How To Use Recollect In A Sentence
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The film features quarrymen actually employed at Dorothea Quarry at the time of filming, some of whom have been identified and their recollections of the filming noted.
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Recollecting the day he saw Napoleon on the street, the poet imagines what must be the tumult of thoughts behind Caesar's moveless mask-the cities, the factories, the armies rising in the conqueror's dream of power.
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At one of those remarkable omnium-gatherum receptions at the Tuileries, of which I have spoken in a former chapter, she heard an American lady, to whom Louis Philippe was talking of his American recollections and of various persons he had known there, say to him, “Oh, sire, they all retain the most lively recollections of your majesty's sojourn among them, and wish nothing more than that you should return among them again!”
What I Remember
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To have shown it to her husband would have been her first impulse; but, besides that he was absent from home, and the matter too delicate to be the subject of correspondence by an indifferent penwoman, Mrs. Butler recollected that he was not possessed of the information necessary to form a judgment upon the occasion; and that, adhering to the rule which she had considered as most advisable, she had best transmit the information immediately to her sister, and leave her to adjust with her husband the mode in which they should avail themselves of it.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
Chapter 1
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Mentally recollecting myself, I took a deep breath and said coolly, ‘Andrew, please leave.’
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The longer the time elapsed, the less likely that the informant has retained freshness of recollection or can offer new information.
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Had A.C. M. recollected that tobacco (_Nicotiana_) is an American plant, he would hardly have asked whether "_tobacco_ is the word in the original" of the tradition mentioned by Sale in his _Preliminary Discourse_, § 5.p. 123. (4to. ed.
Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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This must have been owing to her recollection of the audacious stranger in the neighbouring turret at the Fleur de Lys; but did that discomposure express displeasure?
Quentin Durward
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Recollect always that ambrosia, as food of gods, is the continual restorer of strength; that all food is ambrosial when it nourishes, and that the night is called "ambrosial" because it restores strength to the soul through its peace, as, in the
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later,(Sentence dictionary) were distinctly half-hearted.
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Mr. FITZSIMONS (of Penn.) did not recollect whether he moved or seconded the motion, but if he had, he should not withdraw it on account of the threat of calling the yeas and nays.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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He was particularly perturbed that he had no recollection of even seeing the wine, let alone tasting it.
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Invaded by photographs the toys are decontextualised from childhood, sinister, tragic recollections of a half-forgotten adventure.
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If anything, like a ravening creature, made savage through incarceration, the recollection had grown more vicious with the passage of time.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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His eyes gleam at the recollection.
Times, Sunday Times
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Canada with Miss Macpherson, and the thought most on her mind in recollection of the scene on the "Sardinian" was "_given back_.
God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada
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During one particularly intense session of meditation, the patient had a vivid recollection of being three years old, and suffering a severe double hernial rupture, caused by a weakening of the muscles in the pelvic region.
Meditation as Medicine
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At last recollection, he had a fiancée, but her name resides in the cloudy memory.
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The civic society is appealing for people connected with the colliery to come forward with recollections of life at the pit.
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On France: I was a Francophobe before Francophobia was cool, but I actually had a splendid few days in France, surrounded by helpful strangers who were entirely accommodating to my recollection of 2 years of French, taken 15 years previous.
Matthew Yglesias » The European Bogeyman
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My last recollection was noting 120 mp/h on the air speed indicator, then I ploughed into trees.
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Standing before those who had come to read out their poems, she recollected images about poetry reading sessions.
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He told police after the incident that he had no recollection of what had happened but described his driving as ‘nice and easy’ shortly before the crash.
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American television and cinema to my recollection has always featured sanctimonious public preachifying, to the extent that Eastwood mocks this rift in the American consciousness in “High Plains Drifter.”
Fundamentalist obsession with the Crucifixion (Why are some people obsessed with the Crucifixion?, pt. 2)
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His recollections are more generous, but notably concerned with the moral impression made on Gandhi, rather than the reverse.
