5 uses
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Definition
to remember — especially experiences from long ago
- "He found that cap in the fifties, to the best of my recollection," Augustus said.Chapters 5-6 (57% in)
- " Deets sat around thinking for a day or two, but he could not remember ever having another name, and Call's recollection bore him out.Chapters 7-8 (57% in)
- He had lived with men his whole life, rangering and working; during his whole adult life he couldn't recollect spending ten minutes alone with a woman.Chapters 11-12 (68% in)
- Right after the marriage she had been seen in the stores some, spending July's money, but he couldn't recollect having seen her in a store in recent days.Chapters 28-29 (34% in)
- "There was a woman here during that fight, I recollect," he said.Chapters 60-61 (41% in)
There are no more uses of "recollect" in Lonesome Dove.
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