"Forfeit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at him with dilated eyes. Every impulse in her terrified heart warned her to turn and fly from the place, but it was all in vain. She could not have moved hand or foot if her very life had been the forfeit. ...
— Mischievous Maid Faynie • Laura Jean Libbey
... remained in prison. During all that time Lucie was never sure but that her husband's head would be struck off next day. When at length arraigned as an emigrant whose life was forfeit to the Republic, he pleaded that he had come back to save a citizen's life. That night he sat by the fire with his family, a free man. Lucie at last was ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... It was then that History as we understand it began to be understood, and the illustrious dynasty of scholars arose to whom we still look both for method and material. Unlike the dreaming prehistoric world, ours knows the need and the duty to make itself master of the earlier times, and to forfeit nothing of their wisdom or their warnings 15, and has devoted its best energy and treasure to the sovereign purpose of detecting error and vindicating entrusted ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... Brunhilda, queen of Iceland. Fair was she of face and strong beyond compare. If a knight would woo and win her he must surpass her in three contests: leaping, hurling the spear and pitching the stone. If he failed in even one, he must forfeit his life. ...
— Famous Men of the Middle Ages • John H. Haaren
... natives were perfectly in the right. At that time, the law against the traffic in ardent spirits (every now and then suspended and revived) happened to be in force; and finding a large quantity on the premises of Victor, a low, knavish adventurer from Marseilles, the Tahitians pronounced it forfeit. ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
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