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memento
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    Commonly, a memento of combat kept only to stir the memory.†  (source)
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    His eyes looked sad as he stared at our little memento.†  (source)
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    Photographs, IDs, any little memento that isn't made of ceramic—trash.†  (source)
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    What kind of memento do you get for the mother who has loved you your whole life, who has given up the world for you?†  (source)
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    There were gifts, heirlooms, and mementos we got to touch or see only at Christmas or Easter.†  (source)
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    I walked up the hill, dodging this season's hovering early few as they clutched their neoprene fanny packs and well-thumbed tourist guides, their cameras already poised to capture mementoes of the castle in spring.†  (source)
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    The memento was not for him but for Mary Jane Welles, wife of Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles and one of Mary Todd Lincoln's few friends in Washington.†  (source)
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    There were the few pathetic mementos of thirty years in other people's homes.†  (source)
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    We had filled out in a year, but we still carried aggrieved mementoes of the journey.†  (source)
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    Another Latin expression that was widely quoted was 'memento mori,' which means 'Remember that you must die.'†  (source)
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    And now she had a real closet to store a few mementos—a little scrap-closet of her fallen-away family.†  (source)
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    The quiet in Amatis's house, the homey rag rugs on the floor, the carefully arranged personal mementoes—everything spoke of an ordinary life interrupted in the most terrible way possible.†  (source)
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    The old gravestones are still there, weathered, eroding, with their skulls and crossed bones, memento mori, their dough-faced angels, their winged hourglasses to remind us of the passing of mortal time, and, from a later century, their urns and willow trees, for mourning.†  (source)
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