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Before I went to high school, I had never heard of this, to the best of my recollection.
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But the story is enlivened by photographs, Evon Zerbetz's striking linocut illustrations, and excerpts from the Marzluffs' journals, which add a certain immediacy to recollections now more two decades old: "We hear the deck and even the trees popping, like shots from a rifle, especially when the temperature drops below 0° F," Colleen writes.
Coming of Age as a Bird of Prey
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She refers to a clear recollection of documentation relating to her annual membership renewal frequently being late in completion.
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Martin recollected his blank-verse tragedy, and sent it instead.
Chapter 43
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This post also nobly defended in the late war, while it brings the affecting recollection of a confidential friend in my military family, associates with the remembrance of the illustrious defence of another fort, in the war of the revolution, by the _friend_ now near me.
Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United State
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In a fit of phrensical heedlessness, I sent a letter to my beloved Miss Howe, without recollecting her private address; and it has fallen into her angry mother’s hands: and so that dear friend perhaps has anew incurred displeasure on my account.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Certainly I think that no one is contemplating chemically "bowdlerizing" positive recollections, the talk seems to center around the artificial expurgation of bad memory, viz. trauma and the like.
Lionel: We Are Our Memories
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I have no distinct recollection of the thing myself, yet there is every reason to believe that I was born on the 15th of October 1765, in that little house standing by itself, not many yards from the eastmost side of the Flesh-Market Gate, Dalkeith.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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In the nighttime version, by contrast, violent white lines cross the image in all directions, obfuscating a washed-out bed of flowers reduced to a symbolic recollection of its previous likeness.
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Neither were they warned that they would quickly lose their traditions, or that recollections would corrode and leave them without memories.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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She laughed and Eddie chuckled at her fond recollections of her mischievous nephew.
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In any event, it accords with your recollection, doesn't it?
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Sounds, that is: forget that you know that philosophy begins with a ph -, and "respell" it FLSF; ignore your recollection that psychology likewise begins with a p -, and render it SKLJ.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
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The secondary pleasures of the imagination derive from recollection of objects no longer actually present.
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Mulla Sadra inherited a variety of theories ranging from Platonic recollection (anamnesis) and division to Peripatetic syllogistics, definitions and axiomatic science.
Mulla Sadra
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Mr. Perrot, whilst accepting that he now had no independent recollection of events, had to an extent been able to refresh his memory from the documents.
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Accordingly, This Week transmitted a 10-minute roll of raw footage of paratroopers recollecting what they said happened, plus a matching roll of equally raw footage from civilians who'd been present.
David Tereshchuk: Struggle Through Decades to Overturn Massacre Lies
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The possibility also exists that the interrogative techniques used by detectives may have improperly influenced Jeffrey's recollection of the events.
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My earliest recollection, when I was about four years old, was being sent out into the garden by my father to try and catch a very rare butterfly, a gynandromorph orange tip, that is one which is half male and half female and which, therefore, only has the orange tip on one wing.
Research in the United Kingdom
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[Page 221] even with respect to the spiritual interests of beloved friends, where certainly acquiescence in disappointment is most difficult (perhaps in this world impossible) even in this case, there is great consolation in recollecting, that the Judge of all the earth will do right.
Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
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Mr Yan recollects that he heard about Miss Brockie when holidaying on the Riviera.
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only a faint recollection
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To the best of my recollection, Stanley played the part of a man who was persuaded by Satan to have a television, one of the first in his street, in his home.
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I had a vague recollection of saying something of that sort, but to think that a patient was being helped by some throwaway remark of mine was quite humbling.
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Neither were they warned that they would quickly lose their traditions, or that recollections would corrode and leave them without memories.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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His rueful recollections shed light on an often-perplexing artistic career, one that has left him looking distinctly battle-weary.
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While the recollections of participants are a lode of information, without corroborating sources, many interviews turn into self-serving pieces.
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She raised by degrees a leaden and inexpressive eye, to the objects that were about her, without having as yet spirit and recollectedness enough to distinguish them.
