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consign to oblivion



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Not their luggage, you understand, but of all the bits of their backstory that they’d like to consign to oblivion.

From The Guardian Jan. 20, 2017

We will say no more about it," replied Miss Maitland; "it is an unpleasant episode, which we shall be only too glad to consign to oblivion.

From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil

It is true some injudicious Bavarian modifications were made; but time will soon consign to oblivion these delusions of Teutonic intellect.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various

He must consign to oblivion the body and soul, the life, comfort and existence.

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Often in his wretchedness would he groan aloud, and wish for unconsciousness to come to his aid and consign to oblivion his accusing memory.

From Probable Sons by Amy Le Feuvre




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