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  • Perks, you will recollect, was the Porter.   (source)
    recollect = remember
  • A painful recollection flashed into his mind.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • She was pretty too, if my recollections of her face and person are correct.   (source)
    recollections = memories -- especially experiences from long ago
  • Recollect, or I'll pull your hair!   (source)
    recollect = remember
  • Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • I do not recollect that we did.   (source)
    recollect = remember
  • In the last weeks, we'd been reduced to spending our time together in recollection, but that was not nothing: The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.†   (source)
  • Louie felt his ears pop, and vaguely recollected that at the swimming pool at Redondo Beach, his ears would pop at twenty feet.†   (source)
  • By his recollection McCandless stayed in the trailer about a month.†   (source)
  • Vague recollection of stumbling upstairs.†   (source)
  • "It's all right," assured the Count, knowing full well that distress was no friend to recollection.†   (source)
  • Though I sometimes change the names of people to protect their privacy, this story is, to the best of my recollection, a fully accurate portrait of the world I've witnessed.†   (source)
  • But those former connections, the recollections of a shared past, seemed to have been erased from people's heads.†   (source)
  • Cassandra, a close friend, has similar recollections: Cassie wore these ball-chain necklaces and shiny blouses, and I was so scared of her.†   (source)
  • But it was a cloudy kind of recollection—he couldn't remember her name or what she had to do with the Maze, but she seemed familiar.†   (source)
  • At least with the Blue Man, at least with the Captain, he had some recollection of their place in his life.†   (source)
  • A look of vague recollection crossed her face.†   (source)
  • The recollections he did have were very painful.†   (source)
  • Her recollections will serve as a lasting guide in the art of living well.†   (source)
  • He wondered if he had been knocked unconscious, because he had only dim recollections of events immediately preceding the moment he had sat up, groaning, in the woods ten yards from the Land Cruiser.†   (source)
  • In my recollections, Daddy's presence in any scene had the effect of dimming the surroundings, and I didn't have many recollections at all of our life with him before her death.†   (source)
  • Just hazy recollections of long, adult legs shuffling around our apartment and hands lifting me from my high chair.†   (source)
  • That voice would jolt her memory; that voice caused her recollections to surface, almost every time.†   (source)
  • His only recollection was a feeling of sheer, joyful exuberance, himself in celebration: shouting "A-men!" in the Bethany Church, bashing John McNab's fastballs out of sight, dancing the polka with Grayson.†   (source)
  • HER MEMORIES of the interrogation and signed statements and testimony, or of her awe outside the courtroom from which her youth excluded her, would not trouble her so much in the years to come as her fragmented recollection of that late night and summer dawn.†   (source)
  • It is my earliest recollection: telling the Moon Lady my secret wish.†   (source)
  • It has a whiff of emotion recollected, if not in tranquillity, at least post facto.†   (source)
  • All the preparation seems to melt away and I have no recollection of the day-to-day activities I did to prepare for an infant's arrival.†   (source)
  • And though he had witnessed that stage of her himself, he can no longer picture it; those vague recollections of her he's carried with him all his life have been wiped clean, replaced by the woman he knows now At Brown her rebellion had been academic.†   (source)
  • He paused, half-frightened by the recollection yet proud of the sensation he was creating.†   (source)
  • Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books—a book of excerpts from the recollections of concentration camp survivors.†   (source)
  • My nose and mouth recollected Momma's, but the set of the eyes, those came from Poppa.†   (source)
  • He'd been telling people about it, telling people about it at great length, he rather suspected: his clearest visual recollection was of glazed looks on other people's faces.†   (source)
  • Describe to us your recollection of the incident.†   (source)
  • Maybe after the procedure I'll wake up as from a high fever, with only a vague recollection of my dreams and a sense of overwhelming relief.†   (source)
  • Though I witnessed a part of Enrique's journey, much of his travel and life come from the recollections of Enrique and his mother.†   (source)
