How To Use Forbear In A Sentence
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You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop?
The Giant's Robe
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That complete dependence on each other, which insures habits of confidence and forbearance, is more easily acquired while the first dream of love lasts; and tastes and tempers amalgamate better in the end when there are no witnesses to observe that they do not quite fit at first.
The Semi-Attached Couple
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According to the way of thinking promoted by Horowitz and the Students for Academic Freedom, however, my forbearing critique would hardly have been enough to absolve the stain of the readings.
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The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.
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Travel widens horizons in more ways than one, and makes people wiser and more mature, besides developing the qualities of tolerance and forbearance.
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That so forbearant a people as Canadians have virtually destroyed two of their three parties is convincing evidence that they realize that that policy has failed.
Post-Election Prospects in Canada
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At first, the small group showed forbearance.
Christianity Today
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John is a lonely gay man with a father fixation and a forbearing best friend (played by John Cardone with impish charm) who worries about the approach of middle age in the form of his 40th birthday.
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she could not forbear weeping
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Consideration may also be said to be illusory where it is clear that the promisee would have accomplished the act of forbearance anyway, even if the promise had not been made.
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Whether a boss shows forbearance will depend on the company and the individuals involved.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46
Agesilaus
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On the signboard outside the village hall, a mysterious announcement appeared: Let all men recognize your unselfishness, your considerateness, your forbearing spirit.
A Christmas Parable By Judith Moran
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The message of this judgment is that when promises of payment on pleas for forbearance are made, the commercial creditor is well advised to ask to have an agreement in writing signed by the promisee.
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The one you're talking to is all tolerance and forbearance.
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Past generations had much worse to deal with, but showed stoicism, forbearance and fortitude.
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Faith, for Constantine, was a political matter; and any faith conducive to unity was treated with forbearance.
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The guards, too, treated the common criminals with a certain forbearance, even when they had to handle them roughly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
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He is simply tolerant and forbearant, and refrains from judging harshly; and harsh judgments of others will almost invariably provoke harsh judgments of ourselves.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
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So that each, having only their own private injuries to resent, felt free in forbearing.
The Hidden Hand
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In exercising the functions of his high station, Gregory exhibited great mildness and forbearance.
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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. William Shakespeare
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By thoughtful ruminating on their flowers, committing them to memory, pupils assimilated the wisdom of their predecessors, transforming their forbears 'words into their own. 15 Conducting this wisdom through one's own life revealed the unique inner genius (ingenium) of one's character.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.
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We thank all riders for their patience and forbearance.
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Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia.
ShoutWire.com
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Under Genachowski's proposal, the FCC would apply only a small fraction of Title II's rules and exempt, or "forbear," those irrelevant to Internet access.
FCC chair outlines regulatory foundation for broadband providers
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His plan was such a success that even his original critics could scarcely forbear from congratulating him.
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Glenlivet and her daughters received the intelligence that the only son of the house was about to bring an English bride to the grey old Scotch mansion where so many generations of his "forbears" had lived and died.
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
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The message of this judgment is that when promises of payment on pleas for forbearance are made, the commercial creditor is well advised to ask to have an agreement in writing signed by the promisee.
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He would do the same if they acted according to His injunctions, and remained forbearing and just.
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If our forbears were big eaters, or if we were fed a lot in childhood, our needs will be greater.
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The actual exercise of that power, by directing any particular action, or its forbearance, is that which we call volition or willing.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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He therefore prudently forbore, that is to say, as much as he could forbear, to show any signs of his attachment to Rose, till he had full opportunity of forming a decisive judgment of her character.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02
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However, another character in the novel offers a less forbearing view of the parlous financial circumstances of the audit staff.
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The effect of this looseness in the laws is to encourage hasty, incon - siderate marriages, and to make escape from an uncongenial partner so easy that the obligation to cultivate forbearance, and to acquire mutual adaptation, which may not at first exist, is wholly overlooked.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
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Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
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So a government scientist, whom out of modesty I forbear to name, had to expose the fraud.
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But in the minor 'dogmata', in modes of exposition, and the vehicles of faith and reason to the understandings, imaginations, and affections of men, the churches may differ, and in this difference supply one object for charity to exercise itself on by mutual forbearance.
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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Love cancels resentment, envy and jealousy and replaces them with kindness, forbearance and cordiality.
