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  • Periodically the club would get together to sing, dance, reminisce, and raise money to help various charities.†   (source)
  • Luckily for me, Hobie didn't like to talk about Welty's death but every now and then —not often, usually late at night when he'd had a few drinks—he was moved to reminisce.†   (source)
  • Vince and I sat together at the church dinner, reminiscing about our earlier dates, and for the first time I felt as though we were good friends again.†   (source)
  • A few days after this, I found the two of them sitting in the courtyard before dinner, reminiscing like comrades stuck together through the ages like glue and lacquer.†   (source)
  • Out there, alone, living under a tarp, drinking wine from paper cups, naming seals, reminiscing about island fires.†   (source)
  • It reminded Adam of an old movie he'd seen on television—It Happened One Night, with Clark Gable and some actress, Claudette Somebody—and his father and mother remembered the movie, too, and it was good talking and joking and reminiscing, and then settling down.†   (source)
  • But of all the secret punishments that Chacko tormented Mammachi with, the worst and most mortifying of all was when he reminisced about Margaret Kochamma.†   (source)
  • It was around this point - and I have no idea if he had planned to do so beforehand - that his lordship began to reminisce about his late friend, Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann.†   (source)
  • We reminisced, we horsed around and we made fun of each other.†   (source)
  • He said his father once owned a mill, and the girls who worked in it came from the country, and were kept very tidy and lived in boarding houses provided, with respectable and sober landladies and no drink allowed and sometimes a parlour piano, and only twelve hours of work per day and Sunday mornings off for church; and by the moist and reminiscing look in his eye, I would not be surprised to learn that he once had a sweetheart among them.†   (source)
  • They reminisced that three years ago no one would have even thought of locking their doors at night, let alone barring them.†   (source)
  • After a thrilling run of thirty years, did I want to spend the rest of my career with a scowl, reminiscing about the good old days?†   (source)
  • From the time I put the desk into service, I kept a photo of Pop in the top left drawer and pulled it out every now and then to reminisce.†   (source)
  • They gave me a puzzled look, decided I was incomprehensible, and continued their reminiscing about old squint-eyed Shirley.†   (source)
  • We sang, told stories, reminisced about this or that.†   (source)
  • They reminisced over Bailey's teaching me to walk when he was less than three.†   (source)
  • Ruth reminisces.†   (source)
  • Something about the twin scars banked deep into his memory, but now was not the time for reminiscing.†   (source)
  • The prisoner reminisced.†   (source)
  • Over the next few hours we spoke excitedly of America, reminiscing.†   (source)
  • We spent the whole evening reminiscing.†   (source)
  • Reminiscing, actually.†   (source)
  • Nina, her bangs in rollers, tilted her head as she reminisced about Passovers past.†   (source)
  • While Adam seemed saddened by the reminiscing, Kelley loved hearing about his crazy stunts—the belly flops, the bridge jump—but she was deeply touched by the story of his refusing to take the life jacket off at the lake because his mother had told him not to.†   (source)
  • ' "Back in the Bay Area, Mortenson called George McCown, and the two reminisced about the twist of fortune that brought them together on the other side of the Earth, on a trail through the Upper Braldu.†   (source)
  • "You went into the Marines because you wanted to be the best," Stanton reminisced to me many years later.†   (source)
  • Then we reminisced about a water fight we'd had a hundred years ago, and I felt a pang of sadness that next year Herman would be gone to start his life.†   (source)
  • 'It was kind of nice being a P.F.C.,' he reminisced yearningly.†   (source)
  • Barbara feels each mile and, as the hours pass, reminisces about her life, while Cedric, nervously cracking sunflower shells, has his eyes fixed ahead.†   (source)
  • Ghosh asked questions left and right, cajoling Stone into talking, instructing, even reminiscing.†   (source)
  • The flight to Singapore had been a long, sleepless affair during which Kara and Tom had flipped through channels on the small em-bedded screens and reminisced about their years in Southeast Asia.†   (source)
  • By that Sunday I was packed and riding three hours into the mountains with my mother, who spend the entire ride reminiscing about her own golden camp years and promising me I'd thank her when it was over.†   (source)
  • But now I felt that I was sharing in a great work and, with the car leaping leisurely beneath the pressure of my foot, I identified myself with the rich man reminiscing on the rear seat ….†   (source)
  • I haven't time to reminisce.†   (source)
  • After some reminiscing and retelling of stories about his father, Adam finally brought up the subject he had avoided for years.†   (source)
  • As a crowd gathered outside the Adams house, numbers of the family filled the room where the two old heroes sat reminiscing, Adams hugely enjoying the occasion.†   (source)
  • Just …. just reminisce about all those good times you spent together.†   (source)
  • Lourdes begins reminiscing about the instant foods she made when she first came to New York.†   (source)
  • Jared interrupts my reminiscing.†   (source)
  • That was one of the most memorable times of my college career, spending time and listening to him reminisce about how he came to attend Georgia and describe some of the highlights of his long and spectacular college and professional football career.†   (source)
