How To Use Recollection In A Sentence

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.
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
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
The longer the time elapsed, the less likely that the informant has retained freshness of recollection or can offer new information.
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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He was particularly perturbed that he had no recollection of even seeing the wine, let alone tasting it.
Invaded by photographs the toys are decontextualised from childhood, sinister, tragic recollections of a half-forgotten adventure.
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
His eyes gleam at the recollection. Times, Sunday Times
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
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
At last recollection, he had a fiancée, but her name resides in the cloudy memory.
The civic society is appealing for people connected with the colliery to come forward with recollections of life at the pit.
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
My last recollection was noting 120 mp/h on the air speed indicator, then I ploughed into trees.
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.
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)
His recollections are more generous, but notably concerned with the moral impression made on Gandhi, rather than the reverse.
Before I went to high school, I had never heard of this, to the best of my recollection.
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
She refers to a clear recollection of documentation relating to her annual membership renewal frequently being late in completion.
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
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
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
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.
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
She laughed and Eddie chuckled at her fond recollections of her mischievous nephew.
In any event, it accords with your recollection, doesn't it?
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
The secondary pleasures of the imagination derive from recollection of objects no longer actually present.
Mulla Sadra inherited a variety of theories ranging from Platonic recollection (anamnesis) and division to Peripatetic syllogistics, definitions and axiomatic science. Mulla Sadra
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.
The possibility also exists that the interrogative techniques used by detectives may have improperly influenced Jeffrey's recollection of the events.
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
only a faint recollection
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.
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.
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
His rueful recollections shed light on an often-perplexing artistic career, one that has left him looking distinctly battle-weary.
While the recollections of participants are a lode of information, without corroborating sources, many interviews turn into self-serving pieces.
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.
Can you shed some light on my hazy recollection? Times, Sunday Times
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
A second defence industry insider who also attended the dinner had a similar recollection. Times, Sunday Times
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
Memories can sometimes be pure fantasy, rather than actual recollections.
To the best of my recollection I've never met Pomeroy or spoken to him.
The pilot had no recollection of the events leading up to the crash.
And sometimes their recollections are not just dodgy but downright misleading. Times, Sunday Times
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
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
She laughed and Eddie chuckled at her fond recollections of her mischievous nephew.
I have a very vague recollection of being aware of a coach or something alongside the bus.
These old records should be of great interest to many and spark off many conversations and recollections.
In the early stages, to the best of my recollection, I heard spoken words the way you hear notes played on a musical instrument.
His recollection is you had been to some sort of do in the afternoon or early evening, and you were quite merry.
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
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
My recollection is that the procedural history was this - I will stand corrected if I am wrong.
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.
And she would shrug in recollection, unable to remember anything except that dull relief.
To the best of our recollection, the aircraft was ready to taxi at 17:30.
a vivid recollection
He said that to the best of his recollection he received the letter dated 11 January 1999 in the ordinary post.
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
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
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
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
And then, recollection of what she had seen thrusting itself on her with horrific clarity, a genuine cry of repulsion. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
Anderson intersperses her recollection of treatment and recovery with Bible passages and affirmations.
His memory was phenomenal and he wrote extensively of his recollections of his own life and times.
Invaded by photographs the toys are decontextualised from childhood, sinister, tragic recollections of a half-forgotten adventure.
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
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
Can you shed some light on my hazy recollection? Times, Sunday Times
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
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
I have no recollection of my past memories, except periodic flashbacks of my previous life.
The recollection cannot diverge, looks like the shadow to remain.
He had no recollection of overturning a food trolley. Times, Sunday Times
His recollections are more striking for being so understated and unburnished. Times, Sunday Times
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
Roman Polanski's recollections of his own career in a recent public discussion are rounded into essayish form. GreenCine Daily
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)
There are no indiscretions; what matters are the personal insights and her recollections.
Recollection picture is piecing together, reminds my you to recede.
More than that, for the first time in my recollection the party in power hasn't lost a single by-election.
She had many stories and recollections from days gone by.
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
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
With a cold shudder he forced the recollection away and rowed on to town. A Time of War
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
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
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
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.
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
The painted retables and carved altarpieces favored the ‘recollection, even the reliving of the moments of the Passion’.
Within the small tote at his side lies the journal into which he places all of his thoughts and recollections.
Mr. Campion repeated the name blankly but as recollection came to him his eyes widened. More Work for the Undertaker
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
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
I sort of had this vague recollection that it was used for munitions, but that was about it.
And sadly, this means I have only my dodgy recollection to double check my account with.
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
In her recollection of everyday experiences, there is a questioning of the value of everyday objects and existential experiences.
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.
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’.
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
How he felt about his sudden elevation is apparent from his recollection of his first day at the team hotel.
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.
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
Virtually every-one has childhood recollections of the best sticky or cinnamon bun in the world.
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
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.
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
I nodded at recollection of the vulpine-face superintendent of the Sierra Mills. Chapter 19: Transformation
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
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.
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.
My chief recollection of our journey to Berlin was its commonplaceness. Greenmantle
Her face was worn and weather-beaten, but it creased into the recollection of a smile.
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
She has happy recollections of childhood life in the area and the freedom to roam before rivers were culverted and open land was developed.
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
‘My piping little voice,’ he says with a cackle, tickled by the recollection.
I have absolutely no recollection of the incident.
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
The woman said she had only a hazy recollection of events.
None of these had a map, any recollection of the cave's name, or predictably, even basic speleological Slovak.
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
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
The next morning, they wake to a scene of carnage, with no recollection of having fallen asleep.
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
Ultimately, however, Bryan's attempt to overcome sectionalism by restraining public recollection of the war was no match for the tactics of his opponent.