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There are, no doubt, a few strong tolerant minds which can bear with defects and angularities of manner, and look only to the more genuine qualities; but the world at large is not so forbearant, and cannot help forming its judgments and likings mainly according to outward conduct.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance
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Up until September of 2010, these recordings were exclusively housed at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, but now anyone with a computer can log on and listen to their forbears express their heroic dreams for a bright new future.
Cheryl Wills: The Ghosts of America's Past Speak
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Forbear preprandial procrastination: spin the wheel and close the deal.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Spin the Wheel of Food at lunchtime
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Forbearance, though it be no acquittance, is sometimes a piece of needful and laudable charity.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Pressed beyond the limits of forbearance, our army fought back resolutely and dealt telling blows to the enemy.
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His plan was such a success that even his original critics could scarcely forbear from congratulating him.
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Mr. Moulton took the paper, deliberately adjusted his spectacles, and, having read it very leisurely (I wondered how those fiery creatures had the forbearance to stay quiet, but they did; I think they were hypnotized by my father-in-law's coolness), he said, in his weird French, "Vous voolly nos animaux!" which sounded like _nos animose_.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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His plan was such a success that even his original critics could scarcely forbear from congratulating him.
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If you always remember the Lord's Passion, you will unmurmuringly forbear everything. - St. Dimitri of Rostov
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The wounded man could not forbear to cry out.
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His plan was such a success that even his original critics could scarcely forbear from congratulating him.
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And that's why evangelicals returned finally to scripture to see what he says about how one is rightly related to God with its implications for how to get along with others and loving others and being forbearing and so forth.
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My love to you is a _pitying, sparing, and forgiving love; a forbearing and tender-hearted love_: so must you be to one another, Col. iii.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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The party has no tradition of back-stabbing its leaders: on the contrary, it has been very forbearing of them, even when a stab in the back might have been in everyone's interest.
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It is often difficult to forbear from expressing one's opinion.
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And his hairy, lowbrowed forbears in Tertiary times can we see ourselves in them?
In the Noon of Science
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_ Well, let's favour our apprehensions 230 with forbearing that a little; for, if my heart were not hoopt with adamant, the conceipt of this would have burst it: but heark thee.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
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`She will ramble on, no doubt, but I would ask you be forbearing.
A TIME OF WAR
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He has a forbearing nature; he accepts trouble with a smile.
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I shrug at the driver, a forbearing Asian man who shrugs back.
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You're surrounded by amazingly patient, forbearing people, especially your parents.
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He says: "I dehort mine from Christmas keeping and charge them to forbear.
Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse
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Generous, too, he appeared to her, in forbearing to apply to Sir Hugh, without her permission; disinterested, in declaring he did not wish for her hand without her heart: and noble, in not seeking her in a clandestine manner, but referring every thing to
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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These things being grievous to those concerned, as we are, though perhaps those at quiet are too little concerned in the matter, therefore when I could no longer forbear, I thought good to present to public view the warrantableness of our holy communion, and the unreasonableness of their seeking to break us to pieces.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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All the Greenpeace people behaved with impressive forbearance and dignity.
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He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or 'cockshy' -- he had seen this very Ricketts arrayed in crimson and gold, with an immense bear-skin cap on his head, staggering under the colours of the regiment.
The History of Pendennis
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`Forbear not sowing because of the birds,' he had used to say, when counselling against needless caution.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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The USA has had to take an hands-off approach to the Salvadorean election ... for once forbearing, at least overtly, to threaten that tiny nation with dire consequences for voting its conscience.
It truly soothes the soul to watch the USA empire in its death-throes...
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I'm not always this forbearing - see the letters pages of this issue.
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All the Greenpeace people behaved with impressive forbearance and dignity.
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There was, of course, no denying that Willie's disregard for the meal hour had become what she termed "chronical" and severely taxed her forbearance; or that since she was a creature of human limitations she did at times protest when the chowder stood forgotten in the tureen until it was of Arctic temperature; nor had she ever acquired the grace of spirit to amiably view freshly baked popovers shrivel neglected into nothingness.
Flood Tide
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Unlike their forbears, modern-day Keynesians do not argue just for mollification in the rate of deleveraging.
Michael Pento: How Dr. Keynes Killed the Patient
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At the last issue, he and she were two separate beings, not made one by the miracle of common forbearances, duties, abnegations, but bound together in a _noyade_ of passion that left them resisting yet clinging as they went down.