Imogen A Pastoral Romance
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Yet it is to my best recollection that it was not you I invited to make plans for my upcoming fête, but your dear sister.
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He only looked up once she was gone, recollecting himself for a minute before following them up the stairs.
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Can you shed some light on my hazy recollection?
Times, Sunday Times
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Older people in the locality cannot recollect the roads ever having been in a more deplorable condition.
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Thus also in the sports which have made us happiest and been recollected as folk and individual memories, the particular occasions in which great deeds were done by great heroes, even, in a diminuendo, done by oneself, were then gathered into the collectivity of family or national storytelling.
'A Short History of Celebrity'
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(the possession of correct views, decision and purity of thought and will, the ability of reproducing any sound uttered in the universe, vow of poverty, asceticism, attainment of meditative abstraction of self-control, religious recollectedness, honesty and virtue), and such doctrines.
Buddhism and Buddhists in China
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Colonel Boucher singing the bass of "A few more years shall roll," felt his mind instinctively wandering to the cock-fight the evening before, and depressedly recollecting that a considerable number of years had rolled already.
Queen Lucia
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Of special importance in this initial description is the ˜for us™ and the identification of learning (mathesis) with recollection.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology
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A second defence industry insider who also attended the dinner had a similar recollection.
Times, Sunday Times
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He should not enlarge on this view of the subject: when he saw that he was speaking in the assembly of the most ancient statesmen of our country, he knew that, thoush he barely elanced at the ideas, their own recollections would present them in all their extent.
The debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and all the laws of a public nature; with a copious index; compiled from authentic materials
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Memories can sometimes be pure fantasy, rather than actual recollections.
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To the best of my recollection I've never met Pomeroy or spoken to him.
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The pilot had no recollection of the events leading up to the crash.
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Krishnan fondly recollects the days when the station was busy, before the Salem Junction took away half its work; a time when trains ran from this station to Egmore, Nagarpatnam and Thiruvarur, among other places.
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And sometimes their recollections are not just dodgy but downright misleading.
Times, Sunday Times
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I play the child, and weep at the recollection — for the grief is still fresh that stunned as well as wounded me — yet never did drops of anguish like these bedew the cheeks of infantine innocence — and why should they mine, that never was stained by a blush of guilt?
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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We can recollect or retrospect the nature or character of a mental event just past.
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Bathing then in _Jatismara_, with pure mind and subdued senses, one acquireth, without doubt, the recollections of his former life.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
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She laughed and Eddie chuckled at her fond recollections of her mischievous nephew.
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I have a very vague recollection of being aware of a coach or something alongside the bus.
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These old records should be of great interest to many and spark off many conversations and recollections.
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In the early stages, to the best of my recollection, I heard spoken words the way you hear notes played on a musical instrument.
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His recollection is you had been to some sort of do in the afternoon or early evening, and you were quite merry.
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Ramona spoke with warmth when she recollected the doctor who used to be at the county hospital.
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I know not whether it is from the temper of the people, grave and enthusiastic as it certainly is, or from the recollection of the ancient Catholic opinions, when the funeral rites were always considered as a period of festival to the living; but feasting, good cheer, and even inebriety, were, and are, the frequent accompaniments of a Scottish old-fashioned burial.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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And urged by this recollection, he again scolded and cheered the patient oxen, who for the most part kept on their steady way without any reminder.
The Wide, Wide World
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My recollection is that the procedural history was this - I will stand corrected if I am wrong.
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And, recollecting it, I am struck with the truth, that far more of our deepest thoughts and feelings pass to us through perplexed combinations of _concrete_ objects, pass to us as _involutes_ (if I may coin that word) in compound experiences incapable of being disentangled, than ever reach us _directly_, and in their own abstract shapes.
Autobiographical Sketches
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It is reported by his mother who attended with him that he regularly will fly into a rage without precipitant, has poor recollection of the events and feels remorse and guilt afterwards.
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And she would shrug in recollection, unable to remember anything except that dull relief.
