Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...singing, under a Beacon Hill window, I have had the bad taste to sit down upon one of the benches to listen, and imagine myself in Italy hearing a lover serenade his lady. Once indeed, on a June morning, when the birds twittered and Nicholas sang so that I forgot my annual awaiting me, I followed him up and down, until, meeting a severely critical friend, I basely shielded myself by asserting that I was searching for an officer to arrest the nuisance. Nevertheless I doubted that day if Capoul ever sang better...
...Boston Journal of Monday copied from the Advocate the vote taken in the Senior class on Presidential preferences, in which Hayes had a majority, but forgot to insert the vote on Governor, in which Adams took the lead...
...them. We understand that the cause of the delay in the examination was that the instructor, who should have been on hand at nine o'clock, wearied himself exceedingly in pointing out, the evening before, the utter want of practicability in the instructor who, a few weeks ago, forgot the hour at which his examination began. So wearied grew our philosopher with his metaphysical argument, that he was really unable to appear the next morning until ten o'clock...
...Rosemi Shell" was then "hurled in the faces of the public regardless of all expense." The title-role was filled by a gentleman who took the part on the morning preceding the entertainment. His conception of the part was admirable, and he never so much as forgot a word of his lines through the entire performance...
...Politics, which I wrote a few weeks ago. The reply was written in a very excited vein. The writer, who was much displeased with my sentiments, neglected to refute my arguments, and contented himself with a somewhat rambling description, founded upon premises of his own. In his indignation he forgot the courtesy which it is customary to observe in such matters, and his attacks upon me were so violent that, although I have no wish to enter upon a prolonged discussion, I feel that I am justified in saying a few words in my defence. With my opponent's premises...