The Greater Inclination
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May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
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Countenances of such amazement were turned towards him, that Small, who had a keen sense of the ludicrous, could scarcely forbear smiling as he proceeded; and if we could suspect so grave a personage of waggery, we should almost think that, by way of retaliation, he had palmed some abstruse, monkish epicedium upon his astounded auditors.
Rookwood
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I am a bankrupt both in fortune and in heart, and can only pray you will hasten to forget – that you may forbear to execrate me! '
Camilla
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May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
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Alessandro, forbeare such boldnesse, uppon thy lives perill, and before thou further presume to touch me, understand what I shall tell thee.
The Decameron
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‘You have been most forbearing with us during these difficult times,’ Yumni said.
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Certainly the French father might have followed the custom of his class and country, and coerced his young daughter into the acceptance of any husband he might have chosen for her; but he did not feel disposed to use harsh measures with his only and idolized child; he rather preferred to exercise patience and forbearance toward her, until she should have outlived what he called her childish caprices.
The Lost Lady of Lone
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He forbears to mention the matter again.
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Tolerance as forbearance leads to individuals who act without discrimination out of restraint but in fact remain intolerant in thoughts and beliefs.
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And thank you for your forbearance and your extraordinary patience today as we celebrate the dedication of this extraordinary institution.
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The forbearing wisdom on Sam's features was illusory, surely.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Applying the rule of thumb to the obscure word "forbear," how many reasons are there for the FCC to reject the deregulation petitions?
Art Brodsky: Bad FCC Decision Could Cost Consumers Billions
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seemly and forbearing...yet strong enough to resist aggression
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Could she speak pleasantly to her aunt? could she even look pleasantly at her? could she "forbear" all unkindness, even in thought?
Melbourne House
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But in the meane whyle, _ther is come ouer a nother booke againste the blessed sacrament_, a booke of that sorte, that Frythe's booke the brethren maye nowe forbeare.
Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
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Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment, said Herbert, soothingly.
The Hidden Hand
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May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
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His plan was such a success that even his original critics could scarcely forbear from congratulating him.
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cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note
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Nor let it offend you, if I run into more large discourse, then this day hath bene used by any, for the apter compleating of my Novell: because, if you well observe it, the Sun is as yet in the middest of heaven, and therefore you may the better forbeare me.
The Decameron
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R3, the insolvency body, warned that many businesses were being kept alive by the forbearance of banks.
Times, Sunday Times
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censoriousness," of perpetual nagging, and fault-finding developed to such a pitch that it has eaten out at last the fair heart of human forbearance and kindness which is the birthright of everyone.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
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The forbearance made no difference; it was not of any value.
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And though his income, as you know, was so small, he never ran in debt, and by an exact but open oeconomy, escaped all imputation of meanness: while by forbearing either to conceal, or repine at his limited fortune, he blunted even the raillery of the dissipated, by frankly and good humouredly meeting it half way.
Camilla
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I hereby make a vow, not to cheat, but to win quizzes here on in on my wit and intelligence alone, forbearing all use of my fox-like cunning.
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Andrea wasn't the sort to nag, rather such a quiet, forbearing type that people would hold her up as an example.
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A little generous prudence, a little forbearance of one another, and some grain of charity might win all these diligences to join, and unite in one general and brotherly search after truth; could we but forgo this prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and
Areopagitica
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By loosening capital requirements and pursuing regulatory forbearance, regulators hide the problem of an insolvent bank and hope that the situation will improve.
Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
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My good Mr. Tyrrel, I can assure you he does not think that you have forborne him at all, and he has no purpose to forbear you; and I must either carry back a sufficient apology, or you must meet in a quiet way, with a good friend on each side. —
Saint Ronan's Well
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Nor can they be made to comprehend that the workingman is the uncrowned king of the industrial realm, and educated labor enthroned vitality; or that only freemen -- free to do or forbear -- work with genuine fidelity, and give to toil their highest endeavor.
The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
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But here I cannot forbear taking notice of a remarkable subtilty of the Roman law, in distinguishing betwixt confusion and commixtion.
A Treatise of Human Nature
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I forbear to dwell upon this exhibition of human weakness, for almost any one in Jason's shoes would have been equally regardless of the regulations, and in consequence proportionally unseamanlike.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
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Then he looked down at the typewritten sheets on the table and could not forbear to smile.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Love cancels resentment, envy and jealousy and replaces them with kindness, forbearance and cordiality.
