1 For, provided your army be kept together, you do not, in losing what you voluntarily abandon, forfeit your military reputation, or sacrifice your hopes of final success.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXVII. 2 His force, and the state of war he put himself in, made him forfeit his life, but gave me no title to his goods.
3 I am conquered: my life, it is true, as forfeit, is at mercy, but not my wife's and children's.
4 I could not forfeit their lives; they were not mine to forfeit.
5 My wife had a share in my estate; that neither could I forfeit.
6 Nor do Teucrians alone pay forfeit of their blood; once and again valour returns even in conquered hearts, and the victorious Grecians fall.
7 Now let him perish, and pay forfeit to the Trojans of his innocent blood.
8 Take these, and draw from the quiver an avenging shaft; by it shall he pay me forfeit of his blood, whoso, Trojan or Italian alike, shall sully her sacred body with a wound.
9 Jupiter himself holds up the two scales in even balance, and lays in them the different fates of both, trying which shall pay forfeit of the strife, whose weight shall sink in death.
10 What Edward had done to forfeit the right of eldest son, might have puzzled many people to find out; and what Robert had done to succeed to it, might have puzzled them still more.
11 It was right that I should pay the forfeit of my headlong passion.
12 A truant provincial was paying the forfeit of his disobedience, by being plundered of those very effects which had caused him to desert his place in the ranks.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 13 If you leave, you forfeit your whole position forever.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 14 "Another forfeit for a Gallicism," said a Russian writer who was present.
15 He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.