  • I don't have any recollection of that at all, sir.†   (source)
  • Panic-filled recollections flooded my mind, blotting out the courtroom proceedings.†   (source)
  • He spent a long time examining Eragon's recollections of the Ra'zac, and then later the Shade.†   (source)
  • It put me out much so that when I really woke up I was on base with no recollection of working out at home and driving myself to base.†   (source)
  • I had a faint recollection of my grandmother Etta, an ancient black woman with a beautiful face who seemed very confused, walking around with a blue dress and a fishing pole, the bait, tackle, and line dragging down around her ankles.†   (source)
  • When I stare at them with the rainy-season light in my eyes and Congo grit in my teeth, I can hardly recollect the place where such items were commonplace, merely a yellow pencil, merely a green bottle of aspirin among so many other green bottles upon a high shelf.†   (source)
  • "Some of the professors here recollected him as being a scamp," the university said.†   (source)
  • She had some vague recollection of a terrible child abduction and murder— Francis checked his watch, as if knowing that explaining Denmark would steal a minute from him.†   (source)
  • So I tried to recollect what I'd seen back where I was before Sweet Home.†   (source)
  • "I was to Holland once," he said, voice wistful with recollection.†   (source)
  • Over the next several months, as it often happens, I managed to erase the story's flaws from my memory, taking pride in a shadowy, idealized recollection of its virtues.†   (source)
  • I could not recollect all of the nightmarish details of my fight with Python, but I did know he had been no pushover.†   (source)
  • His recollection of Walt Disney as a young man, briefly mentioned in Grinding It Out, is not entirely flattering.†   (source)
  • Belatedly, Clary recollected something.†   (source)
  • I want their recollections to be as sharp as possible.†   (source)
  • He has no recollection of their approach, of the bats on his skull, of the bone fragments being driven into his brain.†   (source)
  • Amy had been fond of recollecting stories of men obsessed with her.†   (source)
  • He still had the nostalgic memory of his youth, his vivid recollection of the Poetic Festival, whose thunder sounded throughout the Antilles every April 15.†   (source)
  • Yet I still have no recollection beyond his initial leaving.†   (source)
  • I've had no recollection of it but now I know he bought it and put it there.†   (source)
  • I was struck by the similarities between his and Akiane's recollections: all the colors in heaven …. and especially their descriptions of Jesus' eyes.†   (source)
  • As time passed, the recollections were more pleasant than painful.†   (source)
  • He could not recollect his reason for being there—why he had enlisted to fight in the marines, what the point of it was.†   (source)
  • Personally, I have no recollections from my former lives.†   (source)
  • She tried her grandmother next, who had a vague recollection about her mother-in-law mentioning an uncle, possibly a great-uncle, maybe a cousin, who'd been born in the hills of Maryland.†   (source)
  • She looks towards the galena, where the two empty chairs facing each other recollect the vanished speakers.†   (source)
  • We passed houses which I knew well by daylight but couldn't recollect in the swarthy gloom.†   (source)
  • He had no recollection of posing for either one, and that frightened him immensely.†   (source)
  • "I 'ave no recollection o' any-thin' 'cept dese islan's.†   (source)
  • "I am sorry, but I don't have the least recollection of what you're telling me."†   (source)
  • To complete this book we have had to rely on a good deal besides my own recollections.†   (source)
  • I have no recollection of what more we talked about, if anything.†   (source)
  • One of my first recollections of you was at a Company inspection in which all the footlockers were open for inspection.†   (source)
  • During the course of those ten hours, you were relying on him to be truthful with you in his recollection of events, right?†   (source)
  • Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it.†   (source)
  • It could not really be recollected because it had become a part of him.†   (source)
  • The Dwarf — if he is the lightning-rod man — is mad — and, God willing, won't recollect!†   (source)
  • I recollected small incidents and adventures in Orlando when she was a baby, and how she had rarely cried even when she was small.†   (source)
  • McCormick doesn't have any recollection of speaking to the women.†   (source)
  • The knowledge that the gathering was safely round the corner came to Hazel in the form of a recollection of Silver's head and paws breaking through gravel.†   (source)
