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1. forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he
2. Lieutenant Wheeler, and the men could scarce forbear a cheer
3. Whether they will hear, or whether they will indeed forbear
4. to him, are you made of the king's counsel? Forbear; why should you be struck? Then the prophet restrained, and said, I know that
5. Babylon, forbear: See, all the land is before you: where it seems good and convenient for you to go, in there go
6. 30 Yet many years did you forbear them, and testified against them by
7. they will hear, or whether they will forbear, for they are a rebellious house, yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them
8. who forbears, let him forbear, for they are a rebellious house
9. 12 And I said to them, if you think well, give me my price; and if not, forbear
10. Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to show his anger according to judgment:
11. 5 If you see the ass of him that hates you lying under his burden, and would forbear to help him, you shall surely help with him
12. wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him
13. Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgment:
14. Exo 23:5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him
15. 9 How long shall I forbear them into whom I have done so much good? 10 Many kings have I destroyed for their sakes; Pharaoh with his servants and all his power have I struck down
16. 24 Which thing when Mattathias saw he was inflamed with zeal and his reins trembled neither could he forbear to show his anger according to judgment: what for he ran and killed him on the altar
17. 24 He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand commanding him to kill all those who were in their best age and to sell the women and the younger sort: 25 Who coming to Jerusalem and pretending peace did forbear till the holy day of the Sabbath when taking the Jews keeping holy day he commanded his men to arm themselves
18. no longer could he wait, forbear
19. than the mortals' ability to forbear,
20. did they eternally forbear
21. hath caused all gifted to forbear
22. people can forbear crying out in the
23. For any good we hear, a thousand evils we must forbear
24. It is true he remarked one day that he found life too short for anything but the best--'That is why,' he added, unable to forbear from wit, 'I only drink Pilsner
25. Forbare: Past tense of forbear
26. Forbore: Past tense of forbear
27. I like words to be hard--such were Bonamy's views, and they won him the hostility of those whose taste is all for the fresh growths of the morning, who throw up the window, and find the poppies spread in the sun, and can't forbear a shout of jubilation at the astonishing fertility of English literature
28. the wall, spit in my face, with various refinements on barbarity that I forbear to enumerate, though they were all acted over again by the servant, with additional
29. property of their husbands, I forbear to animadvert
30. Elinor's heart thanked her for such kindness towards Edward, though she could not forbear smiling at the form of it
31. Whatever befalls me I cannot forbear asking, `Why you
32. At such moments I forbear to press the holy songs; but there are many sweet and comfortable periods of satisfactory communication, when the ears of the savages are astounded with the upliftings of our voices
33. Franz could not forbear breaking in upon the apparently interesting conversation passing between the countess and Albert, to inquire of the former if she knew who was the fair Albanian opposite, since beauty such as hers was well worthy of being observed by either sex
34. " In spite of the gross flattery and coarseness of this address, Madame Danglars could not forbear gazing with considerable interest on a man capable of expending six millions in twelve months, and who had selected Paris for the scene of his princely extravagance
35. As Crass flung this bombshell into the Socialist camp, the miserable, ragged-trousered crew around him could scarce forbear a cheer; but the more intelligent part of the audience only laughed
36. The young gentleman, his friend, overjoyed as he was at a passage that had late befallen him, could not forbear to tell it his nearest neighbour
37. Who was that that bid him forbear?
38. ) 'I have mentioned the ape-men, and I cannot forbear from saying that some of the sounds which now meet my ears bring back most vividly to my recollection my experiences with those interesting creatures
39. He felt that he had from now on only two choices: to forbear the Ring, though it would torment him; or to claim it, and challenge the Power that sat in its dark hold beyond the valley of shadows
40. O this indeed was Capital Sport! Was I becoming as corrupt as Lord Bellars from the Pleasure I took in this Game? Had I lost my Innocence entirely? Had I forgotten the Wisdom of the Grandmaster of the Coven, who herself confirm’d that Vengeance belong’d to the Goddess alone? But the Delights of this Game were so irresistible to me that I could not forbear from playing
41. At this point I cannot forbear introducing a surprisingly relevant, if quite exaggerated, quotation on the subject which I found recently in one of Shakespeare’s sonnets
42. “But why are you come?” I could not forbear saying
43. forbear to waste them on trite transient objects
44. I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired him to leave me: I must and would be alone
45. Elinor’s heart thanked her for such kindness towards Edward, though she could not forbear smiling at the form of it
46. Now, when she knew better how to be useful, and how to forbear, and when her mother could be no longer occupied by the incessant demands of a house full of little children, there would be leisure and inclination for every comfort, and they should soon be what mother and daughter ought to be to each other
47. Could it be a vestige of some human instinct come back from an ancient forbear to haunt him with the horror of his people's ways!
