All 20 Uses of
recollect
in
Wuthering Heights
- 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.†
p. 9.2recollect = remember
- 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.†
p. 19.0recollected = remembered
- 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.†
p. 27.3recollection = memory
- I can recollect its chief incidents, as far as she had gone.†
p. 65.4recollect = remember
- 'That Heathcliff — you recollect him, sir — who used to live at Mr. Earnshaw's.'†
p. 68.1
- 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.†
p. 78.4recollected = remembered
- 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.†
p. 88.8recollection = memory
- 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.†
p. 91.2recollect = remember
- There was a start and a troubled gleam of recollection, and a struggle to arrange her ideas.†
p. 114.7recollection = memory
- But the moment he recollected himself enough to notice me watching, he thundered a command for me to go, and I obeyed.†
p. 122.3recollected = remembered
- I can recollect yet how I loved him; and can dimly imagine that I could still be loving him, if — no, no!†
p. 125.5recollect = remember
- When I recollect how happy we were — how happy Catherine was before he came — I'm fit to curse the day.†
p. 132.0
- 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.†
p. 154.2
- 'Oh, I'll ask YOU, uncle,' cried Miss Cathy, recollecting the housekeeper's assertion.†
p. 158.8recollecting = remembering
- Nelly, you recollect meat his age — nay, some years younger.†
p. 159.3recollect = remember
- I, like a fool, didn't recollect that, till I heard her laughing and exclaiming — 'Ellen!†
p. 169.1
- 'You won't go to-morrow, recollect, Miss!'†
p. 176.4
- 'You recollect the two days we agreed to spend in the place and way each thought pleasantest?†
p. 189.7
- 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.†
p. 205.8recollecting = remembering
- Recollect, or I'll pull your hair!
p. 223.3 *recollect = remember
Definition:
to remember -- especially experiences from long ago
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.
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.