Use memory in a sentence
Sentences starting with memory
- Memory of her was only poignant, in so far as it was associated with the days preceding the wreck of the Antoine. [11]
- Memory is all very fine; but you'd want a life set apart for remembering the others after awhile. [11]
- Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. [4]
- Memory followed memory, plan was added to plan. [10]
- Memory reproduced the picture of the mother standing just where the daughter now stood, Carmen quiet and well in hand, and himself all shaken with weakness, and with all power gone out of him-- even the power which rage and a murderous soul give. [11]
- Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. [6]
- Memory might still live on without a wound or a cowl of shame. [11]
- Memory revived in his mind. [10]
- Memory should aid him to gain his purpose. [10]
- Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. [11]
Sentences ending with memory
- I will tell you what that thing was that come back into my memory. [5]
- She could and would show this, for, like an illumination, words which she had heard the day before in the Golden Cross had flashed into her memory. [10]
- Fine old man, with no memory. [9]
- I am cursed with memory. [9]
- Even a stone with a whitish band crossing it, belonging to the pavement of the back-yard, insisted on becoming one of the talismans of memory. [6]
- A few items will refresh the reader's memory. [5]
- Asking that you will join me, I give you his memory. [5]
- I haven't got what you'd call an intellectual memory. [11]
- And when they were all gone and forgotten, the name of Hopkins would be still fresh in the world's memory. [6]
- Here at last was something to touch a fibre of my brain, but a pain came with the effort of memory. [9]
Short sentences using memory
- The devil fetch my memory! [9]
- That faculty is memory. [5]
- The memory of it lingered. [9]
- It was a gracious memory. [11]
- You haven't a good memory. [11]
- Memory shook itself free. [11]
- And memory, too. [5]
- Memory fails. [9]
Sentences containing memory two or more times
- Confused with her shame was the memory of a delirious joy, yet no sooner would she give herself up, trembling, to this memory when in turn it was penetrated by qualms of resentment, defiling its purity. [9]
- The racking and pitiless pain of it remains stored up in my memory alongside the memory of the time that I had my teeth fixed. [5]
- Memory, memory, memory--yet never a word, and never a hearsay of what had happened at the Manor Cartier since she had left it! [11]
- He had gone forth to slay, and had been foiled by shadows; he had come with a tragic, if beautiful, memory haunting him, and that memory had clothed itself in flesh and stood before him, pitiful, solitary,--a woman. [11]
- And many will admire to see what a good memory you are furnished with, when perhaps your memory is not any better than mine. [5]
More example sentences with the word memory in them
- Then recall to your memory again what this night of the full moon means--you are well aware of it--to me. [10]
- The honeysuckle in your garden needs a support, that it may grow and put forth flowers; let these poor songs be the espalier around which your memory of the absent one can twine its tendrils and cling lovingly. [10]
- The memory of your dear father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad, sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before. [7]
- Do you think your charitable act is more acceptable than the Good Samaritan's, because you do it in the name of Him who made the memory of that kind man immortal? [6]
- Be thankful that you have once known them, and remember that even the learned ignorance of a nomenclature is something to have mastered, and may furnish pegs to hang facts upon which would otherwise have strewed the floor of memory in loose disorder. [3]
- By the time you have drawn twenty-one wales and written "William I.--1066-1087--twenty-one years" twenty-one times, those details will be your property; you cannot dislodge them from your memory with anything but dynamite. [5]
- It was told you by some old beau who lives upon the memory of the past. [9]
- And as the years went on we'd realise how every form of success was offset by something undone in another direction, something which would have given us joy and memory and content--so it seems. [11]
- But at seventy years old I find that memory of peculiar value to me. [5]
- Love continued to yearn for him even after she had sundered the bond; but he often yielded to the longing for his higher home, of whose splendours he retained a memory, and soared upward. [10]
- But they also wove into my life something else which lends their memory a melancholy charm. [10]
- Still another set would take it to build a monument to the memory of those heroes. [6]
- Being vigilant, one would have seen, however, that he lived in some land of memory or anticipation, beyond his life of daily toil and usual dealing. [11]
- At times he would fain have me read to him as he lay in his great four-post bed with the flowered counterpane, from the Spectator, stopping me now and anon at some awakened memory of his youth. [9]
- To her he would be a softening memory as time went on. [11]
- He saw the work that he had done in the carpentering shed, and had no memory of it. [11]
- And the last words I ever heard him say was to reproach--" But this memory was too much for the old lady, and she broke entirely down. [5]
- Outside the house Wolf returned to her memory a moment. [10]
- A half-mad woman, without memory, knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son. [11]
- But when alone with him he conversed in the old way, and his faults of memory seemed at times to disappear. [6]
