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  • And while fans of Gibson and Tiffany may be up in arms over the fates that awaited their faves, we're already crossing our fingers that SyFy will be able to yank Martika and that guy from Kajagoogoo out of oblivion's cold storage unit for the sequel.

    Watercooler: The Glory of Mega Python Vs Gatoroid 2011

  • Though the idol seems to be at home in God's laughter lately, which is a lonely, single laughter that has withered a little, a tiny, dear laugh out of the side of the mouth — still, fatten the raven away to the zero, zero, dear God, and send him out oblivion's other side.

    inside sugar Jerry Ratch 2011

  • In me all human knowledge dwells, the oracle of oracles, past, present, future I reveal or in oblivion's silence seal; What I can preserve can perish never, what I forgo is lost forever.

    Canada—A Community of Communities 1989

  • It must be by being in possession of that classical knowledge which promotes genius, and causes man to soar up to those high intellectual enjoyments and acquirements, which place him in a situation to shed upon a country and a people that scientific grandeur which is imperishable by time, and drowns in oblivion's cup their moral degradation.

    History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

  • The volume being by no means yet relegated to oblivion's dusty shelves I am naturally reluctant to refer to it with such particularity as might enable my argus-eyed reader to identify it and my own unworthy share therein, and therefore in the following dialogue, typical of many between the author and myself, I disguise her name under an initial.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920 Various

  • That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut through oblivion's sea;

    Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Various

  • Yes, with all thy loveliness, the circle of mirth and gaiety, reflecting happy faces of thy present worshippers, tame is the scene compared with the traditions of a by-gone race, which, notwithstanding the simplicity in forms of customs that governed them, were among the brightest pictures of American life -- always associated with the beautiful forest, which together are passing away, and oblivion's veil fast gathering around them.

    Birch Bark Legends of Niagara Owahyah

  • -- L'art robust seul a l'éternité_, precisely as Gautier points out, with bracing common-sense; and it is excellent thus to comprehend that to-day, as always, only through exercise of the auctorial virtues of distinction and clarity, of beauty and symmetry, of tenderness and truth and urbanity, may a man in reason attempt to insure his books against oblivion's voracity.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • -- L'art robust seul a l'eternite, precisely as Gautier points out, with bracing common-sense; and it is excellent thus to comprehend that to-day, as always, only through exercise of the auctorial virtues of distinction and clarity, of beauty and symmetry, of tenderness and truth and urbanity, may a man in reason attempt to insure his books against oblivion's voracity.

    The Certain Hour 1909

  • And between yesterday and to-day oblivion's veil hath fallen.

    Stories of the Wagner Opera 1894

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