Our king has forbidden us to eat meat or drink wine under pain of death.

"That the king has forbidden your lordship to have any pointed instrument."

But the soldier curtly refused, saying the king had forbidden any messages to be carried.

The king forbids his wife and daughters to spin again.

Taverner even hid some books which the king had forbidden under the floor, and he got into trouble for doing this.

The French king forbade the Order soon after its founding.

The new king has forbidden that men should fight, nor may they take their just revenge.

The king forbade her children to wear mourning for her.

'No,' said the boy, 'I will not do that; the king has forbidden it,' and ran away.

Indeed, for a time the king forbade anyone to cut Maine's trees for any other purpose.