fail to recollect
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We too often fail to recollect the hours of wearying labour that have been devoted to the acquirement of those qualifications which, when seen in the results, are much admired.
From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by Drayson, A.W.
If you have got any memory at all, you can't fail to recollect it.
From East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
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
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 Hunt, Henry