  • In the second, the apartment was his home, and he was lounging on the sofa, laughing uproariously as Charlie, for my benefit, reminisced about those contentious dinner-table lessons in American idioms.†   (source)
  • As Max reminisced on that fateful evening, he found himself glowering ahead at Mr. Morrow.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they reminisce.†   (source)
  • Middle-aged veterans in the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans held joint encampments at which they reminisced about the glorious deeds of their youth.†   (source)
  • He was the model of courtesy, reminiscing warmly about Lord Hoster, offering Catelyn gentle condolences on the loss of Bran and Rickon, praising Edmure for the victory at Stone Mill, and thanking Robb for the "swift sure justice" he had meted out to Rickard Karstark.†   (source)
  • He sat off to one side, withdrawing, had one long hot swig from Armistead's flask, disciplined himself not to take another, withdrew against the trunk of a cool tree, letting the night come over him, listening to them talk, reminiscing.†   (source)
  • "We'll have to reminisce later.†   (source)
  • Les was Reminiscing last night.†   (source)
  • "The Allied liberators," he reminisced, "arrived, unfortunately, before we could gather enough data.†   (source)
  • But for the most part her mood was funereal when she spoke of Nathan, reminiscing with a persistent use of the past tense; it was as if she were speaking of someone long ago dead and buried.†   (source)
  • We finished our drinks then and fell to reminiscing.†   (source)
  • Reminisced about the time ancient Aunt Henrietta was mistaken for a ghost by two carpenters and scared them so badly they jumped out the second-floor window.†   (source)
  • To my left, Manuel de Moya commences reminiscing about his New York modeling days.†   (source)
  • He reminisced about the stimulating conversations that took place in rustic pubs over warm beer.†   (source)
  • Reminiscing with Dede was better than facing the flood of memories in the front room.†   (source)
  • "We talked, we ate, we reminisced," he pointed out.†   (source)
  • Red Pollard sipped his scotch and reminisced about Seabiscuit and quietly slipped out of history.†   (source)
  • Our last Saturday night on the Island, the compound folks sit on Tia Carmen's patio, reminiscing.†   (source)
  • That is why I've come, not to reminisce about your dreams.†   (source)
  • Had not even reminisced much about it recently.†   (source)
  • "They'd learn 'fire and movement,' " Dave Severance reminisced to me.†   (source)
  • The others talked quietly, reminiscing, but another horse followed him-Mikil probably.†   (source)
  • I'd love to stay here reminiscing, Bernard said, but I really should go.†   (source)
  • "We had some tough times, all right," says Mrs. Clare, reminiscing.†   (source)
  • That afternoon they rode six abreast and reminisced about the colored forest.†   (source)
  • The film launched me back into a bucket of tears' worth of nostalgia and reminiscing.†   (source)
  • The old women of the island sat around and reminisced about their girlhood.†   (source)
  • "I asked Jan to go out with me as soon as I got down from Everest," Hall reminisced during our first night in the village.†   (source)
  • If it was difficult to find evidence about the boy Riddle, it has been almost impossible to find anyone prepared to reminisce about the man Voldemort.†   (source)
  • There were times when I wanted badly to tell her, when I wanted us to reminisce about Hailsham with the tape playing in the background.†   (source)
  • We spent some time reminiscing about various persons from the past, or else exchanging any news we had concerning them, and this was, I must say, most enjoyable.†   (source)
  • For the next few minutes, Miss Emily went on reminiscing about different events from those days, mentioning a lot of people whose names meant nothing to us.†   (source)
  • Boris—happily gobbling—was reminiscing about his first and only attempt to ride a bicycle in the city (wipeout, disaster) and also how much he enjoyed the new herring in Amsterdam, which fortunately wasn't in season since apparently you ate it by holding it up by the tail fin and dangling it down into your mouth, but I was too disoriented by my surroundings to listen very closely and with almost painfully heightened senses I stirred at the potato mess with my fork and felt the…†   (source)
  • Mother moved about the house with the vitality of ten people, mixing tinctures and essential oils, directing her employees between making funeral arrangements and cooking for every cousin and aunt who dropped in unannounced to reminisce about Grandma.†   (source)
  • Sasaki asked a few questions about Louie's odyssey, then began reminiscing about USC, meals at the student union, ten-cent movies on campus.†   (source)
  • He thanked them for their guidance and love, reminisced about the places he had gone with them, and told them what had mattered most to him in life.†   (source)
  • Not long ago, when Tommy and I were reminiscing about all of this, he thought we'd never really believed in the notion, that it was a joke right from the start.†   (source)
  • "Unworthy of privilege" and "misuse of opportunity": these were two regular phrases Ruth and I came up with when we were reminiscing in her room at the centre in Dover.†   (source)
  • Now he spent most of his days reminiscing on his porch and tending to an absence belted into a wheelchair.†   (source)
  • If, for instance, the two of us were reminiscing about old Hailsham people, he'd sooner or later move the conversation round to one of his current donor friends who'd maybe said or done something similar to what we were recalling.†   (source)
