered my army of Forsaken, and I had neither time nor inclination to create more.†   (source)
  • God has not forsaken me.†   (source)
  • It was unlikely that they had forsaken the road, which was the easiest way out of the valley, for the wilderness.†   (source)
  • Or the pathetic Forsaken.†   (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)
  • I will forsake supper, I believe.†   (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)
  • It was as if the melody had sprung out of the blackness of the night itself, like a wind, lonely and forsaken.†   (source)
  • They are often mistaken for Amazons, but the Hunters forsake the company of men in exchange for almost endless life.†   (source)
  • Enough to forsake plans and factions.†   (source)
  • Let Galbatorix and his allies beware, for we elves are about to forsake our forest, and we shall return in triumph, or never again.†   (source)
  • "Mother, don't forsake us.†   (source)
  • I will never forsake you.†   (source)
  • When we got the opportunity to talk in those first weeks, we did not talk about where we came from or what our sisters were like or how our fathers earned their bread; no, that was the world we had forsaken, that was the free zone outside the Gates of Legrand.†   (source)
  • Rearden, that evening, his coat collar raised, his hat slanted low over his eyes, the snow drifts rising to his knees, was tramping through an abandoned open-pit coal mine, in a forsaken corner of Pennsylvania, supervising the loading of pirated coal upon the trucks which he had provided.†   (source)
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