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  • With great force Rovender Kitt pushed the time-forgotten door open.

    The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

  • Although the heat can be overwhelming, Sardinia's beaches, time-forgotten sea towns and archaeological ruins make it worth a visit even during peak season.

    World's Sexiest Islands © Corbis Anguilla,... 2006

  • Altogether, I have never, on any occasion, made one at such a cosey, dosey, old-fashioned, time-forgotten, sleepy-headed little family-party in all my life; and I felt it would be quite a soothing opiate to belong to it in any character - except perhaps as a suitor.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • Altogether, I have never, on any occasion, made one at such a cosey, dozey, old-fashioned, time-forgotten, sleepy-headed little family-party in all my life; and I felt it would be quite a soothing opiate to belong to it in any character—except perhaps as a suitor.

    XXIII. I Corroborate Mr. Dick and Choose a Profession 1917

  • Homer was more familiar with it thundering on the precipices, or lisping on the yellow sands of time-forgotten Mediterranean islands.

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

  • Altogether, I have never, on any occasion, made one at such a cosey, dosey, old-fashioned, time-forgotten, sleepy-headed little family-party in all my life; and I felt it would be quite a soothing opiate to belong to it in any character-except perhaps as a suitor.

    David Copperfield 1850

  • Altogether, I have never, on any occasion, made one at such a cosey, dosey, old-fashioned, time-forgotten, sleepy-headed little family-party in all my life; and I felt it would be quite a soothing opiate to belong to it in any character - except perhaps as a suitor.

    David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841

  • Some had snowboards, marking the limits of tradition even in these time-forgotten crannies.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • There's no kind of wonderful in Mary Stuart Masterson's directorial debut, yet however slight her ensemble drama - about two distressed families in the Rockwellian framings of time-forgotten rural America - it's at least convincing in its genuine sweetness.

    Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • Susan Saulny: "Manhattan's movie muggings, foot chases and murders have become so commonplace in a few alleyways in TriBeCa and Chinatown that the alleys themselves have become celebrities in their own darkly intriguing way, as time-forgotten stand-ins for what more of the city used to be."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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