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  • To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.   (source)
    oblivion = the state of being completely forgotten
  • "I'd a little rather not be the polo player," said Tom pleasantly, "I'd rather look at all these famous people in — in oblivion."   (source)
    oblivion = a state of being unknown and unnoticed
  • But keeping this one which must have reached her out of a clear sky after an interval of four years, considering this one worthy to give to a stranger to keep or not to keep, even to read or not to read as the stranger saw fit, to make that scratch, that undying mark on the blank face of the oblivion to which we are all doomed,   (source)
    oblivion = non-existence
  • But the little, clay-bespattered Italians were still sleeping, the slatternly women across the aisle were in open-mouthed oblivion, and even the crumby, crying babies were for the nonce stilled.   (source)
    oblivion = a state of having lost all sense of what is going on -- as during sleep
  • He walked the fine line of scaring her into oblivion and soothing her enough to keep her calm.†   (source)
  • So I let the train rock me into oblivion.†   (source)
  • I wished he had let me live on in my oblivion.†   (source)
  • It is only when a clapper brings his hands together that the lie reveals itself, abandoning the clapper in that final instant so that he exits this world utterly alone, without so much as a lie to accompany him into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Any misstep, any misunderstood word might set Watanabe off, leaving him smashing teapots, upending tables, and pounding his guests into oblivion.†   (source)
  • The pile of stones is called, in their various languages, The Haunt of Flying Snakes, The Heap of Rubble, The Abode of Howling Mothers, The Door of Oblivion, and The Pit of Gnawed Bones.†   (source)
  • When Glen was eight years old, the state had come through and repaved Main Street and put up street lights, the first significant improvement that Mellen had seen, on its long glide toward oblivion after its lumbering heyday, since Truman was in office.†   (source)
  • For as sunrise leads to sunset and dust to dust, as every river returns to the sea, just so a man must return to the embrace of oblivion, from whence— "Your Excellency!"†   (source)
  • But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.†   (source)
  • An amusement park in California introduced the first tubular steel tracks-they twisted at severe angles unachievable with wood-and suddenly, roller coasters, which had faded to near oblivion, were back in fashion.†   (source)
  • But, as in her dream, the pictures evaporated into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Tired, hungry, and desperate to pee, but not falling into oblivion.†   (source)
  • When she has finished the dishes, she leads Frederick out onto the elevated patio, as is their routine, where he sits with his bib still around his neck, staring into oblivion.†   (source)
  • The ache inside Thomas was deep and gnawing, and he tried to sink further into oblivion.†   (source)
  • 'If you shout his name I will curse you into oblivion,' muttered Tonks menacingly, now shunting Ginny and Hermione forwards.†   (source)
  • It hesitated for a moment, wobbling there on the edge of oblivion, and then pitched decisively forward and fell, tumbling end over end in beautiful balletic slow-motion.†   (source)
  • I face an incoming tide of forgetting, and then oblivion.†   (source)
  • But Claire had seen what I had—his look bearing down—his wanting something unspoken that to give him would equal our oblivion.†   (source)
  • Seven years of oblivion lifted off her and flew into the shadows on weighty, quaking wings.†   (source)
  • My whole life I'd been led to believe that Gregory Illea was a hero, the person who saved our country when we were on the edge of oblivion.†   (source)
  • Famished but with no prospect of food, in a cramped room filled with strangers, mercifully, I quickly sank into the oblivion of sleep.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to waste what I had on a few hours of oblivion only to wake up again in my cage (or, worse: in a Dutch hospital with no passport).†   (source)
  • His mother's phone number, jotted down with a felt-tip pen, blurred into oblivion.†   (source)
  • For a second I feel relieved: My body is prickling, like I've been stuck with needles all over my skin, and all I want to do is lie back against the softness of my pillows and sink into the darkness and oblivion of sleep, wait for the sharp pain in my head to dissipate.†   (source)
  • I was the girl who battled oblivion and won.†   (source)
  • I stared at the flaming drop to oblivion and the Lake of Fire below.†   (source)
  • And Redd herself made sure that no warning dispatch made it to the palace, rerouting it to oblivion by the power of her imagination.†   (source)
