Which preposition to use with forgetting
For the moment the object of the undertaking was forgotten in the wonder of its exact accomplishment.
I had forgotten about it.
" In discussing their new find and attempting to solve its meaning, the three friends forgot for the time being the melancholy tidings they had received that morning, and gave themselves up to a full enjoyment of the mystery.
"I suppose," says he, "from the violence of these partisans, they are on different sides in religion or politics?" "Not at all," said the other; "those differences are forgotten at the present, and the ground of the dispute is, that one of the candidates is tall, and the other is shortone has a large foretop, and the other is bald.
We often grow silly and seek a smile In a thousand ways that are not worth while; Yet after the mirth and the jest are through, We shall all be judged by the deeds we do, And God shall forget on the Judgment Day
But hear ye, fair Mrs. Celinda, you have forgot to what end and purpose you came to Town; not to marry Mr. Bellmour, as I take itbut Sir Timothy Tawdrey, that Spark of Men.
Nor can we forget with what longing eyes the Corsican barbarian who wielded for mischief the forces of France in 1805 looked across from Boulogne at the shores of the one European land that never in word or deed granted him homage.
But there is nought in the world so easily forgot as gratitude; so, when the Prioress of Kirklees had heard how her cousin, the Earl of Huntingdon, had thrown away his earldom and gone back again to Sherwood, she was vexed to the soul, and feared lest her cousinship with him should bring the King's wrath upon her also.
Ah! would I be forgetting of The Thing that came with me?
Shifting our pains, we risk a sorrier case: All worlds, like ours, are sunk in agony: Go where we will, we feel; and this my cry I may forget like many an old disgrace.
The disappearance and the forgetting of the Church of St. Alexander were less remarkable, because of its far greater distance from the city, and its comparative inconspicuousness and poverty.
In a little shall the grass be green again, and she sleep here forgot by allsave God!
this city, a gentle restraint will, in a short time, divert the minds of the people to other entertainments, and the vice of drinking spirits will be forgotten among us.
between the meetings of all the other societies would actually get done the things they talk about and pass resolutions about and then go off and forget until the next meeting.
I'll bet he forgot from the bench to the plate.'
" "My dearest Sister,I entreat you not to forget before your journey, to perform your promise, that is, to make a certain visit.
The incident, therefore, was soon forgotten amid the dire stress of their surroundings.
Goethe appeared now solely as father of a family, helping to all the dishes, carving the roast fowls with great dexterity, and not forgetting between whiles to fill the glasses.
As vaguely, she remembered that in the moment of her terror she had clung to him, had forgotten under the great strain that he was a strangerand a man.
Nothing reveals in a more amazing light the extent to which in this country the true meaning of our being a nation has been forgotten than the use that has been made in recent years of the term "national education."
They'll forget after the holidays.
I have heard it said that animals forget past unhappiness, and perhaps some of them do.
Neither the cause nor the time of pleading it was satisfactory to Cornelius; and the nation was suspected by him, both on account of many treacherous actions, and though others might have been forgotten through length of time, on account of the recent perfidy of the Boii.
In Russia, Goremykin and Sazonoff are forgotten behind a line of successors, equally unstable.
And Tony was ready enough to forget beneath his worshiping green eyes and under the spell of his wonderful voice.