23 collocations for forgo

Ah my dear daughter, would she say frequently to her, how much should I rejoice to find in you a desire to forgo all the transitory fleeting pleasures of the world, and devote yourself entirely to heaven!what raptures would not your innocent soul partake, when wholly devoid of all thought of sensual objects!

Most men would forgo their claim to justice for the chance of being liked.

(2) A tendency to forgo the consideration of the immediate issues and to hark back in thought to 1870 or even to the Wars of Liberation.

If the boys wished him to forgo the delights of that voyage, let 'em pungle up half a millionor get.

It was impossible to forgo some further extension of the empire, and very difficult to arrest extension at any satisfactory static point.

You may, like those afrighted, by degrees Allay your sense of terror in the Object, And then its Power will lesson with your Fear, And 'twill be easy to forgo the Fantasm.

In Pushkara, one should practise austerities; in Mahalaya, one should give away; in the Malaya mountains, one should ascend the funeral pyre; and in Bhrigutunga, one should renounce one's body by forgoing food.

He must ask her to forgo these walks homeat least until the next examination.

Any whim, or point of pride, or fixed idea, or old habit, is enough to make a man or a nation forgo the hope of profit and fight for a creed.

NONE FORGOES THE LEAP, ATTAINING THE REPOSE.

In the poetry of 1700-1725, religion forgoes mysticism and exaltation; the intellectual life, daring and subtlety; the imagination, exuberance and splendor.

In her hands now lay the sinews of a war she had forgone all need of waging.

He has deliberately forgone anatomical precision in order to accentuate artistic effect.

The Spanish governors felt that no one could with impunity maltreat clients of Cato; and the circumstance that the representatives of the three nations conquered by Paullusthe Spaniards, Ligurians, and Macedonianswould not forgo the privilege of carrying his bier to the funeral pile, was the noblest dirge in honour of that noble man.

*** We are asked to deny the rumour that the KAISER has offered to compete for The Daily Mail trans-Atlantic flight and has offered to forgo the prize.

"I forgo all the rest," he says, "riches, birth, honor, authority, and all the goods here below of which the charm vanishes like a dream; but I cling to oratory nor do I regret the toil, nor the journeys by land and sea, which I have undertaken to master it."[320]

He offered to go himself to the Rue Daunou at the hour appointed and to do his best to induce M. le Comte de Naquetif indeed he existedto forgo his rights on the lady who had so innocently taken on the name and hand of M. le Marquis de Firmin-Latour.

One Labour paper a month or so ago was contrasting Mr. Asquith's eloquent appeals to the working man to economise and forgo any rise in wages with the photographs that were appearing simultaneously in the smart papers of the very smart marriage of Mr. Asquith's daughter.

In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars, and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power forgoes his wonted seat.

Gholson, of Virginia, in his speech in the legislature of that State, January 18, 1831, says: 'The master forgoes the service of the female slave, has her nursed and attended during the period of her gestation, and raises the helpless and infant offspring.

Then he resolves to break with the past, to put away childish things, to forgo affection, and to earn respect by imitating the activities of his elders.

" "To feast my long, long famished sight with gazing once more on your charms, I would forgo every thing but the hope of rendering myself one day more worthy of it!Too dear I prize the good wishes you vouchsafe to have for me, not to attempt every thing in my power to prevent the disappointment of them: the little I have yet done, alas!

Sfortunato, on the other hand, rather than offend his mistress, allows her to depart unharmed, and since he thereby forgoes his only chance of enjoying the object of his passion, determines to die.

23 collocations for  forgo