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As far as I recollect, you came late.
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To the best of our recollection, the aircraft was ready to taxi at 17:30.
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Old-timers recollect long rows of bullock carts transporting goods from the warehouses at the Vallakkadavu dockyard.
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a vivid recollection
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He said that to the best of his recollection he received the letter dated 11 January 1999 in the ordinary post.
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There could be no doubt about the features of either; he recollected the exact expression they had worn at different passages of their conversation, and recognised in every line and lineament the Giants of the night.
Master Humphrey's Clock
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It can then become linked to other aspects of being lost, from recollections of hansel and Gretel to a friend's tale of being lost, as well as to real memories of malls. 3.
You Must Remember This
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Stories enow of much the same cast will present themselves to the recollection of such of my readers as have ever dabbled in a species of lore to which I certainly gave more hours, at one period of my life, than
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
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I was so unpleasantly occupied, for some time after her departure, with the knaveries said to be practised among the dense cover of the Windmill Wood, that I did not immediately recollect that we had omitted to ask her any particulars about her guests.
Uncle Silas
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On France: I was a Francophobe before Francophobia was cool, but I actually had a splendid few days in France, surrounded by helpful strangers who were entirely accommodating to my recollection of 2 years of French, taken 15 years previous.
Matthew Yglesias » The European Bogeyman
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A scream from Theresa now told, that she knew Valancourt, whom her imperfect sight, and the duskiness of the place had prevented her from immediately recollecting; but his attention was immediately called from her to the person, whom he saw, falling from a chair near the fire; and, hastening to her assistance, — he perceived, that he was supporting Emily!
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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He came to an abrupt halt, then recollected himself quickly.
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Some of the men now coming over it with the police had travelled it with Wolseley a few years previously and would have vivid recollections of the flies and mud and portages and the need of manufacturing skidways over the bogs, but they would also recall the irrepressible and uproarious spirit in which they used to sing of their additional accomplishments in the rollicking "Jolly Boys" chorus:
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
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And then, recollection of what she had seen thrusting itself on her with horrific clarity, a genuine cry of repulsion.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Anderson intersperses her recollection of treatment and recovery with Bible passages and affirmations.
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His memory was phenomenal and he wrote extensively of his recollections of his own life and times.
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The noise suddenly awoke Helen, and her scattered faculties not immediately recollecting themselves, she felt an instant impression that all had indeed been but a dream; and starting in affright, she exclaimed, – Where am I?
The Scottish Chiefs
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Ramona spoke with warmth when she recollected the doctor who used to be at the county hospital.
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Invaded by photographs the toys are decontextualised from childhood, sinister, tragic recollections of a half-forgotten adventure.
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Gold, — and I thought of asking you the colour of Anne Bullen’s breastknot, which cost the Pope three kingdoms; but I am afraid you are but a novice in such recollections of love and chivalry.
Peveril of the Peak
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I had some vague memory of being asked to share a few thoughts with the group, but no recollection of being asked to speak or preach.
Christianity Today
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I went limp before quickly recollecting myself.
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Can you shed some light on my hazy recollection?
Times, Sunday Times
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You recollect old man Snyder who died on the trail that time he got stomped by a bronc.
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The priest awoke with a start, flailing about in the bed until he recollected where he was and heaved himself across the mattress, in search of breakfast, no doubt.
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A visage would loom up at a party, or a literary reference would be on the tip of my tongue, and my recognition of the first or recollection of the second would dissolve like a ghost at cockcrow.
On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part III
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Neither were they warned that they would quickly lose their traditions, or that recollections would corrode and leave them without memories.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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I have no recollection of my past memories, except periodic flashbacks of my previous life.
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Mr. Clough recollected himself and started with the real lesson.
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Hollywood has never been short of super-patriots, though it is worth recollecting that some of them never fought in a real war.
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These transactions, now recollected but as dreams of the night, were then sad realities; and nothing rescued us from their liberticide effect but the unyielding opposition of those firm spirits who sternly maintained their post, in defiance of terror, until their fellow citizens could be aroused to their own danger, and rally, and rescue the standard of the constitution.
