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Heaven forfend that change in any shape, whether of embellishment or of decay, should fall upon that cottage!

God forfend that she should come home to-night and find you here!

Unless they actually set fire to the steeple, which Heaven forfend, we can laugh at them.

Is it not rather the blind brute instinct of self-protection, forfend what may?

Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a "tendency to progression," "adaptations from the slow willing of animals," etc.!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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