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Definition
something remembered from the past; or the act of remembering it
- But in favor of foreign travel I would urge the change of habits, the removal from conditions calling up reminiscences.Part Two (2% in)
- However often he told himself that he was in no wise to blame in it, that recollection, like other humiliating reminiscences of a similar kind, made him twinge and blush.Part Two (28% in)
- There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.Part Two (28% in)
- And I tell you—I did make an offer and was rejected, and Katerina Alexandrovna is nothing now to me but a painful and humiliating reminiscence.Part Two (47% in)
- "Am I right, that you have some reminiscences connected with that song?" said Kitty.Part Two (88% in)
- "Wasn't I dreadfully untidy?" she wondered, but seeing the smile of ecstasy these reminiscences called up, she felt that the impression she had made had been very good.Part Four (45% in)
- The sight of other people, their remarks, his own reminiscences, everything was for him a source of agony.Part Five (59% in)
- After wavering among reminiscences and anecdotes of guns, of dogs, and of former shooting parties, the conversation rested on a topic that interested all of them.Part Six (30% in)
There are no more uses of "reminiscence" in Anna Karenina.
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