Miscellany
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By this criterion we distinguish our waking from our sleeping hours, we can voluntarily recollect our sleeping ideas, when we are awake, and compare them with our waking ones; but we cannot in our sleep _voluntarily_ recollect our waking ideas at all.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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The recollection cannot diverge, looks like the shadow to remain.
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He had no recollection of overturning a food trolley.
Times, Sunday Times
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His recollections are more striking for being so understated and unburnished.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ramona spoke with warmth when she recollected the doctor who used to be at the county hospital.
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Yet he could not shake from his brain and vision the warm recollection of those bronze slippers, that clinging gown, and all the feminine softness and pliancy of Dede in her pretty
Chapter XX
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Before leaving the school he recollected himself suddenly and returned the borrowed books to the library.
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Roman Polanski's recollections of his own career in a recent public discussion are rounded into essayish form.
GreenCine Daily
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I must have told the boys stories out of my Goldsmith's Greece and Rome, or it would not have been known that I had read them, but I have no recollection now of doing so, while I distinctly remember rehearsing the allegories and fables of the 'Gesta Romanorum', a book which seems to have been in my hands about the same time or a little later.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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There are no indiscretions; what matters are the personal insights and her recollections.
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Recollection picture is piecing together, reminds my you to recede.
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More than that, for the first time in my recollection the party in power hasn't lost a single by-election.
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She had many stories and recollections from days gone by.
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When the images of these perceptions, infixed in the memory, are revisited by recollection, the matter is still a transaction which belongs to the outward man.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
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One minister has seemingly confirmed such a meeting took place but other ministers don't recollect it.
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Quarterly" and elsewhere have been noted; impressions of his manner and appearance at different periods of his life have been recovered from coaeval acquaintances; his friend Hayward's Letters, the numerous allusions in Lord Houghton's Life, Mrs. Crosse's lively chapters in "Red Letter Days of my Life," Lady Gregory's interesting recollections of the Athenaeum Club in Blackwood of
Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake
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With a cold shudder he forced the recollection away and rowed on to town.
A Time of War
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A picture of Christ in the mourning widow's chamber; a "mater dolorosa," in the distracted mother's home; a "kerchief" of the Holy Virgin, spotlessly white, like the glorious spirit, above the bed of olden times, are surely elevating, and honorable presences, the recollections which lead us to them are holy and imperishable, as is the devotion which bows the knee before them.
Debts of Honor
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Naturally - or, rather, unnaturally - this process was articulated on the page as amnesia: "When I came to consider the matter, the truth was that my memory had been fraying at the edges for some time; the grey waters of Lethe undercutting its soft cliffs, so that my bungaloid recollections - which, no matter how tasteless, had the virtue of being owned outright, not mortgaged - tumbled on to the beach below.
The Guardian World News
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Such of us as associate their earliest recollections of the name with the annual cask of wine will read with interest that though the wine, thanks to the oidium or some malady of that sort, is a thing of the past, the spot retains many other charms ample to justify a trip to its shores by a more roundabout way than the slow and direct or costly and circuitous routes laid down by Mr. Benjamin.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
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She has told the tribunal she recollects the meeting and recalls that most of her Cabinet colleagues were there.
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Rather, they should perform the always healing vasana daha tantra [writing down and burning recollections of the past] and confine themselves to karma yoga, such as cleaning in and around the temple and picking flowers for the pujas.
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There are three types of recollection toughened past Mp3 players namely, fulgurate thought, removable or embedded glitter memory and the hard drive.
Article directories Celibataire Urbaine
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The painted retables and carved altarpieces favored the ‘recollection, even the reliving of the moments of the Passion’.
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Within the small tote at his side lies the journal into which he places all of his thoughts and recollections.
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Mr. Campion repeated the name blankly but as recollection came to him his eyes widened.
