forfend

"Now, Heaven forfend," quoth he, "that Robin Hood has fallen into the clutches of a King's man!

"Now, Reynold Greenleaf," quoth the Sheriff, "thou art the fairest hand at the longbow that mine eyes ever beheld, next to that false knave, Robin Hood, from whose wiles Heaven forfend me!

"Heaven forfend that such a thing should come to pass!" said Alleyne.

"Fate forfend!" he exclaimed, his face going white under the blood that now nearly covered it.

Norman of Torn, if you are not the son of the old man you call father may God forfend that England ever guesses your true parentage.

And I don't believe there would be a mad rush to the altar if, heaven forfend, Cameron walks into Number 10 four weeks from today.

The one non-economist was Richard Lambert, a journalist, heaven forfend. He was a rather special journalist, who had edited the Financial Times.

And, heaven forfend, that great Scots hero William Wallace - as portrayed ludicrously by actor Mel Gibson, raised in Oz but born in New York - could have hailed from Snowdonia's slopes as the name stems from le Waleis meaning "the Welshman".

Selling Santon, for example, was good business for the CLUB, not for the team, or the head coach, or - heaven forfend - the supporter's aspirations, just the balance sheets.

When Obama took power he fed the lie that any child in America could grow up to be president - a black, a Hispanic and, heaven forfend, a woman.

What would happen if ever he took the wrong decision for the pension system, or anything else, heaven forfend. No matter, he won't, not so that he would notice.

Heaven forfend but the funeral has also obliged the possible future head of the Church of England to switch the time of his marriage ceremony to fragrant but divorced Camilla, while the Sweet Prince jostles with the anguished throng in the Vatican.