The richest experience, the purest aspiration, the humblest self-abandonment that was ever felt, could not reach forward to supply the morrow.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
It has left him incapable of what may be called abandonment.
"Open Water"
Arthur Stringer
Then into this sealed and hidden silence, a voice crying from an upper room, suddenly fell-a woman in the abandonment of utter pain, pain beyond all control, was screaming.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole