"Forfend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Heaven forfend!" I exclaimed. So I presently turned and rowed back upstream, not a little perturbed in my mind as to the ...
— My Lady Caprice • Jeffrey Farnol
... as she walked by came up to me and said, "This is none other than a great absence." I replied, "I have been on a journey;" and she asked, "Why didst thou wink at the Turkoman?" I answered, "Allah forfend! I did not wink at him." Quoth she, "Beware lest thou thwart me;" and went away. Awhile after this a familiar of mine invited me to his house and when I came to him, we ate and drank and chatted. Then he asked me, "O my friend, hath there befallen thee aught of sore trouble in the length of thy ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... "Not a tittle. Heaven forfend! A sheet and a turnip are poetry to their manifestations. It's as crude and sour soil for us to work on as any I ...
— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes
... state treasury—demanding the rewards of industry and thrift which they have been too weak and shiftless and useless to earn. But Canada is at the parting of the ways. The day more men live in the cities demanding food than live on the soil producing it—which God forfend—that day Canada goes down in the welter of industrial war and ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut
... fight I will do so, lady, but even should I not return the news will travel swiftly; but God forfend that so great a loss should ...
— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty
... manner. The people who know everything, and imagine they cannot be taught, are just the people who know very little and who will never learn more. "Duffers" they are, and "duffers" they will be, to the end of their days. Every sensible man, even should he rival Methusaleh—which heaven forfend!—must be learning Art (even should he teach) all ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne
... heauen forfend, the holy Maid with child? War. The greatest miracle that ere ye wrought. Is all your strict precisenesse come to this? Yorke. She and the Dolphin haue bin iugling, I did imagine what would be ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare |
