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27 example sentences for FORBADE, such as:

1. This seemed profane, and the prioress forbade it.
2. The rising sea forbade all attempts to bale out the boat.
3. As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink.
4. Trees, confronting him, stretched out their arms and forbade him to pass.
5. He strictly forbade her to ask any of the girls she knew to stay with her at night.

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1  He was so affronted at a Butler becoming a gambler that when I came home for the first time, he forbade my mother to see me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
2  Had he helped himself at that table, doubtless, never more would he have been able to hold his head up in this honest world; nevertheless, strange to say, Ahab never forbade him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
3  The rising sea forbade all attempts to bale out the boat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
4  He strictly forbade her to ask any of the girls she knew to stay with her at night.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
5  The law forbade Sunday drinking; and this had delivered the saloon-keepers into the hands of the police, and made an alliance between them necessary.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
6  The law forbade prostitution; and this had brought the "madames" into the combination.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
7  We met but three times, when Mr. West and Mr. Fairbanks, both class-leaders, with many others, came upon us with sticks and other missiles, drove us off, and forbade us to meet again.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  Trees, confronting him, stretched out their arms and forbade him to pass.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
9  This seemed profane, and the prioress forbade it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
10  That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was one of those dead to whom nothing is refused.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
11  As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
12  After having well beaten him, he forbade him to leave his service without his permission.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
13  Nor was he disappointed, for that shortsighted woman actually gave him a lump of sugar, tucked him into his bed, and forbade any more promenades till morning.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
14  She continued either delirious or lethargic; and the doctor forbade everything which could painfully excite her.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  But there was still something lurking behind, of which prudence forbade the disclosure.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40
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