48. Mayhew having concluded his narration, Ahab put such questions to him, that the stranger captain could not forbear inquiring whether he intended to hunt the White Whale, if opportunity should offer
49. As the silent harpoon burned there like a serpent's tongue, Starbuck grasped Ahab by the arm—"God, God is against thee, old man; forbear! 'tis an ill voyage! ill begun, ill continued; let me square the yards, while we may, old man, and make a fair wind of it homewards, to go on a better voyage than this
50. A scene has just passed of such uncommon interest that, although it is highly probable that these papers may never reach you, yet I cannot forbear recording it
1. Patiently forbearing whatever difficulties one has with the other person
2. forbearing, and I could not stay
3. 8 Therefore God was not angry with them; nor impatient with them; but He was longsuffering and forbearing towards them as towards the children He had created
4. “No, of course not, you’ve always been as forbearing as your grandmother
5. · A character that is equitable, reasonable, forbearing, moderate, fair and considerate
6. He is indeed Forbearing and Forgiving
7. God is Appreciative and Forbearing
8. She meant to warn him that Laurie would not bear much restraint, and hoped he would be more forbearing with the lad
9. "I have been so far forbearing with you, sir," he said quietly; "not that I was ignorant of your miserable, degraded character, but I felt you were only partly responsible for that; and Catherine wishing to keep up your acquaintance, I acquiesced---foolishly
10. As they passed the gates, the French officers, who had learned their rank, bowed often and low, forbearing, however, to intrude those attentions which they saw, with peculiar tact, might not be agreeable
11. His forbearing at present to deliver them is on purpose to try their love, whether they will cleave to him to the end; and as for the ill end thou sayest they come to, that is most glorious in their account; for, for present deliverance, they do not much expect it, for they stay for their glory, and then they shall have it when their Prince comes in his and the glory of the angels
12. She had the easily stirred passions of At sixteen, thanks to Mammy and Ellen, she looked sweet, charming and giddy, but her Irish father and nothing except the thinnest veneer of her mother’s unselfish and forbearing nature
13. ‘I’ve been so far forbearing with you, sir,’ he said quietly; ‘not that I was ignorant of your miserable, degraded character, but I felt you were only partly responsible for that; and Catherine wishing to keep up your acquaintance, I acquiesced—foolishly
14. Far too forbearing
15. I should not settle tamely down into being the forbearing party; I should assign you your share of labour, and compel you to accomplish it, or else it should be left undone: I should insist, also, on your keeping some of those drawling, half-insincere complaints hushed in your own breast
16. I found him a very patient, very forbearing, and yet an exacting master: he expected me to do a great deal; and when I fulfilled his expectations, he, in his own way, fully testified his approbation
17. Yet, though she foresaw all the unpleasantness of her predicament, she did nothing to escape from it by (for instance) conciliating this one, giving presents to that other one, and forbearing to grumble—the last a precaution which it would have been easy for her to take, seeing that by nature she was in no way exacting, as well as very good-tempered
18. In all their intercourse these youths were delicate and forbearing in a way that only very poor and very young men can be
1. who forbears, let him forbear, for they are a rebellious house
2. 14 For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbears to punish, till they be come to the fulness
3. 13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbears to keep the Passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin
4. 14 For not as with other nations whom the Lord patiently forbears to punish till they be come to the fulness of their sins so deals he with us 15 Lest that being come to the height of sin afterwards he should take vengeance of us
5. to our forbears, who paved the way for us
6. The quick temper of his Irish forbears was aroused and demanded some retaliation
7. Unless we heed the very precise wisdom that our ancient forbears undertook such great efforts to
8. wisdom flowing from ancient Egypt-Nubia and their forbears during the much earlier times they
1. had come, but forbore to ask, guessing she would reveal herself in due course
2. The patron, Baron Glambeck of Glambeck, was a serious real Christian who believed that the poor should, like some vast pudding that will not otherwise turn out well, be constantly stirred up, and he was unable to approve of a pastor who except in church and on every alternate Tuesday forbore to stir
3. 'Curious,' said Miss Entwhistle to herself; and forbore to criticise further
4. Forbore: Past tense of forbear
5. 'Course not! Do you think I'm daft?' Rafferty forbore to comment
6. Marianne was going to retort, but she remembered her promises, and forbore
7. But reflecting, before I got into his room, which was at the back of the house and adjoined mine, that he and Startop had had a harder day than I, and were fatigued, I forbore
8. Forasmuch as they hang in my memory by only this one slender thread, I don't know what they did, except that they forbore to
9. The baron forbore to mention that he and his uncle had assembled their own staff of analysts—recruited primarily from the scholars and the sons of merchants and bankers who’d somehow found themselves serving with the Mighty Host—precisely because they no longer trusted the sorts of numbers they were getting from people like Cahnyr Kaitswyrth
10. Wind Song forbore to point out that the Mighty Host of God and the Archangels’ orders were to hold a position as far east as possible
11. So, apparently, did the Creators themselves, who forbore to strike down even the longest-winded of Their servitors
12. With difficulty I forbore showing my anger, which I knew would be wholly useless
13. It was clear the doctor was quite as appreciative of its perfection as he had been of the one before it, though he forbore any comment
14. But he felt, because he knew, that peace was the best interest of his country, and forbore to call Congress together
1. Hawkeye, who had only forborne to fire in tenderness to Uncas, raised a shout of success, and proclaimed aloud that now they were certain of their game
2. On one of those ugly nights, which we have faintly hinted at, but forborne to picture forth, the minister started from his chair
3. And, here, since he had so valiantly forborne all other wickedness, poor Mr
4. Her hand was on the bell, but she had forborne to ring it
5. And in this way the two went once slowly round the windlass; when, resolved at last no longer to retreat, bethinking him that he had now forborne as much as comported with his humor, the Lakeman paused on the hatches and thus spoke to the officer:
6. Your committee, not feeling themselves authorized to enter into such terms, and judging that the extent of those propositions would better apply to the details of a bill, than to the adoption of a principle to be first settled by the House, have, therefore forborne to inquire into the extent of the propositions, and, without expressing an approbation or rejection of these offers, or giving an opinion as to the plan and reasoning of the Secretary of the Treasury, your committee in order that the opinion of the House on this great national question may be declared previous to entering into the details connected with the subject, recommend the following resolution:
7. The President has not, therefore, violated the constitution, and usurped the war-making power, but he would have violated that provision which requires him to see that the laws are faithfully executed, if he had longer forborne to act
8. Giles) had instructed and amused us with the very able and ingenious argument which he delivered on yesterday, I should have still forborne to trespass on the Senate, but for the extraordinary character of his speech