REMEMBRANCE in a Sentence

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For REMEMBRANCE, below is one of 87 sentences:
From Willoughby their expression was at first held back, by the embarrassment which the remembrance of his assistance created.

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 Meanings and Examples of REMEMBRANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
remembrance
 n.  the ability to recall past occurrences; a recognition of meritorious service
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1  From my earliest remembrance I had been as I then was in height and proportion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
2  Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
3  The banks of the Thames presented a new scene; they were flat but fertile, and almost every town was marked by the remembrance of some story.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  As we entered this city our minds were filled with the remembrance of the events that had been transacted there more than a century and a half before.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  I found them growing on a grave, which bore no tombstone, no other memorial of the dead man, save these ugly weeds, that have taken upon themselves to keep him in remembrance.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
7  There were trifles too, little ornaments, beautiful tokens of a continual remembrance, that must have been wrought by delicate fingers at the impulse of a fond heart.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
8  From Willoughby their expression was at first held back, by the embarrassment which the remembrance of his assistance created.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
9  She resigned herself at first to all the misery of her situation; and happy had it been if she had not lived to overcome those regrets which the remembrance of me occasioned.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
10  His remembrance can be overcome by no change of circumstances or opinions.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46
11  Mr. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but not warmly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
12  And whatever opinion you take away of me, shall make no difference in my remembrance of you.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
13  If the green and yellow growth of weed in the chinks of the old wall had been the most precious flowers that ever blew, it could not have been more cherished in my remembrance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
14  There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIX
15  I can make no claim therefore to have known, at that time, how matters stood; or to have any remembrance, founded on the evidence of my own senses, of what follows.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
Example Sentence:
1  The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
2  The remembrance of past sorrow is joyful.
3  A service was held in remembrance of local soldiers killed in the war.