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How To Use forfend In A Sentence

• The reinforcement with the additional U-shaped flexible elongated metal folder improves the structure of conventional end hook in enhancing considerably the strength to withstand the stress of impact, forfending the usual disadvantage of fracture or rupture of the tape and rivet failure.
• I little knew, and less I cared, for I lived always in the moment and let others forecast, forfend, and travail their anxiety. Chapter 15
• It appears to do quite well in the marketplace as things stand, and lumping it together with the mainstream might, heaven forfend, see a decline in the sale of fantasy trilogies. MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2)
• [Footnote: Cf. the prefix "for -" in English "forfend," to keep away, to avert, "forbid," to exclude from, to command against, "forbear," to refrain from, etc.] A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
• This forfends what one may call the natural development of the natural man so overlaid with social man.
• She shows how they too forfended Moscow's revolution while they could, and what became of those exiled to Kazakhstan.
• Then he called Sir Bors, Sir Ector de Maris, and Sir Lionel, and told them how the queen had forfended him the court, and so he was in will to depart into his own country. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
• 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
• Thus a tradition died, and thus the Masters and Wardens of today rejoice in a happy immunity, all unknowing of the danger their predecessors forfended.
• “He came to us in fulsome state and told us of thee a thing which Heaven forfend; and the slave added a lie which it befitteth not to repeat, Allah preserve thy youth and sound sense and tongue of eloquence, and forbid to come from thee aught of offense!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night