fail to recollect
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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
I fail to recollect whether it was Choppy or Ashley with whom I landed at Goa Medical College where the injured were brought.
From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various
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
Dr. Blake, Mr. Buncomb, and Mr. Dummet, will not fail to recollect it, and that they promised to attend the county meeting and support an address for Reform.
From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt
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 Sir Edgar R. (Edgar Rees) Jones
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