  • A Deserted Village In books I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come ...All things decay and pass with time ...all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them.†   (source)
  • I caught myself wondering whether I would be sold to some passing trader this time ...or next time ...I longed for my sleeping pills to give me oblivion, but some small part of me was glad I didn't have them.†   (source)
  • It's just that his brand of happy naivet6 can do nothing to arrest that slide into oblivion which the Church seems destined for.†   (source)
  • For those who could afford it—or whose insurance covered it, as ours did—the hospital provided epidurals, which delivered pain-blocking oblivion directly into the central nervous system.†   (source)
  • But just as Lyra's love had drawn him back from past the final door before, so this time Lanre's power forced him to return from sweet oblivion.†   (source)
  • She was leaning on the wall beneath the train trestle, head bowed, one hand squeezing her eyes, as if the tears that flowed out of them could be squeezed into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Three other deaths followed in short order: Jansen, fractured skull, Electricity Building; Allard, fractured skull, Electricity Building; Algeer, stunned to oblivion by a new phenomenon, electric shock, at the Mines Building.†   (source)
  • Yet my presence was known throughout the region: I was a gaudy flag waving overhead during all those months of sickness and oblivion, just a girl in love, the center of my own universe.†   (source)
  • Instead of going into the bar, where dark shadows sat sampling the tasty waters of oblivion, he had gone to Al Shockley's house.†   (source)
  • She opened it and took out a little note: What matters our creative endless toil, When at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?†   (source)
  • Numbness carne over my limbs, and then the paralysis of oblivion.†   (source)
  • I leave the wine and the little bottles of gin, even though they would help me sleep, even though they would let me slide, warm and loose, into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Clara decided that if craziness can repeat itself in a family, then there must be a genetic memory that prevents it from being swallowed by oblivion.†   (source)
  • I'd pinpointed that hollow where we both had rested and waited for death while the unseen Taliban rained fire down on us from behind the rocks and finally blew us both across the open ground to oblivion.†   (source)
  • I close my eyes and give in to oblivion once again.†   (source)
  • Other great actresses from the nineteenth-century American theater have faded into oblivion while Laura Keene is remembered for a single unscripted act that took place over a few minutes in the box at Ford's on April 14, 1865.†   (source)
  • They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Everything in Martin's basement will be vacuumed into oblivion.†   (source)
  • He stood and raised his hammer in preparation to charge, but as he stepped forward, his head throbbed in unison with his wounded shoulder, the ground vanished in a burst of light, and he toppled into oblivion.†   (source)
  • With the tines of her fork, Molly mashes the hamburger into her plate, hoping to grind it into oblivion.†   (source)
  • I felt myself growing really numb and then it got really hard to stay focused, and finally I just sort of slid off into oblivion.†   (source)
  • To get on them would require taking a step over the oblivion of the deep hole beneath us.†   (source)
  • A few beds over, one of the girls had finally dropped off into the oblivion of sleep, and her snores were helping to cover our conversation.†   (source)
  • Drugged themselves to oblivion.†   (source)
  • I fell at once into marine oblivion, a deep-dwelling crablike consciousness, silent and dreamless.†   (source)
  • She turned herself loose to the liquid rhythm of their coupling and found beyond its sorrow some brief oblivion.†   (source)
  • Its inhabitants no longer felt mysteriously protected; they knew that Dresden had recently been fire-bombed into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Whatever else had been, or might have been, locked in Rufus' heart or in the heart of his father, had gone into oblivion with Rufus.†   (source)
  • Not seeing these, she did not crash into the oblivion of either bitterness or futility but remained airborne.†   (source)
  • It would be wonderful to find oblivion in Heath's arms ....in the scarlet seduction of Heath's blood ....No, I typed hastily, my hands shaking.†   (source)
  • The choir clapped and stomped each syllable into a devastating reality, and just as it did, the congregation reached up, grabbed the phrase, and tried to clap and stomp it back into oblivion.†   (source)
  • They deserve shame before they get oblivion.†   (source)
