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to remember — especially experiences from long ago- I think I recollect that she was away at college that year.
recollect = remember
- I don't recollect her name, but I'd recognize her.
- I told him I didn't recollect my Pa; that I lived here with Granpa and Granma.Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree
- I don't recollect trying to get pregnant that first time.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
- Anne's recollections of the concert were quite happy enough to animate her features and make her rejoice to talk of it.Jane Austen -- Persuasion
- The fact is, I have tended increasingly of late to indulge myself in such recollections.Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
- A painful recollection flashed into his mind.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- I wrote down some of her recollections from her childhood.Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
- Recollections like those merely remind me that he was not deserving of the fate that met him a little under two years later.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- 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.Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
- None of them had done an honest day's work in his recollection.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The speech was much the same each year: recollection of the time of childhood and the period of preparation, the coming responsibilities of adult life, the profound importance of Assignment, the seriousness of training to come.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- How well I recollect the wintry ride!Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- Please recollect the funeral I gave Miss Mattie Lou.Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
- Recollect, or I'll pull your hair!Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- but when I recollect all the uneasiness I occasioned her, and how little I deserve to be forgiven, I am mad with anger.Jane Austen -- Emma
- She would invoke the past, recall old recollections;Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- I do not recollect that we did.Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
- In this occupation she hoped, moreover, to bury some of the recollections of Mansfield, which were too apt to seize her mindJane Austen -- Mansfield Park
recollect = remember
recollect = remember
recollect = remember
recollections = memories
(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)
recollections = memories
(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)
recollection = memory
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
recollection = memory
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
recollections = memories
(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)
recollections = memories
(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)
recollection = memory
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
recollection = memory
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
recollection = memory
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
recollect = remember
recollect = remember — especially experiences from long ago
recollect = remember
recollect = remember
recollections = memories from long ago
(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)
recollect = remember
recollections = memories
(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)
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