818 examples of oblivions in sentences

"Now," said G.F.F.F.S., "I prognosticated that my maternal relative would become oblivions of my reiterated solicitations to perambulate the Avenue, and make the acquisition of four yards of cerulean hued ribbon," and she stamped her tiny number eights on the floor.

He wanted to be undisturbed, to have time to think, and God granted his wish, until his reeling brain prayed for oblivion!

It's too good for oblivion.

Some ingenious tar, whose name deserves a better fate than the oblivion into which it has fallen, attained this object by "arming" the bottom of the lead with a lump of grease, to which more or less of the sand or mud, or broken shells, as the case might be, adhered, and was brought to the surface.

now are turnd to dust, And overgrowen with blacke oblivions rust.

Agents are these events, these ecstasies, And tribulations, to prove the purities Or poor oblivions that are our being.

(the Queen replied, and frowned): "Be all your acts in dark oblivion drowned; There sleep forgot, with mighty tyrants gone, Your statues mouldered, and your names unknown!"

To rescue from oblivion The memory of Henry Jenkins, A person obscure in birth, But of a life truly memorable, For He was enriched With the goods of nature

In rambling through the eastern provinces of Bavaria, some few springs ago, I chanced to arrive one glowing afternoon at the post-house of an inconsiderable town; which, from the grass-grown tranquillity of its streets, and from a peculiar air of self-oblivion, appeared to be basking fast asleep in the sunshine.

We have hinted that we are disposed to question the originality of these novels in point of invention, and that in doing so, we do not consider ourselves as derogating from the merit of the author, to whom, on the contrary, we give the praise due to one who has collected and brought out with accuracy and effect, incidents and manners which might otherwise have slept in oblivion.

After that I am willing to retire into oblivion.

It was my firm intention to lie awake all night and watch, but the exhaustion of nerves and body decreed otherwise, and sleep after a while came over me with a welcome blanket of oblivion.

The rest of would-be-sonneteers, tragedy-writers, and essayists, have long ago found, with their mediocrities, a congenial oblivion in "the tomb of all the Capulets.

Oh, let their crime in long oblivion sleep!

Nothing, I am convinced, can cure her save absolute oblivion of the past, and the beginning of a new lifea married life.

Self-oblivion is his only resource, indulgence in alcohol in various disguises his remedy, and death or superstition his only comfort and hope.

" Better still the following picture, in imitation of the Homeric or Miltonic manner: "The Sire then shook the honours of his head, And from his brows damps of oblivion shed Full on the filial dulnesslong he stood Repelling from his breast the raging God.

30 From dark oblivion Harvey's name shall save; While Ent keeps all the honour that he gave.

The fact of not only my own but my family's dependence on M'Swatsank into oblivion.

It may rescue a meritorious author from oblivion, and restore him to his true position on the roll of fame.

These humble, old-fashioned illustrations occur to me as I apply myself to the consideration of the question provoked by the lightning over-production of modern fiction and modern literature generally: the question of the flourishing longevity of the fiction of the past as compared with the swift oblivion which seems almost invariably to over-take the much-advertised "masterpieces" of the present.

She was in his arms, pressed close to his breast, the presence of her, intense, feminine, intoxicating him, bearing him as the fruit of the poppy to oblivion.

Together we shall sink into nothingness, or together begin a new life; and here below where we have suffered let us be buried in oblivion.

From its driving energy, its personal weight, its invincible oblivion to certain things, there sprang up in Redwood's mind the most grotesque and strange of images.

if the particular God who happened to be at the digging of us out of the happier pit of oblivion had only made me a man, I, at least, should neither have been a straitlaced Jackanapes nor yet a prating, callow-bearded wiseacre.

818 examples of  oblivions  in sentences