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May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
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` ` Woman, '' said Saddletree, assuming an elevated tone, to which the meridian had somewhat contributed, ` ` desist, --- I say forbear, from intromitting with affairs thou canst not understand.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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I shall show the higher part intellect plays in conjugal love, the control, restraint, forbearance, sacrifice.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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It is personal and individualistic; a game of great skill and courage, of patience and forbearance.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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And then he poured out a prayer for charity; not merely the kindness that throws a covering over the failings of others, or that holds back the report of what they have been; but the overabounding heavenly love that will send its brightness into the dark places of human society and with its own richness fill the barren spots; and above all, for that love of Jesus the King, that makes all his servants dear, for that spirit of Christ that looks with his own love and forbearance on all that need it.
The Old Helmet, Volume II
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The remuneration had allegedly been paid at a time when the company was known by its directors to be making losses and to be unable to pay its debts without forbearance from its creditors, but there was no allegation of fraud.
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So holy is the spot to Judaism, that only when the Jewish Messiah arrives will Jews be permitted to once again step on the hallowed ground where their distant forbears worshipped.
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Moderation. Avoid extreme; forbear so much as you think they deserve.
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If we are asking for forbearance from our patrons then we must show our commitment to them.
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I cannot forbear observing the philosophical significance of the fact that Autobiography fails to include a photograph of LeWitt himself.
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John Kidd is to be commended generally, and specifically for forbearing to anagrammatize Gabler's name as Gartle.
'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange
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The victim's daughter, Peggy Puckett - in every other respect a model of forbearance - took umbrage at that, retorting that her father ‘hasn't said anything like that’.
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And the Skins crew, scrappier and sluttier than their soapy forbears, had a mess of a get-together where sex (pubescent playa Tony plotted to get loser bestie Stanley laid), drugs (Stan's first- time-to-be nearly O.D.'d), and violence (fight! fight! fight!) collided in a way that would have left One Tree Hill under a state-mandated curfew for a month.
Watercooler: Only Skins Deep?
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We have, as a nation, taken the news of our impending doom with implacable calm and forbearance.
Times, Sunday Times
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III. ii.439 (293,5) [to a living humour of madness] If this be the true reading we must by _living_ understand _lasting_, or _permanent_, but I cannot forbear to think that some antithesis was intended which is now lost; perhaps the passage stood thus, _I drove my suitor from a_ dying _humour of love to a living humour of madness_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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In Jehovahs name forbear; cried a shrill, but clear and melodious voice.
One Wicked Impulse! Pieces in Early Youth
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He too joined in the thanks and compliments to the count staff and thanked the candidates and their agents for their courtesy, patience and forbearance throughout a long and arduous process.
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But perhaps you may determine the offence properly disciplinable, and not demanding forbearance.
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We have bought into instant gratification for so long the concept of patience and forbearance is moribund.
Poll: Obama approval rating dips under 60 percent
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In my case, I saw that with a little patience and forbearance, the moderate majority on both sides could probably have come to terms with each other ages ago - if the vested interests of extremists were not threatened by any accommodation.
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It is simply ridiculous; no one has shown more tolerance or forbearance than me.
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But the Scot's quiet confidence and forbearance spread to the rest of the community.
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Our pious and God-fearing "forbears," having secured personal and religious liberty, proceeded to inaugurate a most successful and remunerative trade in rum and slaves.
Worldly Ways and Byways
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The brave man is generous and forbearant, never unforgiving and cruel.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance
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If we have not learned a lesson of forbearance from studying the rise and fall of the Langford campfire myth, we surely must learn it from the ghosts of Kaibab deer and Chief Seattle.
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They know me! they are cautious!" muttered Sybil, biting her lips with suppressed fury; for their forbearance, which she called duplicity, enraged her more than all their flirting had done.
Cruel As The Grave
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‘My ingenuity obtained my pardon: the lady being unable to forbear laughing throughout the whole affair, to find both so uncommonly tricked; her gaoleress her prisoner, safe locked up, and as much pleased as either of us.’
Clarissa Harlowe
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she was unforbearing with the slower students
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On seeing the Prince eat heartily, whilst only in his shirt and philibeg, Captain Donald Macdonald could not forbear smiling.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
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The fans could not forbear crying out at the wonderful goal.
