Men thus Forgone will oft Grow milder through the counsel of a friend.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
The mean, cringing coward is unskilled at his trade: the true coward is the fat knight who, no sooner convicted of embellishing his fight with highwaymen, of having Forgone his booty rather than defend it, can roar that he fears and will obey no man, and solemnly say: ''Zounds!
"A Novelist on Novels"
W. L. George
Mary felt that she could have Forgone this display of animal good temper, but seeing that Ralph, for some curious reason, took a pride in the sparrows, she bet him sixpence that he would not succeed.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf