All 11 Uses of
recollect
in
The Remains of the Day
- But on that particular winter's night I am recollecting the dining room was for some reason out of use, and Lord Darlington was dining with a solitary guest — I believe it was Sir Richard Fox, a colleague from his lordship's Foreign Office days — in the vastness of the banqueting hall.†
Chpt 2m -recollecting = remembering
- My recollection of Mr Lewis is that of a gentleman of generous dimensions with a genial smile that rarely left his face.†
Chpt 2m -recollection = memory
- The German countess then began to speak, but I was at this point, for some reason I do not recollect, obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period.†
Chpt 2m -recollect = remember
- These were — I recollect it clearly — his lordship's actual words and so it is not simply my fantasy that the state of the silver had made a small, but significant contribution towards the easing of relations between Lord Halifax and Herr Ribbentrop that evening.†
Chpt 3m -
- The fact is, I have tended increasingly of late to indulge myself in such recollections.
Chpt 3e - *recollections = memories
- So it was, then, that while speeding along between large open fields, no human being or vehicle apparent for miles, or else steering carefully through marvellous little villages, some no more than a cluster of a few stone cottages, I found myself yet again turning over certain recollections from the past.†
Chpt 4a -
- It is a recollection of standing alone in the back corridor before the closed door of Miss Kenton's parlour; I was not actually facing the door, but standing with my person half turned towards it, transfixed by indecision as to whether or not I should knock; for at that moment, as I recall, I had been struck by the conviction that behind that very door, just a few yards from me, Miss Kenton was in fact crying.†
Chpt 4a -recollection = memory
- It occurs to me that elsewhere in attempting to gather such recollections, I may well have asserted that this memory derived from the minutes immediately after Miss Kenton's receiving news of her aunt's death; that is to say, the occasion when, having left her to be alone with her grief, I realized out in the corridor that I had not offered her my condolences.†
Chpt 4a -recollections = memories
- Miss Kenton, I thought, became visibly happier when I talked about the house and soon we were recollecting together various old memories, frequently laughing over them.†
Chpt 6e -recollecting = remembering
- We had been enjoying some recollection or other concerning the young Mr Cardinal, so that I was then obliged to go on to inform Miss Kenton of the gentleman's being killed in Belgium during the war.†
Chpt 6e -recollection = memory
- I would suppose he had been sitting here next to me for some minutes without my noticing him, so absorbed had I become with my recollections of meeting Miss Kenton two days ago.†
Chpt 6e -recollections = memories
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.