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Sentences ending with forgetfulness

I took up the wash-list, as if to see that it was all right, and then tossed it on the table, with pretended forgetfulness. [5]
The dog's howl suggested a new idea to his poor tortured brain, thirsting for forgetfulness. [10]
Yet now she seemed not to know why she had not written, and to blame herself for neglect and forgetfulness. [11]
The huge brute puts up with a great deal from his small companion, but woe betide the dog if the tiger once pats him with his heavy, murderous paw--and he might, out of sheer forgetfulness! [10]
And suddenly, as he spoke of Les Isles, I remembered the note Mademoiselle had given me for him, and I apologized for my forgetfulness. [9]
He would fain have gone to the nearest tavern and there left it to the wine to bring forgetfulness. [10]
With a haughty gesture she beckoned to the steward, saying in Italian: "Give the gentleman his cloak, Belotti, and tell him I came to beg him to pardon your forgetfulness. [10]
She wished she could go down like that into forgetfulness. [9]
He had come back to the verge, he had almost again discovered himself; but the opening door had shut fast suddenly, and he was back again in the night, the incompanionable night of forgetfulness. [11]

More example sentences with the word forgetfulness in them

He felt that when the next test came the old man would either break completely, and sink down into another and everlasting forgetfulness, or tear away forever the veil between himself and his past, and emerge into a long-lost life. [11]
So complete, now, was his forgetfulness of self, of his future, of the irrevocable consequences of the step he had taken, that it was only gradually he became aware that some one was standing near him, and with a start he recognized McCrae. [9]
When I was twenty-three I wanted to squeeze the orange dry in a handful of years, and then go out suddenly, and let the dust of forgetfulness cover my bones. [11]
However, I had to smile at my own forgetfulness when I got nearer and read this sign on his tabard: "Persimmon's Soap -- All the Prime-Donna Use It. [5]
He composed himself to sleep, but, as he lay waiting for that coverlet of forgetfulness to be drawn over him, he heard the sound of bells soft and clear. [11]
Loose me from the mast, and let the storm and wave wash me out into the sea of your forgetfulness now--or never! [11]
Merriment, forgetfulness, music, the dance; the cup of pleasure and the feast of Babylon--these might more readily have been vouchsafed; even deemed to have been bargained for. [9]
There was something striking in the kind of forgetfulness by which he suffered. [6]
He would not soon have remembered this, such was his state of forgetfulness, had he not halfway up the hill stumbled upon his groom, who had been to look for him in the town and was returning to the inn. [2]
By common report she is endowed with more than earthly powers; and since he cannot have the boon of death, he appeals to her to drown his memory in forgetfulness of his griefs--forgetfulness 'which is death's equivalent'. [5]
But the small servant immediately pausing in her talk, he subsided again, and pleading a momentary forgetfulness of their compact, entreated her to proceed. [12]
At first, the remembrance of her contained nothing save bitterness, but now, by quiet, persistent effort, he had succeeded, not in attaining forgetfulness, but in being able to separate painful emotions from the pure and exquisite joy of remembering her. [10]
I beg your pardon for being a bore to one I so deeply love and admire, to whom I owe days and days of forgetfulness of self and troubles and the intensest of all joys: Hero-worship! [5]
Let the dust of forgetfulness come and cover the past. [11]
It did not occur to her that these reasons would vanish like mist--that a wilful woman would sweep them into the basket of forgetfulness, and do what she wished in spite of reason: that all else would be sacrificed, if the spirit so possessed her. [11]
The sardonic critic might ask why she did not seek forgetfulness in flight; why she remained in Jamaica where was what she wished to forget. [11]
She could not, like Lise, find joy and forgetfulness at dance halls, at the "movies," at Slattery's Riverside Park in summer, in "joy rides" with the Max Wylies of Hampton. [9]
I do not know how long I was in a state of forgetfulness, but it seemed an age. [5]
Startled, he confessed it to his grey-haired guide, and used the means which the Minorite advised him to employ to attain forgetfulness and renunciation, but always in vain. [10]
He remembers vividly how at first his gorge rose, and recalls how gradually there crept over him a forgetfulness of the squalidity and discomfort. [9]
Wine should bring him forgetfulness, too, bless him again with the sense of joyous existence which he knew so well, and which he now seemed on the point of losing. [10]
For she threw herself into her new labours with the desperate energy that seeks forgetfulness, not daring to pause to think about herself, to reflect upon what the future might hold for her when the strike should be over. [9]
He had many griefs, but the minor ones were swept almost into forgetfulness by the supreme one, the loss of his father. [5]
A spot propitious for such forgetfulness of the present and his daily surroundings, in favor of the past and a distant land, was ready. [10]
So one misfortune follows another; but the gentlemen pay no heed and find forgetfulness in drinking and gambling, carousing and hunting. [10]
Some ladies, with faces betraying complete forgetfulness of all the rules of decorum, pushed forward to the detriment of their toilets. [2]
Then, when the Egyptian is ruined, if you have done as I wish, the king will remember your sad pale face, your humility and forgetfulness of self. [10]
Then a melting away of familiar faces, of cities, and of tossing waves, into a great calm of forgetfulness and peace. [5]
But, as he accepted great gifts without ever allowing himself to be tempted to treason or forgetfulness of duty, so he did not reject little tokens of friendliness from Barbara, and of these she showed no lack. [10]

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