Left in the lurch

Usage examples of forsaken.

Aes Sedai here, the only Aes Sedai to have killed one of the Forsaken, much less two.

One of the Forsaken, trapped with her own overweening pride and held prisoner in the midst of Aes Sedai.

All he knew was that now, two hundred light-years from Carida, he was assigned to a detachment of storm-troopers, setting off for some forsaken planet.

Frenchmen who had rotted either in the hulks or in Dartmoor for eleven long years, forgotten and forsaken by their country, their families, and their friends.

O my Lord, who hath forgotten all else but Thee, and turned towards the Dayspring of Thy grace, who hath forsaken all save Thyself in the hope of drawing nigh unto Thy court.

But there the face of things was changed: Faenza at that time was under the rule of Astor Manfredi, a brave and handsome young man of eighteen, who, relying on the love of his subjects towards his family, had resolved on defending himself to the uttermost, although he had been forsaken by the Bentivagli, his near relatives, and by his allies, the Venetian and Florentines, who had not dared to send him any aid because of the affection felt towards Caesar by the King of France.

The lodges were forsaken, and the fivescore or so members of the tribe gave tongue to their folk-chants in honor of their guest.

It was a wild, forsaken road, now winding through dreary pine barrens, where the wind whispered mournfully, and now over log causeways, through long cypress swamps, the doleful trees rising out of the slimy, spongy ground, hung with long wreaths of funeral black moss, while ever and anon the loathsome form of the mocassin snake might be seen sliding among broken stumps and shattered branches that lay here and there, rotting in the water.

During his lifetime Aran made observations based on cycles of various multiples of forty years without discovering any indications that one of the Forsaken was loose in the world at those intervals.

Jews would still have been excluded from all civil and military offices, as well as from other privileges enjoyed by their christian brethren, in all probability they would have gradually forsaken their own unprofitable and obstinate infidelity, opened their eyes to the shining truths of the gospel, and joined their fellow-subjects in embracing the doctrines of Christianity.

Nearer and nearer it came, bobbing to the rise and fall of each wavelet with the last icy sunlight touching it up with reds and golds, nearer and nearer in the deadly hush of that forsaken region, and then at last so near it showed quite plainly on the purple water, a raft with some one sitting under a canopy.

The fields of maize gave way to great open spaces of tangled railway lines, factories, sidings, wayside platforms, some of them bombed and abandoned, and busily growing rosebay willow-herb like any forsaken station at home.

Others of them fained that they were forsaken, and seemed to flie and go awaie from them, whom dearely they did affect, and then was there running one after another with loud laughters, and effeminate criengs out, their faire tresses spredding downe ouer their snowie shoulders like threeds of gold, bound in laces of greene silke: Some loose after a Nymphish maner, others bounde vp in attyres of golde set with pearle.

Many one-time activists have forsaken politics entirely and turned to drugs.

This inland expanse of deserted straths, forsaken glens, and desolate lochs is where the impact of the Highland Clearances is most readily apparent.