All 35 Uses of
recollect
in
Sense and Sensibility
- —but the tears which recollection called forth as they entered the house were soon dried away.†
Chpt 6recollection = memory
- On the contrary, if I have felt any anxiety at all on the subject, it has been in recollecting that he sometimes showed a want of pleasure and readiness in accepting my invitation, when I talked of his coming to Barton.†
Chpt 8recollecting = remembering
- As it was, it required but a slight effort of fancy to connect his emotion with the tender recollection of past regard.†
Chpt 11recollection = memory
- "My dear madam," said Lady Middleton, "recollect what you are saying."†
Chpt 13recollect = remember
- When breakfast was over she walked out by herself, and wandered about the village of Allenham, indulging the recollection of past enjoyment and crying over the present reverse for the chief of the morning.†
Chpt 16recollection = memory
- Mrs. Palmer laughed heartily at the recollection of their astonishment, and every body agreed, two or three times over, that it had been quite an agreeable surprise.†
Chpt 19
- This hint was enough, Lucy recollected herself instantly and replied, "Indeed you are very much mistaken, Lady Middleton; I am only waiting to know whether you can make your party without me, or I should have been at my filigree already.†
Chpt 23recollected = remembered
- To this determination she was the more easily reconciled, by recollecting that Edward Ferrars, by Lucy's account, was not to be in town before February; and that their visit, without any unreasonable abridgement, might be previously finished.†
Chpt 25recollecting = remembering
- She instantly saw that it was not unnoticed by him, that he even observed Marianne as she quitted the room, with such astonishment and concern, as hardly left him the recollection of what civility demanded towards herself.†
Chpt 26recollection = memory
- He heard her with the most earnest attention, but seeming to recollect himself, said no more on the subject, and began directly to speak of his pleasure at seeing them in London, making the usual inquiries about their journey, and the friends they had left behind.†
Chpt 26recollect = remember
- It was a lucky recollection, all her good spirits were restored by it.†
Chpt 27recollection = memory
- "My dear," said she, entering, "I have just recollected that I have some of the finest old Constantia wine in the house that ever was tasted, so I have brought a glass of it for your sister.†
Chpt 30recollected = remembered
- He stopt a moment for recollection, and then, with another sigh, went on.†
Chpt 31recollection = memory
- He looked pleased by this remembrance, and added, "If I am not deceived by the uncertainty, the partiality of tender recollection, there is a very strong resemblance between them, as well in mind as person.†
Chpt 31
- It was THAT which threw this gloom,—even now the recollection of what I suffered—" He could say no more, and rising hastily walked for a few minutes about the room.†
Chpt 31
- Recollecting, soon afterwards, that he was probably dividing Elinor from her sister, he put an end to his visit
Chpt 31 *recollecting = remembering
- Lady Middleton expressed her sense of the affair about once every day, or twice, if the subject occurred very often, by saying, "It is very shocking, indeed!" and by the means of this continual though gentle vent, was able not only to see the Miss Dashwoods from the first without the smallest emotion, but very soon to see them without recollecting a word of the matter;†
Chpt 32
- When they stopped at the door, Mrs. Jennings recollected that there was a lady at the other end of the street on whom she ought to call; and as she had no business at Gray's, it was resolved, that while her young friends transacted their's, she should pay her visit and return for them.†
Chpt 33recollected = remembered
- Recollecting himself, however, he added, "That is, I mean to say—your friends are all truly anxious to see you well settled; Fanny particularly, for she has your interest very much at heart, I assure you.†
Chpt 33recollecting = remembering
- "Why, to be sure," said he, seeming to recollect himself, "people have little, have very little in their power.†
Chpt 33recollect = remember
- They were relieved however, not by her own recollection, but by the good will of Lucy, who believed herself to be inflicting a severe disappointment when she told her that Edward certainly would not be in Harley Street on Tuesday, and even hoped to be carrying the pain still farther by persuading her that he was kept away by the extreme affection for herself, which he could not conceal when they were together.†
Chpt 34recollection = memory
- But Elinor had more to do; and so anxious was she, for his sake and her own, to do it well, that she forced herself, after a moment's recollection, to welcome him, with a look and manner that were almost easy, and almost open; and another struggle, another effort still improved them.†
Chpt 35
- If you only hope to have your assertion contradicted, as I must suppose to be the case, you ought to recollect that I am the last person in the world to do it.†
Chpt 35recollect = remember
- —and when to that is added the recollection, that he might, but for his own folly, within three months have been in the receipt of two thousand, five hundred a-year (for Miss Morton has thirty thousand pounds,) I cannot picture to myself a more wretched condition.†
Chpt 37recollection = memory
- —Whether he had asked her pardon for his intrusion on first coming into the room, he could not recollect; but determining to be on the safe side, he made his apology in form as soon as he could say any thing, after taking a chair.†
Chpt 40recollect = remember
- I suppose, however—on recollection—that the case may probably be THIS.†
Chpt 41recollection = memory
- After a few moments' chat, John Dashwood, recollecting that Fanny was yet uninformed of her sister's being there, quitted the room in quest of her; and Elinor was left to improve her acquaintance with Robert, who, by the gay unconcern, the happy self-complacency of his manner while enjoying so unfair a division of his mother's love and liberality, to the prejudice of his banished brother, earned only by his own dissipated course of life, and that brother's integrity, was confirming her most unfavourable opinion of his head and heart.†
Chpt 41recollecting = remembering
- The openness and heartiness of her manner more than atoned for that want of recollection and elegance which made her often deficient in the forms of politeness; her kindness, recommended by so pretty a face, was engaging; her folly, though evident was not disgusting, because it was not conceited; and Elinor could have forgiven every thing but her laugh.†
Chpt 42recollection = memory
- After a moment's recollection, therefore, concluding that prudence required dispatch, and that her acquiescence would best promote it, she walked silently towards the table, and sat down.†
Chpt 44
- —Whatever your business may be with me, will it be better recollected and explained to-morrow.†
Chpt 44recollected = remembered
- The steadiness of his manner, and the intelligence of his eye as he spoke, convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication, she said, after a moment's recollection, "Mr. Willoughby, you OUGHT to feel, and I certainly DO—that after what has passed—your coming here in this manner, and forcing yourself upon my notice, requires a very particular excuse.†
Chpt 44recollection = memory
- "But, upon my soul, I did NOT know it," he warmly replied; "I did not recollect that I had omitted to give her my direction; and common sense might have told her how to find it out."†
Chpt 44recollect = remember
- Elinor could not hear the declaration, nor witness its proofs without sometimes wondering whether her mother ever recollected Edward.†
Chpt 45recollected = remembered
- As they approached Barton, indeed, and entered on scenes of which every field and every tree brought some peculiar, some painful recollection, she grew silent and thoughtful, and turning away her face from their notice, sat earnestly gazing through the window.†
Chpt 46recollection = memory
- My illness has made me think—It has given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection.†
Chpt 46
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.