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Not with the memory of her folks and the lost Conestoga still holding her close.
He then said something which struck a chord in my memory.
One tiny detail in a happening can clog the memory and stick like meat in a crooked tooth, while the rest of the occurrence will go hazy and uncertain.
The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.
Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.
Time is a queer thing and memory a queerer ; ;
the tricks that time plays with memory and memory with time are queerest of all.
And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.
but true memory does not count nor add: it holds fast to things that were and they are outside of time.
I have no picture in my mind of the garden as a whole -- that I could not see -- but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory: wind-blown, frost-bitten, white chrysanthemums beneath a window, with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November ; ;
We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.
Heidenstam wrote four other works of fiction about earlier figures revered in Swedish memory.
Would we gain by keeping alive his memory and besmirching today's Roman Catholics by saying he had a Catholic heart??
Let his bones and his memory rest in the fifteenth century where they belong ; ;
He would not have cared why it emerged, he only wanted to capture a memory to play with it again in his imagination and somehow to fix and hold in the story the disturbing emotions that accompanied the fantasy.
Amid a shortage of profitable work, the memory of Albert Johnson's $20,000 stood out in lonely grandeur -- the money had quickly melted away.
But I can see from this latest trick of memory how much more arbitrary and influential it is than the will.
While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.
Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.
After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.
He has a wonderfully retentive memory.
May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.
Six climactic minutes in an individual's life left no memory.
As I have said, words from Tennyson remain ever in my memory: `` That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before ''.

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