Use forgive in a sentence
Sentences starting with forgive
- Forgive me, if you can. [11]
- Forgive the past-the wrong of it, the shame of it. [11]
- Forgive me for writing so freely. [4]
- Forgive my pride--what was left of it. [5]
- Forgive my freedom of speech, but who knows what to-morrow may bring forth--and I would not for worlds go out to battle, thinking evil of you. [10]
- Forgive me if I have caused you unpleasantness. [2]
- Forgive me, Richard, I have been worse than silly. [9]
- Forgive me if I begin with things that seem dead and gone; but they are not, for they live and work in me to this hour. [10]
- Forgive me for heaven's sake... [2]
- Forgive me, wholly, freely. [10]
Sentences ending with forgive
- Chrysilla was acquainted with life, and knew that Eros never mingles more arbitrarily in the intercourse of a young couple than when, after a long separation, there is anything whatever to forgive. [10]
- His desertion of William Pitt I found hard to forgive. [9]
- I told my wife that I begged her to forget the past, to forgive me whatever wrong I may have done her, and that I had nothing to forgive. [2]
- He who hoped to be forgiven by his neighbor must also be ready to forgive. [10]
- It was unfortunate that Mallow won from him three-fourths of the money he had brought to the club, and won it with a smile not easy to forgive. [11]
- If you think someone has wronged you, forget it and forgive! [2]
- Also de English soldier die in peace and happy, becos' he tink his sins are forgive. [11]
- He was baptized, so she longs to win, by her prayers and oblations, the mercy of the Lord who is so ready to forgive. [10]
- How then can she forgive? [11]
- Many things have occurred which the king will not forgive! [10]
Short sentences using forgive
- But I forgive ye, Tom. [5]
- They forgive everything to it. [6]
- Won't you forgive me? [9]
- Do you forgive me? [5]
- You must forgive me. [5]
- Oh, angels forgive me! [5]
- I'll never forgive him. [9]
- You'll forgive my frankness, Honora. [9]
- There's nothing to forgive. [9]
- There's nothing to forgive. [13]
Sentences containing forgive two or more times
- Be thankful if you can forgive yourself; I never can forgive myself. [5]
- Only yesterday this would have roused her wrath; to-day she could forgive him; for she could forgive anything to this unhappy soul--to the man on whom she had brought such deep anguish. [10]
- Come--smooth your brow; think of the approaching victory, of our return home, and remember that you have less to forgive Paaker than he to forgive you. [10]
- The gods forgive the sins of the wise, and a man will not forgive the fault committed by a stupid lad in a moment of imprudence. [10]
- Tell him only that I beg him to forgive, forgive, forgive me for everything...." She trembled all over and sat down on a chair. [2]
- Do not, do not speak to me--unless I am not to lose you again; unless I am to know that now you forgive me--that you forgive me--and wish me to live--my wife! [11]
- But you forgive me--say you forgive me. [5]
- An' you forgive me, Hinry darlin', you forgive me? [11]
- A woman can forgive passion and ruin, and worse, if the man loves her, and she can forgive herself, remembering that to her who loved much, much was forgiven. [11]
- Forgive me, master, forgive me! [10]
More example sentences with the word forgive in them
- You can forgive your wife, and take her back, or you can say to both, Go! [11]
- Will you forgive your mother, my dear, for speaking to you? [11]
- Your father needs you--I--I should never forgive myself if you left. [9]
- Paula will forgive you, too; I know her--you will see. [10]
- He'll never forgive you no more than she. [9]
- I'll never forgive you if you don't. [12]
- I know that you have felt hard towards me for turning over the canoe, and for knowing too much and leading you round and round in the snow--but I meant well; forgive me. [5]
- I just forgive you everything for that! [5]
- The false witness you bore will cost poor Hiram his life: but the merciful Saviour may forgive you at last. [10]
- If I am wrong, forgive me--if I am right, your punishment will hardly be lighter than my fate. [10]
- Then you will write a touching letter, in which you will forgive all those recent Browns. [5]
- And not a word of this to my daughter, Monsieur," he added apprehensively; "she would never forgive me. [9]
- My clerical friends will forgive me for poaching on their sacred territory, in return for an occasional raid upon the medical domain of which they have now and then been accused. [3]
- Some day I will come back and you will forgive me. [9]
- They forgive those who have wronged them as easily as they forget those who have done them good service. [6]
- Still, the doubt whether he might not, after all, be magnanimous and forgive her, rose again and again to her mind, though everything led her to think it impossible. [10]
- I reckon that when he resolved to fight, himself, he thought he might get killed and not have a chance to forgive me any more in this life, so he made the will again, and I've seen it, and it's all right. [5]
- When he gets well and plump, I know he will forgive me if I confess that I could not help smiling in the midst of my sympathy for him. [6]