  • In fact, I was thinking yesterday that I have a vague recollection of you running around in nothing but a diaper.†   (source)
  • She clutched the window-sill and stood choking and blinded, fighting with a crowd of daunting recollections and miserable apprehensions.†   (source)
  • I, however, have distinct recollection of the collective trauma.†   (source)
  • Yet my recollection of them was a child's recollection and I must have been to them something wholly unknown.†   (source)
  • But by the turn of the century, lynchings were hardly the everyday occurrence that they are often considered in the public recollection.†   (source)
  • For Aunt J, it would be recollection reborn.†   (source)
  • "He found that cap in the fifties, to the best of my recollection," Augustus said.†   (source)
  • She seemed to issue from Marvin's story, a recollected figure taking material form.†   (source)
  • Aisha vigorously contested views of Islam that were hostile to women, and she recorded 2,210 hadith, or recollections of Muhammad used in Islam to supplement and clarify Koranic teachings.†   (source)
  • Vague recollections of last night come to me—the realms, the runes, the huntress's strange expression, the four of us stumbling home from the caves afterward—but it's mostly a fog in my head.†   (source)
  • Teachers had to recollect details from past performances of many years ago, but miraculously this collaboration worked and resulted in thecomplete ballet being produced.†   (source)
  • It isn't until the fifth stage of grief that the memories of them stop hurting as much—when the recollections become positive.†   (source)
  • "All he'd say was, 'I just happened to land there and we put up the flag and someone took a photo,' " was how Rene Jr. described his father's recollection.†   (source)
  • "If they argue—and all loving couples argue—they'll never be alone to recollect themselves, to find ways to forgive each other."†   (source)
  • I ask you to review the statement and ask you if that refreshes your recollection as to the information you gave at the time?†   (source)
  • I recollect the time when young Frodo Baggins was one of the worst young rascals of Buckland.†   (source)
  • I made a fast recollection of the crime scene.†   (source)
  • It was not the old serenity, the pensiveness that was recollection.†   (source)
  • Boy, we used to have fun in that fraternity house,' he recalled peacefully, his corpulent cheeks aglow with the jovial, rubicund warmth of nostalgic recollection.†   (source)
  • "I can't recollect.†   (source)
  • He pauses from the. recollection for a moment, sits up, pillow propped against the cinder blocks, and gathers himself.†   (source)
  • Except for the certainty that sat like a spike in his gut that it was somehow his doing, even though he had no recollection how or where or when.†   (source)
  • A way to help my recollection of the way things are.†   (source)
  • To Squire's recollection, it was the largest loss on any customer contract Seth was ever involved in.†   (source)
  • And recollecting herself, "Ship."†   (source)
  • And why does no rain fall through my recollections, sound through my memories, soak through the hard dry crust of the still so recent past?†   (source)
  • Recollect the strength, the resources, and above all the spirit of the British nation, which when roused knows no opposition.†   (source)
  • It is sweeter than the recollection I have of the time she sat me down in the middle of a wild strawberry patch and let me eat my way out again, richer than all the times she took me swimming in jade-colored streams and threw a big rock in the water to run off the water moccasins.†   (source)
  • Bernardine raised his eyebrows in sudden recollection.†   (source)
  • I think He gives us precious recollections so that we may not be parted entirely from those He has given us to love.†   (source)
  • Mother's recollection was off by two years.†   (source)
  • Celia fears their recollections—the smashed chairs that left splinters in their feet, the obscenities that hung like electric insects in the air.†   (source)
  • They reminded him of something, and increasingly he sensed that the recollection was as important as it was elusive.†   (source)
  • A dim recollection of misery and pain touched me.†   (source)
  • Ser Osmund, what is your recollection of the conversation?†   (source)
  • Conversations have been reconstructed from my recollections.†   (source)
  • If you with your knowledge of present and past recall that a certain man slipped on, say, a banana peel, or fell off his chair, or drowned in a river, that recollection does not mean that you caused him to slip, or fall, or drown.†   (source)