  • Just reminiscing.†   (source)
  • In those private moments, they sometimes reminisced about the summer and told stories about their dad, which they both found comforting.†   (source)
  • But years from now, when you're feeling nostalgic about this summer and yet can't really reminisce because of a lack of documentation, don't blame me.†   (source)
  • And in the course of our reminiscing we happened to bring up the carnivals the school used to sponsor-marvelous, noisy, gala occasions.†   (source)
  • In Washington, Tara remembers, her father's friend Ed Hillary would drop over for visits, and the two indefatigable climbers would spend lazy evenings sprawled in front of the television, drinking cheap beer, reminiscing about Everest, and working their way through rented piles of the old western movies they both adored.†   (source)
  • Reviewing his curious, searching day, he wonders about why he needed to get away on his own and reminisce.†   (source)
  • Coach Mullen and I sat together on the bus, reminiscing about all we had been through together and as a team.†   (source)
  • They retreated to the house afterward, alternately reminiscing about Tuck and sitting in companionable silence.†   (source)
  • We had settled into a companionable antagonism, wherein I threatened to kill her several times a day, as we three codefendants would sit and play cards, reminisce, compare notes on our respective prisons, or just complain.†   (source)
  • He sent for Babu, Adid, Evangeline, and Mrs. Reddy and the other bridge players; I heard them laughing and reminiscing, though it wasn't all laughter.†   (source)
  • To Bourne's annoyance, Conklin and the KGB officer reminisced like two aging professionals dissecting each other's strategies in past intelligence operations, pointing out the deficiencies each held to be with the other's.†   (source)
  • Joe Rodriguez, who was in the same fire team as Ira and Franklin (they reported to Harlon, who reported to Mike), reminisced about Mike's leadership: Everybody idolized Mike.†   (source)
  • It ends further back than he usually reminisces, to when he was just a kid— maybe thirteen-and his father, Freddie, visited from Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • Cedric just smiles, and around the room they go, pulling up obscure CDs and humming songs and reminiscing.†   (source)
  • Walking back to the dorm, he thinks again of his date with Chiniqua, of them talking about Keith Sweat and laughing and reminiscing.†   (source)
  • He reminisces for a while and throws out a few light aphorisms before turning bleak and discussing Bosnia and balkanism, victims of wars, and conflicts across the globe.†   (source)
  • Staring at the statue, he begins reminiscing, telling Cedric how he won it for placing first in the annual Latin Bee at a nearly all white high school-a Catholic boarding school-that he attended in Savannah in the mid1960s.†   (source)
  • Like many old people's, his conversation constantly reverted to the past, and during the trip he reminisced about his boyhood and his career in education.†   (source)
  • Taking a gamble one night, however, and breaking a romantically noble resolution I had made not to let anyone look at the book until its final sentence, and then only Alfred A. Knopf in person, I gave him ninety pages or so, which he read at the Pink Palace while Sophie sat with me at the Maple Court, reminiscing about her childhood and Cracow.†   (source)
  • They reminisced about past Christmases, or, as Francie put it, they talked about olden times.†   (source)
  • She wanted to live things--or as a compromise, re-live rather than reminisce.†   (source)
  • Reminiscing) Old Farmer McCarthy!†   (source)
  • They went home to a good Thanksgiving dinner of pot roast and home-made noodles and spent the afternoon listening to Papa reminisce how he had gone around Thanksgiving Day as a boy.†   (source)
  • The flat was filled with neighbor women who stood around praying and reminiscing about their own child-bed experiences.†   (source)
  • He was reminiscing.†   (source)
  • They were reminiscing.†   (source)
  • Oh, gee, what a night!" reminisced Ratterer.†   (source)
  • Indeed, much to Clyde's disgust and amazement, they now began to reminisce concerning other ventures into this world—of one particular one which seemed to amuse them all greatly, and which seemed to concern some "joint," as they called it, which they had once visited—a place called "Bettina's."†   (source)
  • And then to the sounds of the rushing brook and amid blue-blossoming columbine, he would lean back against the crude wooden bench, cross his arms, tilt his head to one shoulder, and begin to reminisce about it "all."†   (source)
  • Dazed and giddy, he quivered with exhilaration, just as he often did after a colloquy with Naphta and Settembrini, except this time the feeling was incomparably stronger— which may have been how he came to excuse his own inertia in fighting off such attacks of self-narcosis by reminiscing drunkenly about their discussions.†   (source)
  • Thus, for instance, an associate foreman, chancing to reminisce one day concerning a certain girl in his department who had "gotten in trouble" and had been compelled to leave, he had been given the opportunity to inquire what he thought such a girl did in case she could not afford or did not want to have a child.†   (source)
  • They drank healths, told stories, sang songs, 'reminisced', as the old folks say, and had a thoroughly good time.†   (source)
  • Over the port and biscuits, Jamie and Ian reminisced further about their shared boyhood, and their fathers.†   (source)
  • Did you, er, reminisce about old times?†   (source)
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