- The colored divisions will smartly show to the eye the difference in the length of the reigns and impress the proportions on the memory and the understanding. [5]
- The Endowment Fund will be the most fitting of all the memorials the country will dedicate to the memory of Lincoln, serving, as it will, to uplift his very own people. [5]
- An effete celebrity, who would never be heard of again in the great places until the funeral sermon waked up his memory for one parting spasm, finds himself in full flavor of renown a little farther back from the changing winds of the sea-coast. [6]
- His beloved dead, who in the tumult of carnival mirth had vanished from his memory, again rose before his mind, among them the doctor, who gazed rebukingly at him with his clear, thoughtful eyes. [10]
- Like the astronomer who fixes his gaze and tries to imprint upon his memory some rare star in the firmament which a cloud is threatening to obscure, he now strove to obtain Ledscha's image. [10]
- There are stories which show that Emerson had a retentive memory in the earlier part of his life. [6]
- He said, "That which I have seen, in that one little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. [5]
- In memory of which event, we exchanged boxes, like two Homeric heroes. [6]
- They would cross where the twelve stones were placed in memory of that great event. [5]
- I wondered of what class this memory would be. [11]
- Behind that door were two people who despised his memory, who conspired to forget his very name. [11]
- When Michael Ivanovich went in there were tears in the prince's eyes evoked by the memory of the time when the paper he was now reading had been written. [2]
- The highest energy we know, the soul of man, the unit in which meet intelligence, imagination, memory, hope, love, purpose, insight,--this agent of immense resource and boundless power,--this has not been subdued by its instrument. [6]
- But how can we feel sure that an old dog with an excellent memory and some power of imagination, as shewn by his dreams, never reflects on his past pleasures or pains in the chase? [1]
- Perhaps, like the wayfarer, my fears were the sharper for the memory of the beauty of the morning on that same mountain, when, filled with vigour, I had gazed on it from the plain below and beheld the sun breaking through the mists.... [9]
- No doubt it was well packed away in his memory, no doubt it was fresh and usable, until I had been heard from. [5]
- That poor town was not to blame, of course; yet we flushed hot with that old memory, and hoped there would be a misunderstanding here, for we dearly wanted to storm the place and burn it. [5]
- I saw he was looking at the dim photograph of memory, and turned from him to Iris. [6]
- That her mind was influenced by memory of Iberville we may guess, but in what fashion who can say? [11]
- Verily, this man was gifted with "gorgis abilities," and it is a happiness to me to embalm the memory of their luster in these columns. [5]
- Next morning he was found hanging dead on one side of the fence and the sheep on the other; in memory whereof the lord of the manor caused this monument to be erected as a warning to all who love mutton better than virtue. [6]
- A lost memory was feeling blindly its way home again. [11]
- This night he was crowding into the music four years of events: of memory, hope, pride, patience, and affection. [11]
- However, his memory was born in him, I think, not built. [5]
- Among the latter was an excursion to Cassel which was associated with an adventure whose singular course impressed it firmly on my memory. [10]
- And my voice was all but gone, for the sight of him revived the memory of every separate debt of the legion I owed him. [9]
- One thing only was a pang to his vanity: No succeeding generations would preserve the memory of his heroic struggle and death for the cause of the gods. [10]
- The young man's vivid imagination and excellent memory recapitulated every word the prelate had uttered. [10]
- It was only visible things, or sounds, that appeared to open the doors of memory of the most recent happenings. [11]
- Both had fallen victims on the same day to the plague, the only pestilence that had visited this bright coast within the memory of man. [10]
- They might be very thankful to get her back, and leave her to tell the rest of her story when she had got her strength and memory, for she was not quite herself yet, and might not be for some days. [6]
- Daphne seemed the very incarnation of desirable, artless, heart-refreshing womanliness, but his memory could not dwell with her long; anxiety concerning Chello's report only too quickly interrupted it, as soon as he yielded to its charm. [10]
- Harry was a very entertaining fellow, having his imagination to help his memory, and telling his stories as if he believed them--as perhaps he did. [5]
- It is a very bad thing for the memory and the judgment to get into a habit of reading carelessly or listening with distracted attention. [4]
- I have a very bad memory, but I hope you will not mind that. [5]
- The words had vanished from her memory when she awoke, but she knew that their purport had been sorrowful and of ill omen. [10]
- There came again, utterly to blot this out, the memory of her lips. [9]
- We look back upon it with softened memory, and already see it again in the light of history. [4]
- She might look upon it again--many times, perhaps--but a conviction was strong in her that its daily possession would now be only a memory. [9]
- To give herself up to memory, to pray, to dream, to picture herself in the other world among her beloved dead--and besides that to eat and drink, which she was always ready to do very freely--this was all she asked henceforth of life on earth. [10]