- It's not his way to forgive and forget. [10]
- I am not vain enough to suppose that I could win her heart, but unfortunately there are many who cannot forgive the power of attraction which she exerts over me as well as upon all. [10]
- I have never used that expression before, and I beg you will forgive it this time. [5]
- The most of us can learn to forgive, and even to like, a countenance that strikes us unpleasantly at first, but few of us, I fancy, become reconciled to a jarring name so easily. [5]
- But all has turned out well--only that Argutis, whom every one treats as if our old Macedonian blood ran in his veins, was sent yesterday by Melissa with finer flowers for Caracalla's cenotaph than for her own mother's tomb--May her new-fangled god forgive her! [10]
- They were hurt to the heart, poor old ladies, and said they could never forgive these injuries. [5]
- Her father wished to have him for a son, and would forgive her if she gave him the hand for which he shed. [10]
- Bern, it's divine to forgive your enemies. [13]
- Calling on Him to forgive our work, badly done or left undone, implies the vain supposition that we have nothing to do but to ask pardon, and that afterwards we shall be free to repeat the offence. [5]
- I beg you to forgive me. [2]
- It helps him to forgive himself more or less for what he's sorry for in life. [11]
- This much had to be said for him, that he did not think Jean Jacques contemptible because he had been merciful, or degraded because he had chosen to forgive his wife. [11]
- I merely mean to ask you to forgive me. [9]
- Only a short time ago she had frankly thrown her arms around his neck if she wanted him to gratify a wish or forgive an offence without ever receiving a response to her affection. [10]
- Only tell her this, that I, Paulus, gave him this wound in a moment of rage, and to forgive me if she can, she and Petrus. [10]
- We shall forgive this also to your youth and penitence. [4]
- There are some things of mine that you will keep for your son, if you forgive me dead whom you despised living. [11]
- And just before they made a prisoner of Laforce, she said to him very quietly--so like a woman she was--"I will give you back the basket, and the riding-whip, and the other things, and I will never forgive you--never--no, never! [11]
- You will forgive the unwilling wrong I have done you, but you will make your place in life without thought of me. [11]
- You must forgive the trouble I have put you to," said Pierre, and seeing Savelich smile, he thought: "But how strange it is that he should not know that now there is no Petersburg for me, and that that must be settled first of all! [2]
- Do you think the Ry of Rys will forgive that? [11]
- Fresh tears, and the other means of conciliation inspired by her loving heart, then induced the angry lover to forgive her. [10]
- Everything that bore the name of Egyptian was hateful or suspicious to the Roman, and it was hard to forgive this woman, born on the banks of the Nile, for having seen Julius Caesar at her feet and compelled Mark Antony to do her bidding. [10]
- It is in the Bible that we must forgive our neighbour--how many times? [9]
- I didn't mean that; it was out before I thought, and I'm very, very sorry--you must forgive me! [5]
- You can't forgive that,--I won't believe it! [6]
- But you forgive that, don't you? [11]
- But you'll forgive that momentary weakness, and forget it. [5]
- I believe now that I left the key myself in the door of the Apis-tombs last evening, and I will send at once to Asclepiodorus, so that he may beg the Egyptians up there to forgive me--they are indebted to me for many small jobs. [10]
- I could see that he did forgive me with all his heart, and this Petrus stands in the midst of life, and is busy early and late with mere worldly affairs. [10]
- The fact is, that gardening is the old fable of perpetual labor; and I, for one, can never forgive Adam Sisyphus, or whoever it was, who let in the roots of discord. [4]
- Suppose she should summon courage to steal back to him and on her knees repentantly beseech him to forgive her? [10]
- Then he spoke summat to her that was there to forgive him and help him over the stile 'twixt this field and it that's Beyond and Away, which made her cry out in pain and say that he must fix his thoughts on other things. [11]
- He failed in strength to forgive, and the senator who has just now left me, and whose innocent son I had so badly hurt, when we parted forgivingly gave me his hand. [10]
- Afterwards in the strange confusion, in my blind helplessness I tried to say, "But he loved me," and I tried to forgive you. [11]
- If I said something sharp just now, please forgive me. [11]
- If he did so, he would have to appear to forgive her in spite of what she had said to him. [9]
- He asked his sister to forgive him for not having told her of his resolve when he had last visited Bald Hills, though he had spoken of it to his father. [2]
- But a man should not and cannot forgive and forget," he replied, and though till that moment he had not been thinking of Kuragin, all his unexpended anger suddenly swelled up in his heart. [2]
