self-forgetting
Example Sentences
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For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014
Lady Pembroke said, 'in death, as in life, self-forgetting and Christ-like in your deeds.'
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma
Albano was pure, true, human, frank, and hearty toward all; there was no vanity in his self-forgetting pride.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
His whole-hearted, absolutely self-forgetting labor, and his reach after the highest standards in his art, from 1902 to 1919, made Mr. Hallam dear not only to his choir, but to all Chautauquans.
From The Story of Chautauqua by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman
A long, patient, laborious, self-forgetting life hers has been—has it not?
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
