| 1. | Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpos. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | providence Hath seen alway me to forgo Cresseide. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 3. | The tortures of the accused did not equal mine she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 4. | I had returned to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come and visit us. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | She evidently felt frightened and ashamed to have accepted charity in a house where such things could be said, and was at the same time sorry to have now to forgo the charity of this house. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |