Forebore

Jasper was walking about among them alone, but I forebore to join him.

With this she threw herself, sobbing, upon a sofa, and Louise and Beth, shocked to learn that after all their cousin had conspired against them, forebore any attempt to comfort her.

Out of pity she forebore, and he went on.

The advent of the mobile phone gradually wore that addiction down to the point that I forebore to have a landline number activated every time I moved adresses^([sic]) or rented another flat.