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Definition
to remember — especially experiences from long ago
- Recollect, or I'll pull your hair!Chapter 32 (22% in)
recollect = remember
- But he seemed to recollect himself presently, and smothered the storm in a brutal curse, muttered on my behalf: which, however, I took care not to notice.Chapter 2 (53% in)
- Scarcely were these words uttered when I recollected the association of Heathcliff's with Catherine's name in the book, which had completely slipped from my memory, till thus awakened.Chapter 3 (63% in)
- I was vain of his commendations, and softened towards the being by whose means I earned them, and thus Hindley lost his last ally: still I couldn't dote on Heathcliff, and I wondered often what my master saw to admire so much in the sullen boy; who never, to my recollection, repaid his indulgence by any sign of gratitude.Chapter 4 (82% in)
- I can recollect its chief incidents, as far as she had gone.Chapter 10 (3% in)
- 'That Heathcliff — you recollect him, sir — who used to live at Mr. Earnshaw's.'Chapter 10 (22% in)
- I've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people talked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad habits, and, hopeless of benefiting him, have flinched from re-entering the dismal house, doubting if I could bear to be taken at my word.Chapter 11 (1% in)
- Both the expressions flitting over her face, and the changes of her moods, began to alarm me terribly; and brought to my recollection her former illness, and the doctor's injunction that she should not be crossed.Chapter 12 (17% in)
- I thought as I lay there, with my head against that table leg, and my eyes dimly discerning the grey square of the window, that I was enclosed in the oak-panelled bed at home; and my heart ached with some great grief which, just waking, I could not recollect.Chapter 12 (39% in)
- There was a start and a troubled gleam of recollection, and a struggle to arrange her ideas.Chapter 15 (26% in)
- But the moment he recollected himself enough to notice me watching, he thundered a command for me to go, and I obeyed.Chapter 16 (77% in)
- I can recollect yet how I loved him; and can dimly imagine that I could still be loving him, if — no, no!Chapter 17 (17% in)
- When I recollect how happy we were — how happy Catherine was before he came — I'm fit to curse the day."Chapter 17 (63% in)
- That housekeeper left, if I recollect rightly, two years after he came; and another, whom I did not know, was her successor; she lives there still.Chapter 21 (9% in)
- 'Oh, I'll ask YOU, uncle,' cried Miss Cathy, recollecting the housekeeper's assertion.Chapter 21 (42% in)
- Nelly, you recollect meat his age — nay, some years younger.Chapter 21 (46% in)
- I, like a fool, didn't recollect that, till I heard her laughing and exclaiming — 'Ellen! you'll have to fetch the key, or else I must run round to the porter's lodge.Chapter 22 (52% in)
- 'You won't go to-morrow, recollect, Miss!'Chapter 23 (77% in)
- 'You recollect the two days we agreed to spend in the place and way each thought pleasantest?Chapter 26 (25% in)
- 'Oh! it is Green,' I said, recollecting myself — 'only Green,' and I went on, intending to send somebody else to open it; but the knock was repeated: not loud, and still importunately.Chapter 28 (74% in)
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