All 16 Uses
forsake
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Adam Bede
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- 'My God, my God!' he cries, 'why hast Thou forsaken me?'†
Chpt 2 *forsaken = abandoned or given up on
- He'll never turn round and knock down his own work, and forsake them as it's been the labour of his life to stand by.†
Chpt 4forsake = abandon or give up on
- Nay, dear aunt, you never heard me say that all people are called to forsake their work and their families.†
Chpt 6
- The pencil is conscious of a delightful facility in drawing a griffin—the longer the claws, and the larger the wings, the better; but that marvellous facility which we mistook for genius is apt to forsake us when we want to draw a real unexaggerated lion.†
Chpt 17
- "You didn't frighten her, I hope," said the mother, "else she'll forsake it."†
Chpt 18
- The sound of any man's footstep would have affected her just in the same way—she would have FELT it might be Arthur before she had time to see, and the blood that forsook her cheek in the agitation of that momentary feeling would have rushed back again at the sight of any one else just as much as at the sight of Adam.†
Chpt 20forsook = abandoned or gave up on
- All screening self-excuse, which rarely falls quite away while others respect us, forsook him for an instant, and he stood face to face with the first great irrevocable evil he had ever committed.†
Chpt 27
- Her little plans and preconcerted speeches had all forsaken her, like an ill-learnt lesson, under the terrible agitation produced by Adam's words.†
Chpt 30forsaken = abandoned or given up on
- The calm patience with which he had once waited for Hetty's love, content only with her presence and the thought of the future, had forsaken him since that terrible shock nearly three months ago.†
Chpt 34
- With that thought, and before she had time to remember any reasons why it could not be true, came a new sense of forsakenness and disappointment.†
Chpt 34
- Mr. Irwine, as if all self-control had forsaken him, grasped Adam's arm, which lay on the table, and, clutching it tightly like a man in pain, said, with pale lips and a low hurried voice, "No, Adam, no—don't say it, for God's sake!"†
Chpt 39forsaken = abandoned or given up on
- He is gone back to his home now, and the poor sinner is forsaken of all.†
Chpt 45
- Thou hast known the depths of all sorrow: thou hast entered that black darkness where God is not, and hast uttered the cry of the forsaken.†
Chpt 45
- There was a trembling in her clear voice as she put her hand into his and said, "Be comforted, Adam Bede, the Lord has not forsaken her."†
Chpt 46
- And Dinah was so bound up with the sad memories of his first passion that he was not forsaking them, but rather giving them a new sacredness by loving her.†
Chpt 51forsaking = abandoning or giving up on
- That life I have led is like a land I have trodden in blessedness since my childhood; and if I long for a moment to follow the voice which calls me to another land that I know not, I cannot but fear that my soul might hereafter yearn for that early blessedness which I had forsaken; and where doubt enters there is not perfect love.†
Chpt 52forsaken = abandoned or given up on
Definitions:
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(1)
(forsake) to abandon or give up on -- such as someone who needs you, or an idea, or a place
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)