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May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
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So a government scientist, whom out of modesty I forbear to name, had to expose the fraud.
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If we are very forbearing, then something we would normally consider very painful will not appear so bad after all.
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All around, patience and forbearance are running thin.
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Even Maureen, who generally treats her choleric partner with girlish forbearance, at one point asks: ‘Why do you always shout like that, Rolf?’
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I am a forbearing man, and I am still waiting for your answer to my proposal.
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A definite understanding as to sofa cushions and tobacco smoke does not always insure unwearied forbearance and devotion.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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I had said to her, perhaps that very day, 'I know not whether this book is worth anything, nor what the world will do with it, or misdo, or entirely forbear to do (as is likeliest), but this I could tell the world: You have not had for a hundred years any book that came more direct and flamingly sincere from the heart of a living man; do with it what you like, you -----!'
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Thank you for being so forbearing.
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The word forbear comes from the Middle English forberen, thence from the Old English forberan, both meaning to endure or to get through something, and to do so with grace and dignity.
Beyond the Fields We Know
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We would like to thank members of the public who travel between York, Scarborough and beyond for their patience and forbearance during these difficult times.
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Still, I could not forbear asking one more question as he walked away.
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Whereas, by a little charity and mutual forbearance, things are made to go on pleasantly enough: we may abuse a man as much as we like, and call him the greatest rascal unhanged — but do we wish to hang him therefore?
Vanity Fair
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Pressed beyond the limits of forbearance, our army fought back resolutely and dealt telling blows to the enemy.
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He will be forbearant of the weaknesses, the failings, and the errors, of those whose advantages in life have not been equal to his own.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance
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He was surprisingly forbearing about the fight Joe got into, much to Joe's astonishment.
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And here one can hardly forbear comparing the magnificently thorough manner in which this frontier was fixed, with the shoddy, confused method in which the Perso-Beluch frontier was "demarcated" -- if the word can be used in this case -- by Sir Thomas Holdich at the same epoch.
Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland
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Overall, companies' balance sheets are in good health and banks are showing considerable forbearance in rolling over loans to businesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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But here, where an admiration almost adoring was fixt of the character to which she submitted, she was sure to applaud the motives which swayed him, however little their consequences met her sentiments: and even where the contrariety was wholly repugnant to her judgment, the genuine warmth of her just affection made every compliance, and every forbearance, not merely exempt from pain, but if to him any satisfaction, a sacrifice soothing to her heart.
Camilla
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So a government scientist, whom out of modesty I forbear to name, had to expose the fraud.
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On the other hand, the reverse is also true: killing that is not defensive in nature violates the demand of mercy that we should be forbearing and patient with a person unless he is dangerous to us.
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We legislate them for ourselves, and also for others, when we demand respect or civility or forbearance from them.
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I refer to our forbears, who, in trekking from the north to the southernmost tip of Africa centuries ago, braved rivers that are perennially swollen; hacked their way through treacherous jungle and forest; survived the plagues of the then untamed lethal diseases of a multifarious nature that abounded in Equatorial Africa; and wrested themselves from the gaping mouths of the beasts of prey.
Albert Lutuli - Nobel Lecture
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Florinda's scalp was mended with a hot knitting-needle and a perpetual bonnet, and Dot rescued her paint-brushes from the glue-pot, and smelt her india-rubber as it boiled down in Sam's waterproof manufactory, with long-suffering forbearance.
The Brownies and Other Tales
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In a speech in 1906, Norton Parker Chipman recalled that his friend Abraham Lincoln was ‘firm as the granite hills,’ yet capable of great patience and forbearance.
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He then offers four policies that would "offset the revenue loss twice over," though I'm quite sure the CBO wouldn't agree with that assessment: recalling unspent TARP and stimulus funds; giving the president the power to "impound" congressional spending projects in order to spend less; a federal hiring freeze; and "some sort of regulatory forbearance period in which the job-killing practice of agonizingly slow environmental permitting is suspended.
Mitch Daniels has a plan
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I shall not enter into his literary quarrels further than to say that he seems to me, on the whole, to have been forbearing, which is the more striking as he tells us repeatedly that he was naturally vindictive.
Among My Books First Series
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By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, Prov. xxv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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All his life long he was the singer of a parish -- the last of a long line of "forbears" who had used the
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
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The wise and forbearant man will restrain his desire to say a smart or severe thing at the expense of another's feeling; while the fool blurts out what he thinks, and will sacrifice his friend rather than his joke.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
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Sometimes begging by good customers can win forbearance, but usually we are held to the written terms of the contract no matter how buried or convoluted the clause in question may be.