- But now he shed tears--tears that it lightened her aching heart to see--and making as though he would fall upon his knees, besought her to forgive him. [12]
- I knew that she would never forgive the wrong I did Hanno. [10]
- He reflected, with shame, that it was also cheaper to punish than forgive him. [8]
- Forgive, if my sentences be broken and imperfect; the time was short, and my capacity only that of a poor and simple maiden. [10]
- And I might see her in that guise again, egad, I would forgive Tom his five hundred crowns! [9]
- Your blindness--your damned religion!...Jane, forgive me--I'm sore within and something rankles. [13]
- Her reproach was public, the world knew it, and no woman can forgive a public shame, even was it brought about by a man she loved, or loves. [11]
- He continually hurt Princess Mary's feelings and tormented her, but it cost her no effort to forgive him. [2]
- But she was prepared to forgive New York a few sins in the matter of commercial slang: New York, which evidently dressed as it liked, and talked as it liked. [9]
- She was to persuade the smith to forgive his wife, with whose praises her son's lips were overflowing. [10]
- Sandie, the plodding peasant, finds it a hard matter to forgive Jamie, who is taken from the plough next to his, and ends in Parliament. [9]
- Satan set an ox down that he had been making, and smiled up at me and said: "It wouldn't be a rudeness, and I should forgive it if it was. [5]
- She could pass over, but never forgive what her aunt had said to her that afternoon. [9]
- It isn't all over either, for O'Ryan will forget and forgive, and Jopp won't. [11]
- I have kept out of her sight as much as I could, all these weeks, hoping she would forget that and forgive it --but I know she never will. [5]
- Nothing but love ought to move his heart on the eve of a union with Him whom he had just called Love itself, and with earnest and tender entreaties he besought Eva to forgive him for the censure which was also a work of love. [10]
- Time would move on, and Madame Chalice might forget that wild remark, but she never would forgive it, and she never wished to do so. [11]
- She then fell on her knees and prayed to the gods of her fathers to forgive her for her apostasy from them. [10]
- You are an old and faithful servant, to whom I owe a great deal, and so I will forgive you if you were taken in by his artifices, but I must know the truth. [10]
- The "great love" of which he had spoken to Katharina was legible in every line of his letter, and any woman can forgive any man--were he a sinner, and a scarecrow into the bargain--for his audacity in loving her. [10]
- For the sake of that, I forgive you. [5]
- For the sake of his love she would forgive much, but she could not forget the humiliation she had experienced. [10]
- But the suffering of a person whom we have once loved possesses a reconciling power, and he who usually forgot no insult, even after the lapse of years, was again disposed to forgive her, and reverted to the wish to continue to enjoy her singing. [10]
- The old woman observed it and exclaimed: "Ay, ay, such a sight makes one forgive a great deal"; but he turned his back on her in silence, and joined his friend at the appointed spot. [10]
- What could she not decide for the individual by virtue of the power she arrogates to bind and to loose, to forgive sins, and to open or to close the door of heaven for the dying? [10]
- Paula, however, would not allow her to finish; she lifted her up, kissed her forehead, and said that she quite understood how she had been led into it, and that she, like Mary, would try to forgive her. [10]
- He knew that no woman could ever forgive the blunder he had made--not a blunder of love but a blunder of self-will and an unmanly, unmannerly conceit. [11]
- It is by no means impossible, and I hope the manes of the deceased will forgive me for your sake. [10]
- Oh, I have never forgiven you,"--the smile that there was no resisting belied his words as he put his face close to mine--"I never will forgive you. [9]
- She herself 'd never forgive you for it, if ever she grew up--though that's not likely, things bein' as they are with you, and you bein' what you are. [11]
- Oh, I shall never forgive Comyn for his meddling! [9]
- Perhaps she would never begin the world with me again, but I should like to hear her say, 'I forgive you. [11]
- I said to myself, the master will never forgive. [5]
- I'd never forgive myself, as long as I lived, if I lost one of my oldest and most valued personal friends in this way. [9]
- Only too like my own; and, since I understand you, I find it easy to forgive you. [10]
- It is so much easier to forgive a failure than a success. [4]
- But at that moment I could not forgive her for humiliating me. [9]
- I did not mean it--oh, forgive your Rosalie! [11]
- And you'll forgive me, won't you, for being so horrid to-day, of all days? [9]
- Do not punish me, but forgive me--and let me go. [11]
- And you forgive me, bless me, for reply. [11]
- You will forgive me, and not trouble yourself, or imagine that I am one whit worse than I say. [14]
- Write and tell me that you forgive and pity me. [9]
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