- And now surged up a dryad-like memory which had troubled him many a wakeful night, of startled, appealing eyes that sought his in vain, and of the son she had left him flinging himself into his arms in the face of chastisement. [9]
- Two brothers of unusual height, who, nude like all their comrades in death, offered their broad, beautifully arched chests to the arrows, would not leave his memory. [10]
- The scientist has unlimited resources; all he has to do is to be vague, and look prodigious; but the parson must have his poetry as a monopoly, or he is lost to sight, and memory. [11]
- His intellect was unimpaired, and his memory tenacious, up to within a few minutes of his decease. [5]
- Many glances were undoubtedly directed at her, the daughter of the dead woman in whose memory so many citizens had gathered; many, perhaps, had come solely to see the beautiful Es. [10]
- The Cure came two or three times, and Charley spoke to him but never held conversation, and no word concerning the past ever passed his tongue, nor did he have memory of what was said to him from one day to the next. [11]
- There were, besides, two maples and two apricot trees, relics of the farm, and of blessed memory. [9]
- She had been two different persons in her life, and the first was only a memory to the second. [11]
- Even though posterity twines no wreaths for actors, it is done in the grateful memory of survivors. [10]
- He had died twenty years after the time when Luke Claridge, against the then custom of the Quakers, set up a tombstone to Mercy Claridge's memory behind the Meeting-house. [11]
- And the vellum-bound Tulpius, which I came upon in Venice, afterwards my only reading when imprisoned in quarantine at Marseilles, so that the two hundred and twenty-eight cases he has recorded are, many of them, to this day still fresh in my memory. [3]
- She was also trying to verify something in her memory. [11]
- I'm going to try to mail it back to you to-day--I mean I am going to charge my memory. [5]
- He could be trusted to go and say, 'My lord, the carriage waits,' but if they ventured to add a sentence or two to this, his memory felt the strain and he was likely to miss fire. [5]
- Nothing worth the trouble of stowing away in your memory. [5]
- They spoke of trivial things that found no place in Austen's memory, and at times, upon one pretext or another, he fell behind a little that he might feast his eyes upon her. [9]
- By an ironic trick of her memory, she recalled that she had told the clerks in the shops where she had made her purchases that she would send them her address later. [9]
- Not a lip trembled nor an eye faltered when a backwoodsman, his memory aflame at sight of the pitiful white scalps on their belts, thrust through the crowd to curse them. [9]
- My mind went travelling back, and presently lighted upon a picture--a picture which was still so new and fresh in my memory that it seemed a matter of only yesterday--and indeed its date was no further back than the first days of January. [5]
- It is a touching note of the hold the memory of her young hero had upon her admiration that her last words, murmured as life was ebbing, were, "Write to Nathan. [4]
- The words had touched upon a happy memory, I thought. [5]
- Clemens was deeply touched by the offering from those "western isles"--the memory of which was always so sweet to him. [5]
- At sight and touch of him the memory of what she had prepared to say vanished. [9]
- The Delphian then took part in the general conversation, but Aristomachus repeated the words of the Oracle unceasingly to himself in a low voice, endeavoring to impress them on his memory, and to interpret their obscure import. [10]
- The old man took off his hat--he had no memory for the words--but he said amen, and that they were very good. [12]
- I know you took it off, and know it by a better way than your wool-gethering memory, too, because it was on the clo's-line yesterday--I see it there myself. [5]
- I obey gladly too, for if I succeed in saving you, a new and beautiful star will adorn the heaven of my memory. [10]
- His uncle's words, too, came back to his memory. [10]
- I will agree to write the story of two worlds, this and the next, in such a compact way that you can commit them both to memory in less time than you can learn the answer to the first question in the Catechism. [6]
- He was liberal to Viking; and Phil's memory was drunk, not in silence, many times that day. [11]
- He has behaved to us as a father, and it behoves me to reverence his memory as though I had been his son. [10]
- There she strove to think of the dead man, and she succeeded, but with the memory of the sturdy old hero constantly blended the image of the feeble man who to-day was voluntarily surrendering all the gifts of fortune which she--oh, how willingly! [10]
- It was dedicated to the memory of the brave hipparch whom he had been permitted to call his father, and who had been burned beside the battlefield on which he had found a hero's death. [10]
- The day, dedicated to the memory of heroes fallen in the Civil War, the thirtieth of May, was a legal holiday. [9]
- I shall carry to the grave the memory of the next day. [9]
- And I've come to the conclusion, curious though it is, that I can use every one of these freaks of memory to teach you all a lesson. [5]
- Are you disposed to submit patiently to the blow struck at you and at your parent's worthy memory by this restless old man, who hates you as he did your father before you? [10]
- Thou dost desire to see Kaid--in truth, thou hast memory, beloved. [11]
- The wits used to say that Ropers,--the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts,--was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet. [6]
- H'm--I--my memory faileth to recall the name. [5]
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