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I will do nothing to forefend the consequences.

Massachusetts Superior Court hearings before Judge Carol Ball began in July, purposefully early to forefend a last minute rush.

"Moreover take the assurance that I certainly am religious, and if I should ever have the misfortune (which God will forefend) to go astray, I shall acquit you, best of fathers, from all blame.

If we're not careful, we'll bring down wrath no god can forfend.

Seeming to forfend criticism of the new work, she says: "It's not being sensational.

"He's not in a position to forfend anything.

"Gods forfend you should have lifted anything yourself."

Not so, my lord; the gods of Rome forfend I should be author to dishonour you!

Now heavens forfend such scarcity of youth!

O heavens forfend!

Heavens forfend!

"Havens forfend," Kayla said dryly.

O, forfend it, God, That in a Christian climate souls refined Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!

ESP: What precautions are being taken to forfend against error in the extrasensory perception research as conducted at Duke University?

Lar Lubovitch's "Othello," a full-length ballet from 1997, calls to mind an anguished line from that Shakespeare tragedy: "O heavens forfend!"

"But the existence of the book in this museum does not forfend a trip to see the original, to be in the presence of the actual manuscript made by medieval Irish monks."

Yet she could not rid herself: something mistaken, unbearably piteous, infinitely malign was at large within that faithfulness; she was helpless to forfend it or even to know its nature.

EMILIA I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak: My mistress here lies murder'd in her bed,-- All O heavens forfend!

Dear Gods forfend I should e'er yield myself chattel to the man I wed: but neither could I be fool enough to wed with such a man as I could bring down to be chattel of mine.

To that end, I have taken certain measures. . . ." She heard Wolfe's robes rustle as he sat heavily, chanced a look at him, saw from his face that the worst was yet to come and he had done his best to forfend it.

But then, of course, The Artist doesn't have famous American or British actors in it, unlike The Great Gatsby, so heaven forfend it should be used to illustrate anything in the American or British press, no matter how good it is.

Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a "tendency to progression" "adaptations from the slow willing of animals" but the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his - though the means of change are wholly so - I think I have found out (here's presumption!)

Here's Darwin saying in a letter to a friend Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a tendency to progression and indeed, Darwin's view was the contrary to this, and here's another quote from Darwin,after long reflection, I cannot avoid the conviction that no innate tendency to development exists.

He wrote, "The question both of our right and our power to prevent it, if necessary, by force, already obtrudes itself upon our councils, and the administration is called upon, in the performance of its duties to the nation, at least to use all the means with the competency to guard against and forfend it."

If your more ponderous and settled project May suffer alteration, on mine honour, I'll point you where you shall have such receiving As shall become your Highness; where you may Enjoy your mistress, from the whom, I see, There's no disjunction to be made but by, As heavens forfend!