All 12 Uses of
recollect
in
Lord Jim
- One voyage, I recollect, I tipped him a live sheep out of the remnant of my sea-stock: not that I wanted him to do anything for me—he couldn't, you know—but because his childlike belief in the sacred right to perquisites quite touched my heart.†
Chpt 5
- I really don't recollect now what decent little port on the shores of the Baltic was defiled by being the nest of that precious bird.†
Chpt 5
- 'Of course the recollection of my last conversation with Brierly is tinged with the knowledge of his end that followed so close upon it.†
Chpt 6 *
- 'I was afraid he would enlarge upon the grievance, for though he didn't stir a limb or twitch a feature, he made one aware how much he was irritated by the recollection.†
Chpt 12
- One of the hands told me, hiding a smile at the recollection, "It was for all the world, sir, like a naughty youngster fighting with his mother."†
Chpt 13
- Most of the people there didn't hear what was said, and those who had heard seemed to have had all precise recollection scared out of them by the appalling nature of the consequences that immediately ensued.†
Chpt 19
- The angry disgust at the recollection, the pride of his fluency, to which he turned an attentive ear, struggled for the possession of his broad simple face.†
Chpt 23
- He will have it that he did actually go to sleep; that he slept—perhaps for a minute, perhaps for twenty seconds, or only for one second, but he recollects distinctly the violent convulsive start of awakening.†
Chpt 25
- Every pretty smile was succeeded swiftly by a look of silent, repressed anxiety, as if put to flight by the recollection of some abiding danger.†
Chpt 29
- His ears burned at the bare recollection.†
Chpt 30
- He laughed while narrating this part at the recollection of his polite alacrity.†
Chpt 31
- As a matter of fact—he told me, writhing with rage at the recollection of his helplessness—it made no difference.†
Chpt 39
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.