More Work for the Undertaker
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I found her in vestito di confidenza, in an undress more than wanton, unknown to northern countries, and which I will not amuse myself in describing, although I recollect it perfectly well.
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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But the important side of the phenomenon was, that each plant exactly "recollected" from which parent it had sprung.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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How fondly we recollect these solitary days of pleasure, and hope for their recurrence, and try to plan the circumstances that made them bright; and arrange, and predestinate, and diplomatize with fate for a renewal of the remembered joy.
Lady Audley's Secret
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Recollections occasionally obtruded, -- recollections of marts and galleries and crowded thoroughfares, of evening dress and social functions, of good men and dear women he had known, -- but they were dim memories of a life he had lived long centuries agone, on some other planet.
In a Far Country
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His conversation was such as might have been expected from a man whose fancy was so creative, whose knowledge omnifarious, and whose recollection so unbounded.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
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Many recollected their efforts to reclaim the lands in the 1980s.
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They come to know the sameness of reality who recollect and meditate the unnameable name of the transcendent one, God.
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I sort of had this vague recollection that it was used for munitions, but that was about it.
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She recollected her childhood memory of an encounter with a poisonous snake.
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And sadly, this means I have only my dodgy recollection to double check my account with.
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It is my recollection that the Lorenz equations were derived from the inviscid atmospheric equations using just the interaction of the lowest 3 spectral modes.
Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit
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In her recollection of everyday experiences, there is a questioning of the value of everyday objects and existential experiences.
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And, in the recollection of the father's clumsy attempt to play the adagio from Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata, our sympathy for him is short-circuited by the daughter's memory of her own laughter.
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Corallines much resemble fossil or petrified wood; and we recollect to have received from the landlady of an inn at Portsmouth a small branch of _fossil wood_, which she asserted to be _coral_, and
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827
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Buck has no recollection of allegedly attacking cabin staff, splattering them with yoghurt or trying to leave the plane at 35,000 ft, saying he wanted ‘to go home’.
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More than in other sports, football fans recollect jerseys and numbers as opposed to faces.
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It is known, too, that people often say strange things from confused or indistinct recollections of what has befallen them in a prior state of existence, or from prenotion or intuition of things as yet unknown to others; and although in the sciences we accept nothing as conclusive that is not confirmed by experiment, the vastness or strangeness of the thought, far from attracting ridicule, generally leads to inquiry, experiments, and results.
Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
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How he felt about his sudden elevation is apparent from his recollection of his first day at the team hotel.
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The chromaticised appoggiaturas in the melismata iron out the bitonality of the creaky accompaniment into Phrygian E minor, as the final stanza returns from recollection to the table here and now.
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She took her mind away with a wrench from the recollection of the past to the bright serene contemplation of the hopeful future.
North and South
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Virtually every-one has childhood recollections of the best sticky or cinnamon bun in the world.
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Edda!" repeated Ronald to himself, the name conjuring up a thousand recollections of his far-distant home, for he had there heard it frequently.
Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War
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Batarfi's recollection is corroborated by Jamal Khashoggi, a former acquaintance of bin Laden's who is now an adviser to Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi Ambassador to the United States.
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It belonged to a man in a sort of loose white garment and drawers, with a thin dark-bearded face; and Arthur, recollecting that the Spanish word _nino_ passed current for child in
A Modern Telemachus
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The section is labelled an "anamnesis", a term that goes back to Plato and means a reminiscence or recollection, though it also has some meanings in religion and theosophy, and is even the title of a book by conservative philosopher Eric Voegelin.
Archive 2004-08-01
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Few pass it recollectedly and with full understanding of its larger rhythms and more urgent colors.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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I nodded at recollection of the vulpine-face superintendent of the Sierra Mills.
Chapter 19: Transformation
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Ramona spoke with warmth when she recollected the doctor who used to be at the county hospital.
