All 12 Uses of
recollect
in
Lost Horizon
- He gave a Speech Day oration in Greek, I recollect, and was outstandingly first-rate in school theatricals.†
Chpt Pro. *
- 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 Pro.
- 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 1
- 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 3
- 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 4
- 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 6
- It was, you may think, a singularly unpractical accomplishment, but recollect that Perrault had reached a singularly unpractical age.†
Chpt 7
- 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 9
- 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.
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.