Lexicographical Neighbors of Forlorns
Literary usage of Forlorns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1846)
"In pursuance hereof, we also advise and order, that you be very careful in your
marches in or near the enemy's country, by keeping out scouts and forlorns ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"Such was the singular address of these two gentlemen, that the first notice to
the garrison was the forlorns plunging into the canai. ..."
3. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society (1846)
"In pursuance hereof, we also advise and order, that you be very careful in your
marches in or near the enemy's country, by keeping out scouts and forlorns ..."
4. Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as a by Julian Stafford Corbett (1898)
"As the light grew it was soon evident to the main force, as from the edge of the
cliff they watched the progress of the forlorns in the street below, ..."
5. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). Governor (1801-1804 : Clinton), New York (State). State Historian (1901)
"forlorns. but was thrown out by the alteration of the disposition of the battle.
cc_- ducted himself perfectly soldier-like. The whole of the officers ..."
6. Colonial Prose and Poetry by William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells (1903)
"... and also to be as scouts and forlorns to the English ; for the Indians generally
excel in a quick and strong sight for the discovery of any thing ..."
7. The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination by Cotton Mather, Robert Calef (1866)
"... of our afflicted forlorns! And, Who can certainly fay, what other Degrees or
Methods of finning, ..."
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