All 19 Uses of
recollect
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Familiar as it stands in the writer's recollection,—for it has been an object of curiosity with him from boyhood, both as a specimen of the best and stateliest architecture of a longpast epoch, and as the scene of events more full of human interest, perhaps, than those of a gray feudal castle,—familiar as it stands, in its rusty old age, it is therefore only the more difficult to imagine the bright novelty with which it first caught the sunshine.†
Chpt 1
- To all appearance, they were a quiet, honest, well-meaning race of people, cherishing no malice against individuals or the public for the wrong which had been done them; or if, at their own fireside, they transmitted from father to child any hostile recollection of the wizard's fate and their lost patrimony, it was never acted upon, nor openly expressed.†
Chpt 1
- As for ornamental articles of furniture, we recollect but two, if such they may be called.†
Chpt 2
- —or else her earnest scowl disturbed his recollection, as it might a more courageous man's.†
Chpt 4
- To find the born and educated lady, on the other hand, we need look no farther than Hepzibah, our forlorn old maid, in her rustling and rusty silks, with her deeply cherished and ridiculous consciousness of long descent, her shadowy claims to princely territory, and, in the way of accomplishment, her recollections, it may be, of having formerly thrummed on a harpsichord, and walked a minuet, and worked an antique tapestry-stitch on her sampler.†
Chpt 5
- It was too slight to seize upon at the instant; yet, as recollected afterwards, seemed to transfigure the whole man.†
Chpt 7
- I am at home here, Phoebe, you must recollect, and you are the stranger.
Chpt 8 *recollect = remember
- In fact, it was sometimes observable that Clifford half wilfully hid from himself the consciousness of being stricken in years, and cherished visions of an earthly future still before him; visions, however, too indistinctly drawn to be followed by disappointment—though, doubtless, by depression—when any casual incident or recollection made him sensible of the withered leaf.†
Chpt 10
- His mind took an apparently sharp impression from it, but lost the recollection of this perambulatory shower, before its next reappearance, as completely as did the street itself, along which the heat so quickly strewed white dust again.†
Chpt 11
- Some stopped to gaze, and perhaps, carried a pleasant recollection of the bubbles onward as far as the street-corner; some looked angrily upward, as if poor Clifford wronged them by setting an image of beauty afloat so near their dusty pathway.†
Chpt 11
- Certain papers belonging to Colonel Pyncheon, as his grandson distinctly recollected, had been spread out on the table.†
Chpt 13
- But that admiring glance (which most other men, perhaps, would have cherished as a sweet recollection all through life) the carpenter never forgave.†
Chpt 13
- You know I do not love this room, in spite of that Claude, with which you try to bring back sunny recollections.†
Chpt 13
- She awoke without the slightest recollection of her visionary experience; but as one losing herself in a momentary reverie, and returning to the consciousness of actual life, in almost as brief an interval as the down-sinking flame of the hearth should quiver again up the chimney.†
Chpt 13
- But, from a pretty distinct recollection of the particulars of our conversation, I am thoroughly convinced that there was truth in what he said.†
Chpt 15
- Even had there been no bitter recollections, nor any hostile interest now at stake between them, the mere natural repugnance of the more sensitive system to the massive, weighty, and unimpressible one, must, in itself, have been disastrous to the former.†
Chpt 16
- There is a certain house within my familiar recollection,—one of those peaked-gable (there are seven of them), projecting-storied edifices, such as you occasionally see in our older towns,—a rusty, crazy, creaky, dry-rotted, dingy, dark, and miserable old dungeon, with an arched window over the porch, and a little shop-door on one side, and a great, melancholy elm before it!†
Chpt 17
- What a misfortune, indeed, should it come too soon, since his reviving consciousness would bring the recollection of the ignominious offence which he had beheld his nephew in the very act of committing!†
Chpt 21
- Whenever I look at it, there is an old dreamy recollection haunting me, but keeping just beyond the grasp of my mind.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(recollect) to remember -- especially experiences from long agoeditor's notes: 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.