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Hadley was asked about it during a press conference today and he claims he has almost no recollection of anything that happened during the meeting with Polari:
Think Progress » Hadley’s Non-Denial Denial on Forged Documents
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When she was gone I recollected that I had not read the letter, therefore eagerly took it up to look for her present abode; but how shall I tell you my distraction upon finding she had carefully concealed it, and had written a kind of farewel! her date simply London.
Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
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As my older readers may recollect, a great favourite of the Left in the 1970s was the ‘Tasaday’ - a ‘lost’ primitive tribe in the Philippines that was found to be very gentle and unwarlike.
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I have the dimmest recollection of one night where I was having some sort of contact with a goddess, resulting in hours of intense mind blowing full bodied orgasmic bliss.
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Everybody who has met her has their own special memories of the occasion, and it is those recollections that we would like you to share with us.
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I cannot recollect where we met.
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‘It's getting late, Fred,’ he said, suddenly recollecting himself.
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Wordsworth defined poetry as strong emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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My chief recollection of our journey to Berlin was its commonplaceness.
Greenmantle
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Her face was worn and weather-beaten, but it creased into the recollection of a smile.
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Tim, being (I suppose) out of credit with the cordwainer, fell upon this ingenious expedient to supply the want of shoes, knowing that Mr Birkin, who loves humour, would himself relish the joke upon a little recollection.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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She has happy recollections of childhood life in the area and the freedom to roam before rivers were culverted and open land was developed.
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I have no recollection of shooting a one-point-seven-inch three-hundred-yard group with what the caption identifies as an FN PSR .308 rifle at their firing range and no recollection of posing for a picture with any executives of that company.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
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‘My piping little voice,’ he says with a cackle, tickled by the recollection.
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I have absolutely no recollection of the incident.
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Then did each page as I turned it over bring some fresh recollection of one's unspeakable sense of newness and desolation; the haunting fear of doing something ludicrous; the morbid dread of chaff and of being "greened," which even in my time had, happily, supplanted the old terrors of being tossed in a blanket or roasted at a fire.
Collections and Recollections
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The Law Almanac used to actually contain a list of non-practising barristers, as I recollect.
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The woman said she had only a hazy recollection of events.
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None of these had a map, any recollection of the cave's name, or predictably, even basic speleological Slovak.
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I Remember Star Trek ..." by D.C. Fontana is he recollections of life one the set of Star Trek.
REVIEW: Boarding The Enterprise Edited By David Gerrold and Robert J. Sawyer
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It was the high-flying brent who, knowing how the sensitive girl, made keenly conscious at every turn of her defective training and ingenuous ignorance, had often watched their evening flight with longing gaze, now "honked" dismally at the recollection.
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales
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The next morning, they wake to a scene of carnage, with no recollection of having fallen asleep.
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But while I'm recollecting, head on over to Salon's War Room, where Justin Elli...
Rick Perry Coverage Gets Sexy: Ad Seeks Dirt, Others Press Porn Past
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Whenever mentioning school days, they would recollect the endless hours when they sat in the classroom idly and boringly.
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Neither were they warned that they would quickly lose their traditions, or that recollections would corrode and leave them without memories.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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John deBrun did not recollect his past, and his amaranthine youth reflected that time itself neglected him from its memory even as it left its noticeable mark on everyone else.
Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell – review
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Ultimately, however, Bryan's attempt to overcome sectionalism by restraining public recollection of the war was no match for the tactics of his opponent.
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He had a 400-word soliloquy that was all over the place, from supposed public puzzlement over some of the judge's decisions, a quip about the senator's son going to University of Pennsylvania, followed by the senator's recollection of speaking at Princeton.
Flavia Colgan: Alito Drowning in Words
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Nevertheless, seeing Fillet retire to execute the knight’s commands, he recollected himself so far as to tell the prisoners, there was no occasion to give themselves any farther trouble, for he would release them without bail or mainprise.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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It is the Holy Spirit--'rest for the weary, refreshment for the pining, solace in the midst of woe'--who imparts to the soul an imperturbable poise and a serene calm, the character of recollectedness, the soaring lightness of a full inner freedom.
Finding Peace
