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.

At all events, it constitutes a system which, as the last presidential election showed, the American people will not willingly forgo.

Even a lieutenant-colonel, before commanding a battalion, could go to school once more; and even for officers and men "in rest," there were, and are, endless opportunities of seeing and learning, which few wish to forgo.

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.

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

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.

The ground I for my bed have often used: But what afflicts my peace with keenest ruth, Is that I have my inner self abused, Forgone the home delight of constant truth, 440 And clear and open soul, so prized in fearless youth.

Though seas and mountains and rough ways divide Our feet asunder, neither frost nor snow Can make the soul her ancient love forgo; Nor chains nor bonds the wings of thought have tied.

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

The sweetnesse of that banquet must forgo, Whose pleasant tast is chaungde with bitter wo. Ara.

(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.

" "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!

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!

*** 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.

We started rather late, in the tea interval, and nobody took the least interest in what was considered a forgone conclusion.

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

Always she encountered the same obstacle, a feeling that she had been defrauded, robbed of something vital; she had forgone that wonderful, passionate drawing together which makes the separate lives of the man and woman who experiences it so fuse that in the truest sense of the word they become one.

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

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

The discovery that even magistrates have to forgo their simple pleasures in these times made a profound impression upon the boy.

Those who never rightly appreciated you may imagine that you will meekly consent to forgo that claim.

There will be tears for plans forgone, the changing of the little ones' schools and elder children's careers, unpleasant letters to be written home, and more unpleasant ones to be received from relatives who 'told you so from the first.'

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

In the meantime, he had every forgone item of the dinner served to him as exactly as if he had not been late at table, and sipped his soup with perfect deliberation while others were busy with the sweets.

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.