fail to recollect

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Mather could not fail to recollect the affectionate manner in which she had received his previous gifts, and he therefore decided to try the same policy again.

From Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan

Looking at the moon, he will not fail to recollect that the very same silver disk hangs at the very same moment between the branches of the laurels in Italy.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

Besides these considerations, the Emperor cannot fail to recollect that he has been made an object of mistrust and suspicion in Europe on account of his supposed projects of aggrandizement on the Rhine.

From Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 by Jones, Edgar R. (Edgar Rees), Sir

It is impossible that the people can fail to recollect in a little while that the reticence of which they complain is under the circumstances inevitable.

From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)

And the whole quotation is serviceable for many purposes, and since you at the moment fail to recollect it, I myself will repeat it to you.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us