  • Only in drink was there some break, some floodlight, and when that closed, there was oblivion.†   (source)
  • I rested my head on her stone shoulder, and drifted into a more peaceful oblivion than I had any hope of.†   (source)
  • They all sounded the same when they cried out, emerging from the drugged sleep, stunned, reeling out of oblivion into the reality of the bus.†   (source)
  • This gentle, painless easing of his human body into oblivion would be the final gift.†   (source)
  • There was an ungodly collision of brass, reed, and percussion—trombones and piccolos skidded into cacophony, a tuba farted, and the hollow clang of a cymbal wavered out of the big top, over our heads and into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.†   (source)
  • I had groggily surrendered myself to oblivion when the car stopped.†   (source)
  • He felt himself falling, falling ecstatically in love with her as she kissed him again and again with lips that were steaming and wet and soft and hard, mumbling deep sounds to him adoringly in an incoherent oblivion of rapture, one caressing hand on his back slipping deftly down inside his trouser belt while the other groped secretly and treacherously about on the floor for the bread knife and found it.†   (source)
  • For three good years, from the time I was ten until I turned thirteen, I lived in a beautiful oblivion, safe from the past, unaware of what waited for us when our childhoods ran out.†   (source)
  • And Buddhist enlightenment is very much like the Gnostic idea that we live in a land of oblivion, but can waken spiritually right here while we're still part of this world.†   (source)
  • These things were lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone ever taking the time to write it all down.†   (source)
  • He could sedate me, too, and send me off to oblivion.†   (source)
  • But why should we worry ourselves that Proust and Hume and Aristotle and Archimedes are all fading into oblivion?†   (source)
  • But now, when I looked in dismay at Allie, who was champing at the bit to get back to her oblivion; when I thought about whether Pennsatucky would be able to keep it together and prove herself the good mom that she aspired to be; when I worried about my many friends at Danbury whose health was crushed by hepatitis and HIV; and when I saw in the visiting room how addiction had torn apart the bonds between mothers and their children, I finally understood the true consequences of my own actions.†   (source)
  • He kept pursuing oblivion through drink, he kept abusing Mama, and there seemed to be no way out of it for anyone.†   (source)
  • As I listened to her plans, so selfless and suffused with hope, I felt the wretchedness of my own selfish scheme for escape into a false oblivion.†   (source)
  • Oblivion was what she wanted, what she prayed for.†   (source)
  • The river still rushed on, the trees behind him still glowed in oblivion, and the blackness ahead remained pitch dark.†   (source)
  • It had been blown into oblivion, into nonexistence.†   (source)
  • And I figured if that Al Qaeda bunch was behind it we were going to start bombing what was left of Afghanistan into oblivion any minute.†   (source)
  • The engine which has carried us halfway across a continent drones on and on in its continuing oblivion to everything but its own internal forces.†   (source)
  • Other than the uncontrollable fear of dying and oblivion, would there be anything else?†   (source)
  • Sailing on an overcrowded ship tossed by wind and sea, eating hardbread crawling with weevils and drinking black tar rum to sweet oblivion, sleeping on piles of moldy straw with the stench of strangers in his nostrils ...all that he had expected when he made his mark on that scrap of parchment in Volantis, pledging the Tattered Prince his sword and service for a year.†   (source)
  • Back to the cave, or on to oblivion.†   (source)
  • Felicia feels herself getting younger in her sleep, so young in fact that she fears she will die, be driven beyond the womb to oblivion.†   (source)
  • In imagination of yet another of her lovers, he knew oblivion.†   (source)
  • They had come to the desolation that lay before Mordor: the lasting monument to the dark labour of its slaves that should endure when all their purposes were made void; a land defiled, diseased beyond all healing — unless the Great Sea should enter in and wash it with oblivion.†   (source)
  • Except for what these two books told, the past, further back than three recorded centuries, was a long oblivion.†   (source)
  • Though the mining under the fields of the region was good, the dwarves seemed destined to fade away into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Yet this captain, in whatever altered state he occupied, watched oblivion approach with no apparent concern, even with delight, as though he recognized no physical threat to himself.†   (source)
