fix in the mind
Example Sentences
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This one came so rapidly and so dizzyingly that it was almost impossible to fix in the mind, so the timeline of wickets is worth preserving for accuracy as much as posterity: 5.44pm:
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2013
But still may they who sowed behind the plough True seed fix in the mind an unborn NOW To make the plagues afflicting us things past.
From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith
It is this alone which can fix in the mind a full persuasion of the nothingness of terrestrial pleasures and possessions.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox
Something is needed to fix in the mind the knowledge that has been lodged there, and no process is more effectual to this end than that of class recitation.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
