All 6 Uses
forfeit
in
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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- My chief, let me tell you, sir, is forfeited, like every honest man in Scotland.†
Chpt 9 *
- At that period (so soon after the forty-five) there were many exiled gentlemen coming back at the peril of their lives, either to see their friends or to collect a little money; and as for the Highland chiefs that had been forfeited, it was a common matter of talk how their tenants would stint themselves to send them money, and their clansmen outface the soldiery to get it in, and run the gauntlet of our great navy to carry it across.†
Chpt 9
- All this I had, of course, heard tell of; and now I had a man under my eyes whose life was forfeit on all these counts and upon one more, for he was not only a rebel and a smuggler of rents, but had taken service with King Louis of France.†
Chpt 9
- His life is forfeit already; he would boggle at naething; and maybe, if a tenant-body was to hang back he would get a dirk in his wame.†
Chpt 16
- Disputes were brought to him in his hiding-hole to be decided; and the men of his country, who would have snapped their fingers at the Court of Session, laid aside revenge and paid down money at the bare word of this forfeited and hunted outlaw.†
Chpt 23
- I must suppose the sentry had been sleeping, so that had we tried, we might have passed unseen; but he was awake now, and the chance forfeited.†
Chpt 26
Definitions:
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(1)
(forfeit) to lose or surrender something -- often as a penalty
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, forfeit is used as a noun to reference that which was lost or surrendered.