  • She is gone, disappeared into some otherworldly oblivion of pain.†   (source)
  • I went to the can and you could've ignited yourself into oblivion.†   (source)
  • And though the implication is that I am the sort who is always careful and preparing, I think that's not right, either; in fact I feel I have not really been living anywhere or anytime, not for the future and not in the past and not at all of-the-moment, but rather in the lonely dream of an oblivion, the nothing-of-nothing drift from one pulse beat to the next, which is really the most bloodless marking-out, automatic and involuntary.†   (source)
  • As I left his office, he shook my hand and said gravely, "Now you go into oblivion."†   (source)
  • But it was my father, last surviving son of my grandmother's six children, who rescued the trove from its musty oblivion amid the termites and the spiders and the mice.†   (source)
  • Those who had not destroyed themselves had sought oblivion in ever more feverish activities, in fierce and suicidal sports that were often indistinguishable from minor wars.†   (source)
  • Then her soul is overcome
    By sleep and oblivion.†   (source)
  • On a whim, he had once traveled to Florida with a group of friends, bought the boat which Humphrey Bogart captained in the film The African Queen, and brought it back to Yamacraw Island, where it survived a year then rotted slowly into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Let him sit beside these other three and drink oblivion till you return.†   (source)
  • Powerhouse is so monstrous he sends everybody into oblivion.†   (source)
  • ...and so it may not have occurred to Ellen either to tell her sister, that to another the uncertainty of battle and the certainty of oblivion might be two things.   (source)
    oblivion = non-existence
  • She may have known for some time; even Ellen may have known, only probably to Ellen at that time absence was not a qualitative state, absence into ignominy or into oblivion being identical,   (source)
  • Apparently Ellen had now served her purpose, completed the bright pointless noon and afternoon of the butterfly's summer and vanished, perhaps not out of Jefferson, but out of her sister's life anyway, to be seen but the one time more dying in bed in a darkened room in the house on which fateful mischance had already laid its hand to the extent of scattering the black foundation on which it had been erected and removing its two male mainstays, husband and son—the one into the risk and danger of battle, the other apparently into oblivion.   (source)
  • Tom appeared from his oblivion as we were sitting down to supper together.   (source)
    oblivion = a state of being unknown and unnoticed
  • Once removed from CERN, the canister was on a one-way, twenty-four-hour trip to oblivion.†   (source)
  • There is only the future now He sinks into a dark oblivion.†   (source)
  • In a blizzard, you can get lost in a matter of yards and wander off course into oblivion.†   (source)
  • He should have brought a mickey or even a whole bottle, for the oblivion that's in it.†   (source)
  • He became lost in misty byways, in times reserved for oblivion, in labyrinths of disappointment.†   (source)
  • I have only the hope of oblivion after everything is gone and the Aleu fall nameless from the sky.†   (source)
  • Come aboard if your destination is oblivion—it should be our next stop.†   (source)
  • The cable stretched upward into oblivion.†   (source)
  • "Oblivion," her family shouts, describing her power.†   (source)
  • Ignoring the warnings of their wives, both men drank themselves into oblivion.†   (source)
  • I surrender to the soft, musty fur and oblivion.†   (source)
  • For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time—so too has love.†   (source)
  • Life and death and oblivion always at my fingertips.†   (source)
  • Dismayed by the cruelty of oblivion, he said: "He does not remember me anymore."†   (source)
  • What matters creative endless toil,When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?†   (source)
  • My parents' abilities mixed—my father was an oblivion and my mother a storm.†   (source)
  • If those leaving them had wanted oblivion, there was always fire.†   (source)
  • She had said goodbye to her mother and imagined her lonely wait for a train back home to oblivion.†   (source)
  • She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion.†   (source)
  • The Titanos family were oblivions, she says, her voice all around.†   (source)
  • The one who brought us back from oblivion!†   (source)
  • If you take the statue, you'll disappear with it forever, right into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Why do you think I evaporated him into oblivion?†   (source)
  • Disobey and you shall be cast into Oblivion.†   (source)
  • He had tossed and turned all day, prowling the bed like an animal seeking sleep, oblivion.†   (source)
