All 8 Uses of
forsake
in
Silas Marner
- Such colloquies have occupied many a pair of pale-faced weavers, whose unnurtured souls have been like young winged things, fluttering forsaken in the twilight.†
Chpt 1.1
- Let him forsake a decent craft that he may pursue the gentilities of a profession to which nature never called him, and his religion will infallibly be the worship of blessed Chance, which he will believe in as the mighty creator of success.†
Chpt 1.9
- And yet he was not utterly forsaken in his trouble.†
Chpt 1.10
- "Ah, if there's good anywhere, we've need of it," repeated Dolly, who did not lightly forsake a serviceable phrase.†
Chpt 1.10
- As for the child, he would see that it was cared for: he would never forsake it; he would do everything but own it.†
Chpt 1.13
- With that last thought Nancy roused herself from her reverie, and turned her eyes again towards the forsaken page.†
Chpt 2.17
- It had been forsaken longer than she imagined, for she was presently surprised by the appearance of the servant with the tea-things.†
Chpt 2.17
- I might come to think I was forsaken again, and lose the feeling that God was good to me.
Chpt 2.19 *forsaken = abandoned or given up on
Definition:
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(forsake) to abandon or give up on -- such as someone who needs you, or an idea, or a place