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  • To Squire's recollection, it was the largest loss on any customer contract Seth was ever involved in.†   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • And at the same time Marilla recollected that she had put the bottle of raspberry cordial down in the cellar instead of in the pantry as she had told Anne.   (source)
    recollected = remembered
  • Then I recollected how he'd done right well in his law practice.   (source)
  • 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
  • She would invoke the past, recall old recollections;   (source)
    recollections = memories from long ago
  • Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard in the afternoon now came crowding upon his recollection.   (source)
  • 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)
  • By his recollection McCandless stayed in the trailer about a month.†   (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)
  • HE WOKE THAT DAY TO AN EMPTY BEDROOM AND THE DISTANT recollection of Almondine jumping off the bed in the gray morning light.†   (source)
  • Nina tried for a moment to recollect this visit with her husband to the Metropol; but then waved a hand as if to say whether or not they had been in the hotel all those years ago was of no consequence.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • She has no recollection of the incident at all.†   (source)
  • Her recollections will serve as a lasting guide in the art of living well.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • During the course of those ten hours, you were relying on him to be truthful with you in his recollection of events, right?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Just hazy recollections of long, adult legs shuffling around our apartment and hands lifting me from my high chair.†   (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)
  • He paused, half-frightened by the recollection yet proud of the sensation he was creating.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Amy had been fond of recollecting stories of men obsessed with her.†   (source)
  • He spent a long time examining Eragon's recollections of the Ra'zac, and then later the Shade.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • So I tried to recollect what I'd seen back where I was before Sweet Home.†   (source)
  • As time passed, the recollections were more pleasant than painful.†   (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)
  • She looks towards the galena, where the two empty chairs facing each other recollect the vanished speakers.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • would rest a moment, recollect myself, find the strength to pull out the handheld I kept in my coat and call for help, or discover some other way to leave here, and if it meant I dragged myself out on the bloody, useless remains of my limbs, I would do that, pain or no pain, or I would die trying.†   (source)
  • I can't recollect.†   (source)
  • "Some of the professors here recollected him as being a scamp," the university said.†   (source)
  • My nose and mouth recollected Momma's, but the set of the eyes, those came from Poppa.†   (source)
  • "I was to Holland once," he said, voice wistful with recollection.†   (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)
  • I don't have any recollection of that at all, sir.†   (source)
  • "Sorry, child, you can't go with me to the matches, not tonight," said Grandma, grabbing me from my happy recollections.†   (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)
  • Personally, I have no recollections from my former lives.†   (source)
  • It was not the old serenity, the pensiveness that was recollection.†   (source)
  • Belatedly, Clary recollected something.†   (source)
  • I didn't have any recollection of calling on the power of Frey.†   (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)
  • Yet I still have no recollection beyond his initial leaving.†   (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)
  • Unlike her recollection of the days immediately following her return to Boston, this memory was still unshakably clear.†   (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)
  • I am sorry, but I don't have the least recollection of what you're telling me.†   (source)
  • My mom's strongest recollection of those moments, which must have been overwhelming for her, was an unexpected and indescribable peace.†   (source)
  • In fact, I was thinking yesterday that I have a vague recollection of you running around in nothing but a diaper.†   (source)
  • He had no recollection of posing for either one, and that frightened him immensely.†   (source)
  • The Dwarf — if he is the lightning-rod man — is mad — and, God willing, won't recollect!†   (source)
  • His recollection of Walt Disney as a young man, briefly mentioned in Grinding It Out, is not entirely flattering.†   (source)
  • It could not really be recollected because it had become a part of him.†   (source)
  • McCormick doesn't have any recollection of speaking to the women.†   (source)
  • A dim recollection of misery and pain touched me.†   (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)
  • Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it.†   (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)
  • I 'ave no recollection o' any-thin' 'cept dese islan's.†   (source)
  • One of my first recollections of you was at a Company inspection in which all the footlockers were open for inspection.†   (source)
  • Far from a model employee, she had never had a job, at least in my recollection, that she actually enjoyed.†   (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)
  • recollection for a moment, sits up, pillow propped against the cinder blocks, and gathers himself.†   (source)
  • Yet my recollection of them was a child's recollection and I must have been to them something wholly unknown.†   (source)
  • "He found that cap in the fifties, to the best of my recollection," Augustus said.†   (source)
  • She clutched the window-sill and stood choking and blinded, fighting with a crowd of daunting recollections and miserable apprehensions.†   (source)
  • Recollect the strength, the resources, and above all the spirit of the British nation, which when roused knows no opposition.†   (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)
