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Meanings of pay the forfeit in English

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Usage of pay the forfeit in English
1
His life would pay the forfeit of the folly of his fellow-stationers.
The Frontiersmen
2
He could never pay the forfeit of his life-butby that life.
The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico
3
She knew that if Bill interfered his life would pay the forfeit.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest
4
You must pay the forfeit, or your thimble remains in my possession!
The Fatal Glove
5
If he leave this place alive, let my life pay the forfeit!
French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America
6
I have broken the law and I will pay the forfeit.'
The Spinners' Book of Fiction
7
You will do as I command or your life will pay the forfeit.
Mischievous Maid Faynie
8
I have been rash, but she shall not pay the forfeit.
The Guardian Angel
9
Is he to pay the forfeit, and awing at the yard-arm?
The Privateersman
10
Lentulus Crus, you, too, shall pay the forfeit of your crimes!
A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
11
The game was up; there remained only to pay the forfeit without a grimace.
To Have and to Hold
12
I will be the emperor, if my life pay the forfeit of the exertion.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
13
And now the woman's life was to pay the forfeit of my lax softness.
Montlivet
14
He is going to pay the forfeit: it will be paid in five minutes more.
A Tale of Two Cities
15
He himself is the one to pay the forfeit.
Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
16
Yet soothly were I liefer that my body and my skin should pay the forfeit.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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