Sentence Examples

1. Again, because it is a general complaint that the favorites of princes are troubled with short and weak memories, the same doctor proposed that whoever attended a first minister, after having told his business with the utmost brevity and in the plainest words, should at his departure give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns, or lug him thrice by both ears, or run a pin into his breech, or pinch his arm black and blue, to prevent forgetfulness and at every levee day repeat the same operation, till the business were done or absolutely refused.
2. Though the arts of peace were unknown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated the wanton cry, of many a gallant and reckless youth, as he hurried by them, in the noontide of his spirits, to slumber in a long night of forgetfulness.
3. If there only was a wine, a poison which would numb his senses, bring him forgetfulness and sleep, and no awakening from that!
4. He had learned to eat tenderly and carefully prepared food, even fish, even meat and poultry, spices and sweets, and to drink wine, which causes sloth and forgetfulness.
5. My forgetfulness left me facing the distinct possibility of an early and creatively painful demise.
6. However, for the reasons I had offered, but chiefly to gratify the king of Luggnagg by an uncommon mark of his favor, he would comply with the singularity of my humor but the affair must be managed with dexterity, and his officers should be commanded to let me pass as it were by forgetfulness for he assured me that if the secret should be discovered by my countrymen, the Dutch, they would cut my throat on the voyage.
7. How long the tired Duncan lay in this insensible state he never knew himself, but his slumbering visions had been long lost in total forgetfulness, when he was awakened by a light tap on the shoulder.
8. An error I readily forgive, but wilful negligence or forgetfulness, never.
9. She smiled, as if in pity at her own momentary forgetfulness, discovering by the act a row of teeth that would have shamed the purest ivory when, replacing the veil, she bowed her face, and rode in silence, like one whose thoughts were abstracted from the scene around her.
10. Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it invests all things of the mind with forgetfulness, seemed to have respected these signs, which apparently had been made with some degree of regularity, and probably with a definite purpose.