  • My mom's strongest recollection of those moments, which must have been overwhelming for her, was an unexpected and indescribable peace.†   (source)
  • The recollections of both Lawford and Mafia members have been dissected thoroughly.†   (source)
  • He picked up his drink, took a gulp, and chuckled abruptly at a sudden recollection.†   (source)
  • Not that I recollect.†   (source)
  • (Pleased recollection) …. and Saturdays the banana boat, the whole peeled banana, scooped out on top, with green grapes for the crew, a double line of green grapes, and along the sides, stuck to the boat with toothpicks, orange slices ….†   (source)
  • As she recollects for the first time the full significance of OLUNDE'S presence.†   (source)
  • That made me recollect how Birdsong Creek had got its name.†   (source)
  • At this lunch, according to the recollections of Wheelock, the men bemoaned the spiritual state of the nation--that "material values were gaining and spiritual values were losing.†   (source)
  • Most people technically remembered the departed, but the recollections were hazy, as though some fundamental bond had been severed or anesthetized.†   (source)
  • Like the rest of us, over the years she had developed extremely keen powers of observation and recollection.†   (source)
  • They were silent and reflective almost to a man, thinking of their families in recollections brought on by the special grace of early morning.†   (source)
  • No recollection of his face?†   (source)
  • As nearly as I can recollect, this was the sense of his speech on introducing the bill.†   (source)
  • Kessell's own subconscious recollections of Ten-Towns when he had spotted the column of smoke had stirred the relic's hunger, so it now used the same empathetic power of suggestion on Kessell.†   (source)
  • Last time I saw him, as I recollect.†   (source)
  • Hard to recollect.†   (source)
  • Recollections of how I'd thrown Sofia up against that pillar entered my mind.†   (source)
  • Mind you, Mike had been awake a year—just how long I can't say, nor could he as he had no recollection of waking up; he had not been programmed to bank memory of such event.†   (source)
  • This his ear, his neck, his elbow seemed to recollect.†   (source)
  • DYSART: You have no recollection of the first time you noticed a horse?†   (source)
  • What do you recollect?†   (source)
  • The beginning of that Sunday afternoon remains one of the pleasantest blurs amid a lifetime of blurred recollections.†   (source)
  • It came into me as a memory comes, without benefit of external stimulus, but lacking the Lucite layer of self-consciousness that turns thought to recollection by touching it with time, as in a dream.†   (source)
  • (He wheels back to BRADY) I recollect a story about Joshua, making the sun stand still.†   (source)
  • Surging up out of the depths of memory came a vivid recollection of a night in Belleville when all of us were seated around the supper table—Uncle Allen, my mother, Uncle Charlie, Doris,Uncle Hal—and Aunt Pat served spaghetti for supper.†   (source)
  • When Conrad, Gordon, and Bean blasted off from Cape Kennedy, amidst the swirl of thoughts that passed swiftly through their minds, the hundreds of fragmental recollections that flashed before them at the instant of takeoff, the one that never occurred to them was that eighteen children and one teacher on Yamacraw Island shouted the last ten digits of the countdown and cheered as the rocket lifted off the launchpad on the first step of the journey to the moon.†   (source)
  • When Gobblehook first come here, you recollect how he shook their hands, like he didn't know the difference, like he might have been as black as them, but when it come to finding out Sulk was taking turkeys, he gone on and told her.†   (source)
  • He had that close-cropped, freshly washed look so often associated with bright young college football players and nice boys, but my recollection of his playing and of the gossip around the world of sports was that he was something less than a nice boy.†   (source)
  • Lara, lying ill in bed, filled her leisure with recollections.†   (source)
  • Then she, too, recollected.†   (source)
  • The girl nodded, then recollecting herself she drew aside so that we could enter, came after us and stood biting her lip as if uncertain what to say.†   (source)
  • I can scarcely recollect a single instance of success in anything that I ever undertook.†   (source)
  • I really don't recollect the faintest.†   (source)
  • MORE (Recollecting) Ah yes, you are to be felicitated.†   (source)
  • Duffy winced in recollection.†   (source)
  • I am at home here, Phoebe, you must recollect, and you are the stranger.   (source)
  • She would invoke the past, recall old recollections;   (source)
