What is "forbes"

Usage examples of "forbes".

Forbes, as will appear from the following particulars of the trial of Rose Cullender and Ann Duny in 1664.

Mary then went to get the tea, and Mrs Forbes having left the room for a moment to recover that self-possession, the loss of which is peculiarly objectionable to a Scotchwoman, Annie was left seated on a footstool before the bright fire, the shadows from which were now dancing about the darkening room, and Alec lay on the sofa looking at her.

But he was built of tough fiber, and resolutely refused an invitation to visit the Sutherlandshire glen in which Forbes and his daughter were sedulously nursing to health and strength the dear wife and mother whose nervous system had suffered far more than she permitted to become known under the stress and strain of the kidnaping experience.

It would be a good country to settle in, I thought, and after the overcrowded ship, after the grime and damp of Liverpool, Anna and Heinrich must be thinking Captain Forbes had brought them to heaven after their suffering on the long, desperate voyage.

Lord Forbes had drugged her and her imprisonment--of how he had constantly insisted that she would marry him, come what may, revealing all the things that had hurt her, for it was necessary that Amelia knew the full extent of her suffering.

Epistle to Lord Viscount Forbes, which describes perhaps more faithfully, as well as more powerfully, the political state of America, than any thing that has ever been written upon it.

As the late Edward Forbes often insisted, there is a striking parallelism in the laws of life throughout time and space: the laws governing the succession of forms in past times being nearly the same with those governing at the present time the differences in different areas.

The former influence of the glacial climate on the distribution of the inhabitants of Europe, as explained with remarkable clearness by Edward Forbes, is substantially as follows.

There had been men who had attempted to change her attitude, but she had always firmly and determinedly rebuffed them, making it clear that they were wasting their time, and she had no idea why on earth a man like Nicholas Forbes with a wife as attractive as Clarissa Forbes should show any interest in a woman like her, who could not afford to dress in anything other than the cheapest chain store clothes, who could never afford the money or the time to visit a hairdresser or beauty salon, whose hands were serviceable rather than elegant, with short unpainted nails--hands which were far more used to the hard realities of life than the sensual pleasures.

She doubted if Clarissa Forbes had ever wanted for anything in her entire life.

The woman had just paid her bill and was on the point of departing with her purchases when the shop door opened, and when she looked up Tania saw Clarissa Forbes walking in, accompanied by two boys who were obviously her sons.

She looked up with a smile that faded to sharp apprehension as she saw Clarissa Forbes walking into the shop.

It seems Clarissa Forbes happened to see Lucy walking down the street and picked her up.

Margaret Cooper in more need of your advice, than Jane Colter, or Betsy Barnes, or Susan Mason, or Rebecca Forbes, or even the widow Thackeray.

Calvert, I think it's mighty strange that you should think Margaret Cooper in more need of your advice, than Jane Colter, or Betsy Barnes, or Susan Mason, or Rebecca Forbes, or even the widow Thackeray.