All 31 Uses of
recollect
in
War and Peace
- The third company was the last, and Kutuzov pondered, apparently trying to recollect something.†
Chpt 2
- Prince Andrew remembered the story of Suvorov giving his saber to Bagration in Italy, and the recollection was particularly pleasant at that moment.†
Chpt 2
- It is high time for you to get away from these terrible recollections.†
Chpt 3 *
- Prince Vasili readily adopted her tone and the little princess also drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of things that had never occurred.†
Chpt 3
- When Paris was mentioned, Mademoiselle Bourienne for her part seized the opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections.†
Chpt 3
- He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection.†
Chpt 4
- Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful understanding of his employer's happiness.†
Chpt 4
- All Denisov's Moscow friends gave him a farewell entertainment at the gypsies', with the result that he had no recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three stages of his journey.†
Chpt 4
- I recollected myself and drove away that thought only when I found myself glowing with anger, but I did not sufficiently repent.†
Chpt 6
- He became silent, and I recollected myself only when it was too late.†
Chpt 6
- The memory of Natasha was his most poetic recollection.†
Chpt 6
- Natasha blushed at that recollection and tried to excuse herself, as if there had been something to be ashamed of in what Prince Andrew had overheard.†
Chpt 6
- To her impatience and pining for him were now added the unpleasant recollection of her interview with Princess Mary and the old prince, and a fear and anxiety of which she did not understand the cause.†
Chpt 8
- As soon as she began to think of him, the recollection of the old prince, of Princess Mary, of the theater, and of Kuragin mingled with her thoughts.†
Chpt 8
- "Do you know, one Christmas I drove from Tver," said Anatole, smilingly at the recollection and turning to Makarin who gazed rapturously at him with wide-open eyes.†
Chpt 8
- As soon as she began to laugh, or tried to sing by herself, tears choked her: tears of remorse, tears at the recollection of those pure times which could never return, tears of vexation that she should so uselessly have ruined her young life which might have been so happy.†
Chpt 9
- He smiled at the recollection of that time and of his love for Natasha, and passed at once to what now interested him passionately and exclusively.†
Chpt 10
- I remember, yes, I remember you with the standard!" said Kutuzov, and a flush of pleasure suffused Prince Andrew's face at this recollection.†
Chpt 10
- His very first, remotest recollections of childhood came back to Prince Andrew's mind when the dresser with sleeves rolled up began hastily to undo the buttons of his clothes and undressed him.†
Chpt 10
- "Ah!" exclaimed Rostopchin, as if struck by an unexpected recollection.†
Chpt 11
- Even now he felt clearly that the gory trace of that recollection would not pass with time, but that the terrible memory would, on the contrary, dwell in his heart ever more cruelly and painfully to the end of his life.†
Chpt 11
- Then he recounted an episode in which the husband played the part of the lover, and he—the lover—assumed the role of the husband, as well as several droll incidents from his recollections of Germany, where "shelter" is called Unterkunft and where the husbands eat sauerkraut and the young girls are "too blonde."†
Chpt 11
- Having repeated these words the captain wiped his eyes and gave himself a shake, as if driving away the weakness which assailed him at this touching recollection.†
Chpt 11
- She had in fact seen nothing then but had mentioned the first thing that came into her head, but what she had invented then seemed to her now as real as any other recollection.†
Chpt 12
- The sight of them reminded him of all he had experienced and learned during these weeks and this recollection was pleasant to him.†
Chpt 13
- …the look Platon had given him as he sat under the tree, of the shot heard from that spot, of the dog's howl, of the guilty faces of the two Frenchmen as they ran past him, of the lowered and smoking gun, and of Karataev's absence at this halt—and he was on the point of realizing that Karataev had been killed, but just at that instant, he knew not why, the recollection came to his mind of a summer evening he had spent with a beautiful Polish lady on the veranda of his house in Kiev.†
Chpt 14
- At first he spoke with the amused and mild irony now customary with him toward everybody and especially toward himself, but when he came to describe the horrors and sufferings he had witnessed he was unconsciously carried away and began speaking with the suppressed emotion of a man re-experiencing in recollection strong impressions he has lived through.†
Chpt 15
- "Such an insolent scoundrel!" he cried, growing hot again at the mere recollection of him.†
Chpt 15
- The conversation at supper was not about politics or societies, but turned on the subject Nicholas liked best—recollections of 1812.†
Chpt 15
- "Well, then, you know," Nicholas went on, growing hot at the mere recollection of their discussion, "he wanted to convince me that it is every honest man's duty to go against the government, and that the oath of allegiance and duty….†
Chpt 15
- Natasha knew why he mentioned Mitya's likeness to Nicholas: the recollection of his dispute with his brother-in-law was unpleasant and he wanted to know what Natasha thought of it.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(recollect) to remember -- especially experiences from long agoeditor's notes: Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Relative to its synonyms, recollect brings to mind a leisurely piecing together of distant memories. It may be used in a less formal manner than remember and is almost always less formal than recall.