All 12 Uses
recollect
in
Lost Horizon
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- He gave a Speech Day oration in Greek, I recollect, and was outstandingly first-rate in school theatricals.†
Chpt Prol. *recollect = remember
- I had begun by making simple notes after our various conversations on the ship, so that I shouldn't forget details; later, as certain aspects of the thing began to grip me, I had the urge to do more, to fashion the written and recollected fragments into a single narrative.†
Chpt Prol.recollected = remembered
- You Britishers make jokes about the holdups in Chicago and all that, but I don't recollect any instance of a gunman running off with one of Uncle Sam's aeroplanes.†
Chpt 1recollect = remember
- And do you recollect the last message that came through before we were cut off?†
Chpt 3
- He vaguely recollected surprise at finding the interior spacious, well warmed, and quite clean; but there was no time to do more than notice these qualities, for the Chinese had left his hooded chair and was already leading the way through various antechambers.†
Chpt 3recollected = remembered
- You may recollect that it was remarked yesterday, again by your friend, I believe, that we are bound to have occasional communication with the outside world.†
Chpt 4recollect = remember
- Western Europe, so far as I recollect it, contains an exceptionally large number of females who lack those virtues.†
Chpt 6
- It fitted Baskul and Delhi and London, war-making and empire-building, consulates and trade concessions and dinner parties at Government House; there was a reek of dissolution over all that recollected world, and Barnard's cropper had only, perhaps, been better dramatized than his own.†
Chpt 6recollected = remembered
- It was, you may think, a singularly unpractical accomplishment, but recollect that Perrault had reached a singularly unpractical age.†
Chpt 7recollect = remember
- Conway responded cordially, and afterwards, when he and Chang were left together, commented on the vividness with which the lamas appeared to recollect their pre-Tibetan lives.†
Chpt 9
- Nor were Briac's recollections at an end; his memory continually refreshed him with some little scrap of tune that the composer had thrown off or improvised on some occasion; he took them all down on paper as they came into his head, and some were very delightful fragments.†
Chpt 9recollections = memories
- They all did their best for me there, as you can guess, but they couldn't recollect much, especially as they'd been so busy with a fever epidemic at the time.†
Chpt Epil.recollect = remember
Definitions:
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(1)
(recollect) to remember -- especially experiences from long agoSynonym 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. -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) (historical usage) a thought or to collect thoughts -- often after an interruption -- often gaining composure, awareness, or a perspective