When Repton drew the picture of the tenantry, forsaken and neglected, the poor unnoticed, and the sick uncared for, he still forgot to assign me my place in the sad 'tableau,' and show that in destitution my lot was equal to their own; the very poorest and meanest had yet some spot, poor and mean though it were, they called a home, that Mary Martin was the only one an outcast!
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Yet the fact that at this forsaken spot human hands had once built shelter, or for this thing had constructed a grave, gave me a certain companionable thrill.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Even when driven from Major Dudley's home he had not forsaken the idea that some day this fair young thing should be his.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey