She never would tell me anything about her family, except that she forsook them to get her own living—went on the stage, in fact.
Four times he had his hands on that rich treasure and four times it wasted to nothingness in his fingers as sleep forsook him and wakefulness brought back the hard reality of his misfortune.
" The boys' breath forsook them.
But troubled by the conservative Qing Dynasty's inability to keep China from suffering repeated humiliations at the hands of more advanced countries, he forsook medicine two years later for politics.
The cloud of her hair, petal of her cheek, gold ripples of her crown when she moved, Were sheltered on spring evenings by warm hibiscus curtains; But nights of spring were short and the sun arose too soon, And the Emperor, from that time forth, forsook his early hearings And lavished all his time on her with feasts and revelry, His mistress of the spring, his despot of the night.
This man, from pure goodness of heart, forsook the town where he lived and came to dwell here, in the hope of curing one of his neighbours of the envy he felt towards him.
They at once forsook his plough-lands, and cried to each other: "It is time for us to be off, for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do.
And many a night he had to sleep under the open sky, wet through with the driving rain or the falling mist; but his good humor never forsook him.
"Fie on the villain that forsook her!
