forsook

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Here left the bird the cherry, and anon Forsook her bosom, and for more is gone, Making such speedy flights into the thick That she admir'd he went and came so quick.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

His searching eye glanced on her countenance, He coloured crimson deep, and the proud sneer Forsook his lip, and, like a lion tamed, He showed him gentlest where he least intended.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice

Thir Makers Image, answerd Michael, then Forsook them, when themselves they villifi'd To serve ungovern'd appetite, and took His Image whom they serv'd, a brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John

In time each little waif Forsook his foster-mother, The well born babe was Ralph— Your captain was the other!!!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

But I, the vessel still paced to and fro, Till, fever’d by the boist’rous waves, her sides Forsook the keel now left to float alone.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William