Forfeited

Examples

• I am at present responsible for his life; it shall not be forfeited for half an hour's idle gossip. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Before Emma had forfeited her confidence, and about the third time of their meeting, she heard all Mrs. Elton's knight-errantry on the subject. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They were Brahmins (he said) who had forfeited their caste in the service of the god. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I, who forfeited mine long ago! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• If you fail me, then my honor as well as my position are forever forfeited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Your parliament never had a right to govern us, and your king has forfeited it by his bloody tyranny. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But for her he might have wealth, station, education, and his father's place, which the elder George had forfeited for her sake. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I foresaw that, being convicted, his possessions would be forfeited to the Crown. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• That he said was quite out of the question; but he understood that his evidence on oath would not be required to prove that I had forfeited the bond. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But Theodosius has forfeited his parental honours, and, by consenting to pay tribute, has degraded himself to the condition of a slave. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the stand-pat mind has forfeited all right to speak for human nature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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