  • He allowed the werelight to fade into oblivion.†   (source)
  • This time he moved, but only barely before settling back into oblivion.†   (source)
  • By the time Mom has dinner ready, Daddy has reached a state of oblivion.†   (source)
  • I wanted to cry, to fall off the horse and lie in oblivion.†   (source)
  • As the final refrain faded into oblivion, Eragon raised his hands and said, "Welcome, one and all.†   (source)
  • The enemy's center line had been charred to oblivion.†   (source)
  • Whoosh, whoosh, like windows into gray oblivion.†   (source)
  • Any moment the sea might dissolve and we'd fall into oblivion.†   (source)
  • I've spent the last hundred years believing that our kind was doomed to oblivion, said Glaedr.†   (source)
  • And yet this loss of self was not selfish oblivion.†   (source)
  • The god slapped his belly and uttered a booming chuckle and then faded into oblivion.†   (source)
  • If she'd told me to jump off the World Tree into oblivion, I would've done it in a second.†   (source)
  • She's so weighted into oblivion, she looks as if she did die.†   (source)
  • The narrow hallway beyond was devoid of lanterns and soon faded into the soft oblivion of shadow.†   (source)
  • Arya snapped her fingers, and the wash of light faded into oblivion.†   (source)
  • And then the doctor's words as I left his office yesterday: Now you go into oblivion.†   (source)
  • That had been the milder form: the single man at the window, drinking himself into oblivion to the mournful strains of the tango.†   (source)
  • The last moment before seeing a shell hit the ground, feeling the wing blown from my plane and the dizzying nosedive into oblivion, the warehouse roof falling down at me while I'm pinned helplessly to my cot.†   (source)
  • Ice coated the floor, which sloped downward at such a perilous angle I was afraid Otis and Marvin would slip and drag us to oblivion.†   (source)
  • I had gone from being proud to say my age—because of all I had done so young—to not bringing it up, for fear I was getting too close to forty and, therefore, professional oblivion.†   (source)
  • The whole structure seemed to occupy its own space, one of solitude and oblivion, protected from the vices of time and the habits of the birds.†   (source)
  • "There's the silver lining I've been looking for," she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was blissful oblivion better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand at her back and one in her long, sweet-smelling hair— The door banged open behind them and they jumped apart.†   (source)
  • We untangled ourselves and sprinted across the sky bridge as more stones disintegrated and fell into oblivion.†   (source)
  • ...The usual enchantments..."Time to leave, Harry," said Dumbledore quietly, and as the in tie elf bobbed away bearing the boxes, Dumbledore grasped Harry once again above the elbow and together they rose up through oblivion and back to Dumbledore's office.†   (source)
  • At last, as he had begun to think she had just sailed off into oblivion forever with no fuss or fanfare, she lowered the trap and went on as if she had never stopped speaking.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if we can keep even a piece of Sharp over the next two years, we'll be in line for some of the Department of Tourism budget, maybe even a crack at the state lottery if they don't mismanage it into oblivion by then.†   (source)
  • I couldn't remember what they were, but I had dispelled them many times, swatting them into oblivion with no more effort than I would a swarm of gnats.†   (source)
  • "Come now, petite cachotiere," says the man, "don't look so frightened," and she can hear him reaching for her; she smells rot on his breath, hears oblivion in his voice, and something—a fingertip?†   (source)
  • I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, to let my lovers live and to unite them at the end.†   (source)
  • She lay still, the tears staining her cheeks, as if all this that had risen to the surface had left her weak and desperate for oblivion, as if the room around her, as if I, were not there.†   (source)
  • And the temporary oblivion of sex.†   (source)
  • A hundred dementors were advancing, gliding toward them, sucking their way closer to Harry's despair, which was like a promise of a feast...He saw Ron's silver terrier burst into the air, flicker feebly, and expire; he saw Hermione's otter twist in midair and fade, and his own wand trembled in his hand, and he almost welcomed the oncoming oblivion, the promise of nothing, of no feeling...And then a silver hare, a boar, and fox soared past Harry, Ron, and Hermione's heads: the dementors fell back before the creatures' approach.†   (source)
  • No one tended the garden, either to water it or to weed it, until it was swallowed up by oblivion, birds, and wild grasses.†   (source)