  • She seemed to issue from Marvin's story, a recollected figure taking material form.†   (source)
  • We passed houses which I knew well by daylight but couldn't recollect in the swarthy gloom.†   (source)
  • For Aunt J, it would be recollection reborn.†   (source)
  • But by the turn of the century, lynchings were hardly the everyday occurrence that they are often considered in the public 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Most people technically remembered the departed, but the recollections were hazy, as though some fundamental bond had been severed or anesthetized.†   (source)
  • I made a fast recollection of the crime scene.†   (source)
  • The recollections of both Lawford and Mafia members have been dissected thoroughly.†   (source)
  • I recollect the time when young Frodo Baggins was one of the worst young rascals of Buckland.†   (source)
  • To complete this book we have had to rely on a good deal besides my own recollections.†   (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)
  • 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 think He gives us precious recollections so that we may not be parted entirely from those He has given us to love.†   (source)
  • A way to help my recollection of the way things are.†   (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)
  • Last time I saw him, as I recollect.†   (source)
  • I've had no recollection of it but now I know he bought it and put it there.†   (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)
  • It's a painful exercise in incidental recollection.†   (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)
  • Not that I recollect.†   (source)
  • Ser Osmund, what is your recollection of the conversation?†   (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)
  • Celia fears their recollections—the smashed chairs that left splinters in their feet, the obscenities that hung like electric insects in the air.†   (source)
  • None of these "workarounds" affect the accuracy of my recollections or my description of how events unfolded.†   (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)
  • Mother's recollection was off by two years.†   (source)
  • He picked up his drink, took a gulp, and chuckled abruptly at a sudden recollection.†   (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)
  • As she recollects for the first time the full significance of OLUNDE'S presence.†   (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)
  • They reminded him of something, and increasingly he sensed that the recollection was as important as it was elusive.†   (source)
  • Like the rest of us, over the years she had developed extremely keen powers of observation and recollection.†   (source)
  • MARTHA: (Vaguely waving him off going on) ....and ....and sandwiches on Sunday night, and Saturdays ....(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 ....SHIELDS.†   (source)
  • Hard to recollect.†   (source)
  • This his ear, his neck, his elbow seemed to recollect.†   (source)
  • As nearly as I can recollect, this was the sense of his speech on introducing the bill.†   (source)
  • That made me recollect how Birdsong Creek had got its name.†   (source)
  • No recollection of his face?†   (source)
  • Recollections of how I'd thrown Sofia up against that pillar entered my mind.†   (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)
  • What do you recollect?†   (source)
  • Then she, too, recollected.†   (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)
  • The beginning of that Sunday afternoon remains one of the pleasantest blurs amid a lifetime of blurred recollections.†   (source)
  • (He wheels back to BRADY) I recollect a story about Joshua, making the sun stand still†   (source)
  • DYSART: You have no recollection of the first time you noticed a horse?†   (source)
  • MORE (Recollecting) Ah yes, you are to be felicitated.†   (source)
  • Lara, lying ill in bed, filled her leisure with recollections.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I really don't recollect the faintest.†   (source)
  • I can scarcely recollect a single instance of success in anything that I ever undertook.†   (source)
  • Duffy winced in recollection.†   (source)
  • Recollect she hasn't ever had anyone to teach her right.   (source)
  • Well now, I just can't recollect that I ever had.   (source)
  • At the threshold he recollected that he had not paid for it and he turned miserably back.   (source)
    recollected = remembered
  • Marilla was dismayed at finding herself inclined to laugh over the recollection.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • I am at home here, Phoebe, you must recollect, and you are the stranger.   (source)
    recollect = remember
  • "You recollect the way?" inquired the Spirit.   (source)
  • 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
  • My hand was already on the lock of the door before I recollected myself.   (source)
    recollected = remembered
  • For a moment only did I lose recollection; I fell senseless on the ground.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • Yet one duty remained to me, the recollection of which finally triumphed over my selfish despair.   (source)
  • I recollected my threat and resolved that it should be accomplished.   (source)
    recollected = remembered
  • Matthew recollected that he must say what he had come to say without loss of time, lest Marilla return prematurely.   (source)
  • In the night she awakened, with the stillness and the darkness about her, and the recollection of the day came over her like a wave of sorrow.   (source)
    recollection = memory
  • That scene of two years before flashed back into her recollection as vividly as if it had taken place yesterday.   (source)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • I shut my eyes involuntarily and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer.   (source)
  • You doubtless recollect these papers.   (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
  • 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)
    recollection = memory
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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
  • He had a faint recollection of seeing a ladder in here somewhere.†   (source)
  • Langdon tried to gather his recollections of the story.†   (source)
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