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An expression of pain knit the dark face of the monarch, as if his mind were swept by a harrowing recollection.†
Chpt 1.13 *

recollection = memory
So, as the result of long service, the poor wretches became imbruted—patient, spiritless, obedient—creatures of vast muscle and exhausted intellects, who lived upon recollections generally few but dear, and at last lowered into the semi-conscious alchemic state wherein misery turns to habit, and the soul takes on incredible endurance.†
Chpt 3.2

recollections = memories
A flood of tender recollections carried the young man's pride away; tears shone upon his cheeks.†
Chpt 3.3
When the Astroea went down, her deck, it will be recollected, held her own crew, and the crews of the two galleys which had attacked her at the same time, all of whom were ingulfed.†
Chpt 3.5

recollected = remembered
My fathers—may the recollection of them be green forever!†
Chpt 4.13

recollection = memory
The reader who recollects the history of Balthasar as given by himself at the meeting in the desert will understand the effect of Ben-Hur's assertion of disinterestedness upon that worthy.†
Chpt 4.14

recollects = remembers
Allow me first to revive thy recollection.†
Chpt 5.1

recollection = memory
She laughed at the recollection.†
Chpt 5.3
When somewhat recovered, he recollected that a portion of the letter remained unread, and, taking it up, he resumed the reading.†
Chpt 5.5

recollected = remembered
He shuddered at the terrible recollection.†
Chpt 5.8

recollection = memory
Our recollections of them in former days enjoin us to be respectful; their sorrows clothe them with sanctity.†
Chpt 6.2

recollections = memories
She repeated her little games, and retold her stories, and invented new ones, and listened with ever so much pleasure to the songs she would have from Tirzah, while on her own wasting lips the psalms of the singing king and their race served to bring soothing of forgetfulness, and keep alive in them both the recollection of the God who would seem to have abandoned them—the world not more lightly or utterly.†
Chpt 6.2

recollection = memory
He was stirred by recollections of his countrymen, their triumphs and vicissitudes, their history the history of God.†
Chpt 6.3

recollections = memories
Anyhow, sight of her in that place, so endeared by recollection, would be to him a pleasure next to finding the objects of his solicitude.†
Chpt 6.3

recollection = memory
They are such as had happy homes in their youth, no matter how far that may have been back in time—homes which are now the starting-points of all recollection; paradises from which they went forth in tears, and which they would now return to, if they could, as little children; places of laughter and singing, and associations dearer than any or all the triumphs of after-life.†
Chpt 6.4
Only a recollection by men—a glory unsubstantial as moonshine on the brow of the great bust; a story in stone—nothing more.†
Chpt 7.3
If the reader be young, or if he has yet a sympathetic recollection of the romanticisms of his youth, he will relish the pleasure with which Ben-Hur, riding near the camel of the Egyptians, gave a last look at the head of the straggling column almost out of sight on the shimmering plain.†
Chpt 7.4
So with Ben-Hur, much study of possibilities, indulgence of hopes and dreams, influences born of the condition of his country, influences more direct—that of Iras, for example—had made him in the broadest worldly sense ambitious; and as he had given the passion place, allowing it to become a rule, and finally an imperious governor, the resolves and impulses of former days faded imperceptibly out of being, and at last almost out of recollection.†
Chpt 8.2
The power possessing them to this good end was most nearly that of a draught of swift and happy effect; yet it was unlike and superior in that its healing and cleansing were absolute, and not merely a delicious consciousness while in progress, but the planting, growing, and maturing all at once of a recollection so singular and so holy that the simple thought of it should be of itself ever after a formless yet perfect thanksgiving.†
Chpt 8.4
Ben-Hur was not too much stirred by the evident baseness of the woman for recollection.†
Chpt 8.6
Suggestions beget suggestions; so he remembered suddenly his own great indebtedness to the man; the time he himself was in the hands of a Roman guard going, as was supposed, to a death as certain and almost as terrible as this one of the cross; the cooling drink he had at the well by Nazareth, and the divine expression of the face of him who gave it; the later goodness, the miracle of Palm-Sunday; and with these recollections, the thought of his present powerlessness to give back help for help or make return in kind stung him keenly, and he accused himself.†
Chpt 8.9

recollections = memories
His broken body might never be restored; nor was there riddance of the recollection of his sufferings, or recall of the years embittered by them; but suddenly a new life was shown him, with assurance that it was for him—a new life lying just beyond this one—and its name was Paradise.†
Chpt 8.10

recollection = memory
Ben-Hur thought the struggle over; but the fainting soul recollected itself, so that he and those around him caught the other and last words, spoken in a low voice, as if to one listening close by: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit."†
Chpt 8.10

recollected = remembered

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(1) (recollect)
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.
(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

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