Forgetting

Examples

• Can you talk to me without feeling frightened, and without forgetting that I am a friend? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Emma was in no danger of forgetting. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I deserved the evil I have encountered, for forgetting his fate even in that of his son! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• And Mrs Crich moved away, forgetting him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But today she forgot, she was at her ease, entirely forgetting to have misgivings. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I am forgetting myself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But Gerald looked back as he rowed, beholding her, forgetting what he was doing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I shall have the pleasure of giving you a call to-morrow or next day--not forgetting Mr. Smallweed and his proposal of two fifty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I wish I could run off too, said Jo, forgetting her part of mentor in lively visions of martial life at the capital. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Emma's project of forgetting Mr. Elton for a while made her rather sorry to find, when they had all taken their places, that he was close to her. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Oh, my dear, we are forgetting, said Mrs. Sprague. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Why, Mother, Beth's eighteen, but we don't realize it, and treat her like a child, forgetting she's a woman. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He was on the move immediately; but coming back, said, I am forgetting that I am not acquainted with her. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I am very sorry for forgetting myself, she said artlessly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There is no danger of my forgetting them--my memory is only too ready to dwell on any words of Hartright's that refer to Anne Catherick. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And then he thought over every time he had ever seen her once again, by way of finally forgetting her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I still remained in the gloomy first classe, forgetting, or at least disregarding, rules I had never forgotten or disregarded before. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I beg your pardon; I am forgetting myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I speak to you in confidence; you will oblige me, I am sure, by not forgetting that? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I shook off Sergeant Cuff's arm, and, forgetting my manners, pushed by him through the door to make my own inquiries for myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There's no fear of my forgetting it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Do not imagine me in danger of forgetting it. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I could only be happy--by forgetting of her--and I'm afeerd I couldn't hardly bear as she should be told I done that. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She looked at him, somewhat surprised, forgetting perhaps that she was talking to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Lydgate started up from his chair and went towards the window, forgetting where he was. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We are forgetting business, ma'am,' said the beadle; 'here is your porochial stipend for the month. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Forgetting politeness in his sullen rage, Malone pushed into the parlour before Miss Keeldar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They continued to move south-eastward across Russia, using the rivers and never forgetting their Baltic watercraft. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Absent from me a whole month, and forgetting me quite, I'll be sworn! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As if I were not in danger of forgetting everything else. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Stu