  • Thus the countryside, which had been the source of his wealth, became a burden, and Senator Trueba frequently had to withdraw money from his other businesses to prop up that insatiable land, which seemed to want to return to the days of oblivion, before he rescued it from misery.†   (source)
  • He ordered them to leave him in peace, insisting that he was not a hero of the nation as they said but an artisan without memories whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she exclaimed: What matters our creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?†   (source)
  • She evoked him as she evoked the day she had sent her first telegram, and she could never erase from her heart the memory of the sad little bird condemned to oblivion.†   (source)
  • The stranger's letter, which no one read, was left to the mercy of the moths on the shelf where Fernanda had forgotten her wedding ring on occasion and there it remained, consuming itself in the inner fire of its bad news as the solitary lovers sailed against the tide of those days of the last stages, those impenitent and ill-fated times which were squandered on the useless effort of making them drift toward the desert of disenchantment and oblivion.†   (source)
  • But Ángeles Alfaro left as she had come, with her tender sex and her sinner's cello, on an ocean liner that flew the flag of oblivion, and all that remained of her on the moonlit roofs was a fluttered farewell with a white handkerchief like a solitary sad dove on the horizon, as if she were a verse from the Poetic Festival.†   (source)
  • Lerolan, oblivions, orange and red.†   (source)
  • But when she saw him enter the house in the middle of Colonel Aureliano Buendia's noisy escort and she saw how he had been mistreated by the rigors of exile, made old by age and oblivion, dirty with sweat and dust, smelling like a herd, ugly, with his left arm in a sling, she felt faint with disillusionment.†   (source)
  • In the postcards that he sent from the way stations he would describe with shouts the instantaneous images that he had seen from the window of his coach, and it was as if he were tearing up and throwing into oblivion some long, evanescent poem: the chimerical Negroes in the cotton fields of Louisiana, the winged horses in the bluegrass of Kentucky, the Greek lovers in the infernal sunsets of Arizona, the girl in the red sweater painting watercolors by a lake in Michigan who waved at him with her brushes, not to say farewell but out of hope, because she did not know that she was watching a train with no return passing by.†   (source)
  • The indolence of the people was in contrast to the voracity of oblivion, which little by little was undermining memories in a pitiless way, to such an extreme that at that time, on another anniversary of the Treaty of Neerlandia, some emissaries from the president of the republic arrived in Macondo to award at last the decoration rejected several times by Colonel Aureliano Buendia, and they spent a whole afternoon looking for someone who could tell them where they could find one of his descendants.†   (source)
  • I enter sleep angry and dread waking up, and when I do wake I lie beside the sleeping body of Jon, in our bed, listening to the rhythm of his breathing and resenting him for the oblivion he still controls.†   (source)
  • He maintained the spell for several seconds, so he could marvel at the beauty of the summoning, and then he let the spell slip free of his grasp and the ghostly sword slowly faded into oblivion.†   (source)
  • A painless oblivion.†   (source)
  • Drinking had drawbacks—namely, the volume needed to reach oblivion—and I didn't like the taste or the history—my mother had done that.†   (source)
  • Percy wasn't sure what that meant, but he wanted to crack the floor and send these stupid gold-shirted twins down to oblivion.†   (source)
  • His eyes swept the crowd and found the Mirror Maze, the empty oblivion which beckoned with ten times a thousand million light years of reflections, counterreflections" reversed and double-reversed, plunging deep to nothing, facefalling to nothing, stomach-dropping away to yet more sickening plummets of nothing.†   (source)
  • But Jace had wanted the oblivion of fighting, the harsh diversion of killing, and the distraction of injuries.†   (source)
  • The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.†   (source)
  • My passport to oblivion.†   (source)
  • The future will erase everything there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion.†   (source)
  • Evan found the baggie that Sam dropped and blew (literally) both Grace and himself to lime-green oblivion.†   (source)
  • His own shadow preceded him, then fell behind, but again preceded him, flowed here into a pool of gloom and vanished like a soul into oblivion, only to swim into view three steps later.†   (source)
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