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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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forbear
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Definition:1. to avoid [archaic]2. to refrain from doing something
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HAMLET. I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
KING. O, he is mad, Laertes.
QUEEN. For love of God, forbear him.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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“But why are you come?” I could not forbear saying.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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he listened to all their impertinence with the most forbearing courtesy.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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“Give me thy beauteous hand in token that thou dost not deceive me,” said Theodore; “and let me bathe it with the warm tears of gratitude.”
“Forbear!” said the Princess; “this must not be.”
Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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"I keeping you at attention too long, Unk?" said Boaz. He gritted his teeth. He couldn’t forbear torturing Unk from time to time.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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They are like that. One must not hold it against them. Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince, p.18 (Katherine Woods translation) (1943)
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‘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;
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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he could not forbear taking me up in his right hand, and stroking me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me, “whether I was a whig or tory?”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Buck grew stronger they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in which Thornton himself could not forbear to join;
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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"Nay, sir, not yet; I do entreat. And I do dare, sir— to be forbearing! Shall we not understand each other better than hitherto, Captain Ahab?"
Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most South-Sea-men's cabin furniture), and pointing it towards Starbuck, exclaimed: "There is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod.— On deck!"
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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The guards, too, treated the common criminals with a certain forbearance, even when they had to handle them roughly.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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It was all I could manage - this concession, this forebearance.
Sue Monk Kidd. The Mermaid Chair, p.297 (2005)
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fowls are exceedingly savoury, and opportunity favoured it. Therefore I decide, according to my conscience, that it is impossible that the Sheep could have forborne to eat the fowls; and accordingly the Sheep shall be put to death, and its carcase shall be given to the court, and its fleece shall be taken by the plaintiff.
Ivan Krylov.The Peasant and the Sheep (Ralston translation, 1869)
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