Sentence examples for I forbear to from inspiring English sources

In Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, the Bellman says: :"For England Expects — I forbear to proceed.

I cannot forbear to mention what he spoke, being so prophetical, not only as to the judgment of God coming on Major-general Adderton, but as to their putting any more Quakers to death after they had passed sentence on him".

I can't forbear to point out that Thomas Jefferson's verbatim recipe for ice cream includes an "it's" that ought to be an "its".

I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

I propose a more edifying element of measurement, one that followers of this page can scarce forbear to cheer: reading.

He could scarce forbear to dream: Gordon Brown, the governor of the new National Bank of Scotland.

Even the Twelve Tribes could scarce forbear to cheer this explicit recognition of their usually ignored presence within Jamaican society.

Besides, why should the company forbear to serenade it customers when it does not hesitate to warble at its own employees?

The researchers forbear to ask whether being chatted up by a man is so boring that a woman needs the effects of pheromones to stay awake.

But even he can scarce forbear to cheer the dash of the confederacy's cavalry and the resilience of its infantry.

Like Macaulay's ranks of Tuscany, their players, with a minute or so to go, could scarce forbear to hug and cavort.