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Updated: May 1, 2025
They never forswore I should say. STREPS. Can't say that they do: your words appear true. Whence comes then the thunderbolt, pray?
This little episode of illness and recovery having been thus duly celebrated, the masqueraders again forswore roofs and spent long days in distant junketing throughout the woods; the horses, too, were brought into requisition, and a flock of boats kept forever on the wing. And meanwhile, as Helen Heath said, she then least of all comprehending the real drama of that summer, Mrs.
His own was "like a marsh full of reeds," said the poet of the tribe, in a song which described these events, "so thick the spears stood in it." When he was dead, the tribe knew what they had lost in Why-Why. Then the tribesmen withdrew from that now holy ground, and built them houses, and forswore the follies of the medicine-men, as Why-Why had prophesied.
And it was in this year, when fidelity seemed a forgotten virtue, when men enlisted in the army and deserted to the enemy with equal indifference, that Benedict Arnold, entrusted at his own request with the command of West Point, forswore his trust and wrote treason across the fair record of a patriot's achievements.
The philosopher prevailed, and the poet, beaten at every point, forswore what ambitions remained to him, built himself a shepherd's hut in a valley of the Wiltshire Downs, and planned out his memoirs in three stout volumes. He believed that he had reached that stage in life where retrospect is all.
Not that he now forswore all interest in either, but from the moment of his final decision, he had determined that the mid-current of his life should run in a different direction. Yet another important factor in the case is to be found in the circumstances of his Berwick ministry.
Twenty times, he told me, he had tried to snare the old beech partridge. When he saw the otter slide he forswore traps and snares for birds; and I left the place, soon after, with good hopes for the grouse, knowing that I had spiked the guns of his most dangerous enemy. Years later I crossed the old pasture and went straight to the bullbrier tangle.
They forswore themselves without scruple: the disciples of Laud, the asserters of kingly infallibility and divine right, talked of usurped power and English rights in the strain of the very schismatics whom they had persecuted to the death.
'Fool! whoever you are, he shouted, that his voice might fetch him help; 'none of these moon-struck ways with me! If you want to rob me, try it! "'You know too well who I am, I answered, as he made to push me back. 'Lord Castlewood, here you have the choice to lick the dust, or be dust! Here you forswore yourself; here you pay for perjury.
Such a process was hardly within the compass of Roger's mind, who when he was made wretched by the dust, and by a female who had a basket of objectionable provisions opposite to him, almost forswore his charitable resolutions of the day before; but who again, as he walked lonely at night round the square which was near to his hotel, looking up at the bright moon with a full appreciation of the beauty of the heavens, asked himself what was he that he should wish to interfere with the happiness of two human beings much younger than himself and much fitter to enjoy the world.
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