    recollections = memories from long ago
  • "You recollect the way?" inquired the Spirit.   (source)
    recollect = remember
  • Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete.   (source)
  • He had just enough recollection of the face to desire to do that.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • For a moment only did I lose recollection; I fell senseless on the ground.   (source)
  • I recollected my threat and resolved that it should be accomplished.   (source)
    recollected = remembered
  • My hand was already on the lock of the door before I recollected myself.   (source)
  • Yet one duty remained to me, the recollection of which finally triumphed over my selfish despair.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • Anne's recollections of the concert were quite happy enough to animate her features and make her rejoice to talk of it.   (source)
    recollections = memories
  • Perhaps you recollect me?   (source)
    recollect = to remember
  • In this occupation she hoped, moreover, to bury some of the recollections of Mansfield, which were too apt to seize her mind   (source)
    recollections = memories
  • A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard in the afternoon now came crowding upon his recollection.   (source)
  • but when I recollect all the uneasiness I occasioned her, and how little I deserve to be forgiven, I am mad with anger.   (source)
    recollect = remember
  • How well I recollect the wintry ride!   (source)
  • "And I know," said Bob, "I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was; although he was a little, little child; we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it."   (source)
  • You doubtless recollect these papers.   (source)
  • I shut my eyes involuntarily and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer.   (source)
  • Justine, you may remember, was a great favourite of yours; and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica—she looked so frank-hearted and happy.   (source)
  • Oppressed by the recollection of my various misfortunes, I now swallowed double my usual quantity and soon slept profoundly.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • My mother's tender caresses and my father's smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections.   (source)
    recollections = memories
  • I must pause here, for it requires all my fortitude to recall the memory of the frightful events which I am about to relate, in proper detail, to my recollection.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval; his presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection.   (source)
  • If I looked up, I saw scenes which were familiar to me in my happier time and which I had contemplated but the day before in the company of her who was now but a shadow and a recollection.   (source)
  • I had an obscure feeling that all was not over and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past.   (source)
  • I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was entering on a new scene of life, undisturbed by any care or bitter recollection.   (source)
  • And although I could not consent to go and hear that little conceited fellow deliver sentences out of a pulpit, I recollected what he had said of M. Waldman, whom I had never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.   (source)
    recollected = remembered
  • I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.   (source)
    recollections = memories
  • I saw plainly that he was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide in him that event which was so often present to my recollection, but which I feared the detail to another would only impress more deeply.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • for the life of me, I cannot recollect it.   (source)
    recollect = remember
  • Recollecting, soon afterwards, that he was probably dividing Elinor from her sister, he put an end to his visit   (source)
    recollecting = remembering
  • She has no recollection of the incident at all.†   (source)
  • He had a faint recollection of seeing a ladder in here somewhere.†   (source)
  • "It was like I was very drunk," Kruse recollects.†   (source)
  • Langdon tried to gather his recollections of the story.†   (source)
  • Simon looked as if the recollection surprised him.†   (source)
  • They didn't fare well last night, recollect, and with the power out things will be worse."†   (source)
  • When Edgar looked up, his father had a look of shocked recollection on his face.†   (source)
  • Professor Slughorn has meddled with his own recollections.†   (source)
  • But like I say, I don't recollect it much anymore.†   (source)
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