Dean Baker: Bankers Running Wild: Foreclosure Flurry in Florida
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15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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In contrast to what he sees as the dry formalism of his forbears, Morrison offers a self-consciously passionate response to the play.
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Northern speakers and writers; but the South, now that nothing can be gained by forbearance, is taking up the anti-English cry, and
London: Saturday, December 26, 1863
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Is this representative of a certain indifference to the qualities of commercial manga or is there some sort of cultural forbearance and variation in standards at work here?
Standards and practices
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You must not only forbear to visit him, but if you would save him from the crime of embruing his hands in your blood, you must leave the country.
Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
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It is often difficult to forbear from expressing one's opinion.
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But language urging the "extinguishment" of second liens carries the effect of principal forgiveness, rather than forbearance.
HousingWire
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She should try to forbear from saying such cruel things.
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_Which_, retaining its office as connective, may as an adjective accompany its noun; as, I craved his forbearance a little longer, _which forbearance_ he allowed me.] +A _Personal Pronoun_ is a pronoun that by its form denotes the speaker, the one spoken to, or the one spoken of+.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
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The fans could not forbear crying out at the wonderful goal.
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We would ask road users to show forbearance and patience.
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There was something in the man so far beyond any mere unsociality or sourness previously evinced, that even the forbearing good-nature of his guest could no longer endure it.
The Piazza Tales
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May I be strenuous, energetic and persevering !May I be patient! May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others! May I ever keep a promise given!
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Hence, this ought also to be considered whether the justice, which is the administratrix of the decree of reprobation or predamnation is revealed according to the Law or the Gospel, of legal rigor or softened by some mercy and forbearance.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
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III. ii.439 (293,5) [to a living humour of madness] If this be the true reading we must by _living_ understand _lasting_, or _permanent_, but I cannot forbear to think that some antithesis was intended which is now lost; perhaps the passage stood thus, _I drove my suitor from a_ dying _humour of love to a living humour of madness_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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Nor am I such a sycophantic admirer of the Reformed establishmentarianism that I disavow any admiration of, or any spiritual kinship to, many of our Anabaptist forbears.
Pensees
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His plan was such a success that even his original critics could scarcely forbear from congratulating him.
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In this case, Verizon has asked the FCC to "forbear" from regulating some of the services it provides in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence and Virginia Beach.
Art Brodsky: Bad FCC Decision Could Cost Consumers Billions
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An 'what 's ten times mair exterord'nar, there's the Duke o' Gordon jist lattin 'the gype tak 's wull o' the hoose a 'his grace's ain forbears!
Malcolm
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It's important to continue making payments until your request for deferment or forbearance is granted.
Grads neck-deep in debt have options
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The workplace no longer values the masculine attributes of strength, forbearance, comradeship and determination.
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If you have enough patience and forbearance, you'll be pleasantly surprised by how much of you people want, and how much they're willing to pay for it.
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Those moving away were sometimes dismissed as a shiftless lot who could not live up to the small-town virtues of constancy and forbearance.
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We legislate them for ourselves, and also for others, when we demand respect or civility or forbearance from them.
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Un ought never to be prefixed to a participle present to mark a forbearance of action, as unsighing, but a privation of habit, as unpitying.
A Grammar of the English Tongue
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A gentleman, he's serious, polite, professional, even forbidding at first, emitting an air of patient forbearance.
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It conveyed a sense of forbearing and compassionate understanding in which the idea that people are human and mistakes are natural was embodied.
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Heaven forfend and forbear that we actually admit we have “wiggly bits” under our clothes, much less during “family” viewing hours.
Blocking the information highway
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And therefore I, who intend to relate something, which (peradventure) might appeare doubtfull: will forbeare (seeing you in such a difference; for that which hath bin spoken alreadie) to use any difficult discourse; but will speake of one, a man of no meane ranke or quality, being both a valiant and vertuous King, and what he did, without any impeach or blemish to his honor.
The Decameron
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Past generations had much worse to deal with, but showed stoicism, forbearance and fortitude.
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In moral philosophy, feeling shame has generally been considered a natural disposition or sensation, and the fear of incurring it an universal motive for action or forbearance from antiquity onwards.
