All 8 Uses of
recollect
in
The Good Soldier
- PART III I THE odd thing is that what sticks out in my recollection of the rest of that evening was Leonora's saying: "Of course you might marry her," and, when I asked whom, she answered: "The girl."†
Part 3recollection = memory
- I mention these last three because my recollection of that night is only the sort of pinkish effulgence from the electric-lamps in the hotel lounge.†
Part 3 *
- But I have given you absolutely the whole of my recollection of that evening, as it is the whole of my recollection of the succeeding three or four days.†
Part 3
- But I have given you absolutely the whole of my recollection of that evening, as it is the whole of my recollection of the succeeding three or four days.†
Part 3
- Anyhow, I suppose that my money will go to him when I die—I like the recollection of his friendly image and of the nice girl he was engaged to.†
Part 3
- But, in the midst of that tumult—he says that it came suddenly into his head whilst he was in the witness-box—in the midst of those august ceremonies of the law there came suddenly into his mind the recollection of the softness of the girl's body as he had pressed her to him.†
Part 3
- Edward recollected this, immediately after he had made the offer, and said quickly: "Of course I mean that you should stable the horse at Branshaw until you have time to turn round or want to sell him and get a better."†
Part 4recollected = remembered
- She had a vague recollection that love was said to render a hopeless lover's eyes hopeless; she remembered a character in a book who was said to have taken to drink through love; she remembered that lovers' existences were said to be punctuated with heavy sighs.†
Part 4recollection = memory
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.