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
He roars with laughter at the recollection as he tucks into shepherd's pie washed down with Chablis.
The light faded at last, and Anne, with a sudden recollection of - the partly-knit stocking which she had "stinted" herself to finish before bed-time, for that staving lad, her brother Harry, exclaimed: "Madge, dear, light the gas and read Mill to me, while I knit for dear life! The Womans Advocate
Cohen, whom they now call Palgrave, [378] a mutation of names which confused my recollections. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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
There are glimpses of at least three pubs and vague recollections of conversations with unidentifiable individuals.
On the contrary, their recollection is embittered by the cruelty, exploitation and official oppression which they recall.
Otherwise our first recollection would doubtless be of the grimly flushed large face of a resolute parent, bending hotly downward in effort to make both ends meet while we wambled and waggled in innocent, maddening sport. Pipefuls
To the best of my recollection, two men were put on the job.
My earliest recollections were of a formidable old woman, dressed in a red petticoat, black blouse and white binneog (headsquare).
All over the UK it seemed, there were people who wanted to share their recollections of how life used to be lived.
Whatever the rights, wrongs or otherwise of that South Atlantic yomp, and without accurate recollection of her many proclamations, I remember she made much of ‘the boys’ fighting out there, or even ‘her boys’. Women and War
She filled the margins with recollections of special memories and funny phrases.
Yet his mind is lucid, his recollections crystal clear. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the other victims reported similar symptoms of nausea, a loss of consciousness and a hazy recollection of what had happened. Times, Sunday Times
Now that I am bereft of it, my fond, my mortified recollection goes back to scenes, which, could I return to them again, would afford me the most exquisite delight -- the antepast of heaven. The African preacher : an authentic narrative,
Antoninus, when the wisdom of thy rule, long unfelt in a world which has been guided by tyrants and voluptuaries, shall soon obliterate recollection of the manner in which thy power was acquired. Count Robert of Paris
I have no recollection of meeting her before.
His deft, side-splitting recollections of mundane British life leave you with the unnerving feeling that this cherubic 28-year-old from Bolton actually grew up in your home as a part of your family.
tyke" of a doggie -- a biography which had so lived in my recollection that when a queer little fluffy dumpling of a puppy was given me I could not help giving it the old familiar name, little knowing how aptly true the name would prove to be in after years. Wild Nature Won By Kindness
They kept me in a medical coma under sedation, so I have no recollection of that time.
The similarities in their recollections vastly outweigh the discrepancies.
The recollection might not be word for word but it's pretty accurate. Times, Sunday Times
Maggie was resting her elbow on the table, leaning her head on her hand and looking at Philip with half-penitent dependent affection, as she said this; while he was returning her gaze with an expression that, to her consciousness, gradually became less vague, became charged with a specific recollection. VII. Philip Re-enters. Book VI—The Great Temptation
I have seen larkiness dawn in them for an instant at some recollection, even when they were dying. Tongues of Conscience
Father, is your wife any better now?" stood out in her later recollection, alone and lonelily startling. This Freedom
My only recollection of it is, that there was great slashing at the banks and aristocrats that ground the faces of the poor; for I was on what our opponents called the hurrah side, and these were the things we talked about. Sheppard Lee
To the best of my recollection the ‘average’ lifespan for marriages in the UK is anywhere between five to seven years.
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
I could give many other illustrations of the narrow scope of this Method of Accidents, though _genuine within that scope_, and how, in _all_ cases, by the Synthetic Method we can find in the facts _to be remembered_ the means of their recollection. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget
A vague recollection of Lady Hester Stanhope's diaries had her turning to scan the long border. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
Of course, some johnny-come-latelies will have absolutely no recollection of that history, at all.
Notwithstanding the lively interest Hawkeye had taken in the fate of his messenger, he received "killdeer" with a satisfaction that, momentarily, drove all other recollections from his mind. The Last of the Mohicans
But in the Bible remembering is more than mental recollection of facts.
Questions arise from the popular accounts based on McClintock's recollections gleaned from interviews, understandably compressed and beclouded after 50 years.
Recollections of bygones are merely threatening to stalk him in the here and now.
There were a ton of celebrities, who dropped what they were doing to come to pay respects, amazing stories and recollections of kindnesses long past.
As Josh writes of Sebald: "Sebald's work first shocked readers with its apparently artless photographs and endless paragraphs, but in recollection the work is nearly limpid, its melancholy polished to a high gleam. Saying Something
Still other patients may experience mixed obsessive recollections with flashbacks and, at times, auditory and visual hallucinations.
This index of logical fallacies is a great source for those inclined to refresh their recollection of the classical rules of argument. Philosophy
He did more than that: He whipped up gales of laughter with his recollection of how as a student (and a former journalist who knew his rights) he sued the old Yorkshire Evening Press for libel.
At first they lightheartedly recall their conjugal experiences, but with the recollection of the suicide of their mutual friend Barbara their thoughts darken into remembrance of Catharine's insanity and her time spent in a Swiss sanitarium. Poor Papa
His designs are shot through with recollection and homage, sentiment and a love of architecture, legacy and vocation.
This, then, is his vivid recollection of what happened. Times, Sunday Times
The cricket writer Mike Marqusee once said that cricket sometimes acts on him the way the tea-cake called a madeleine acted on Marcel Proust, triggering a hidden chain of association, an entryway to what the French novelist called 'a vast structure of recollection '. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
Latter as she sat in the small isolation cell she only had a vague recollection of their conversation.
Some of chemistry's popular tales are probably outright fabrication, the product of wishful thinking, over-embellished recollection, wilful self-aggrandisement or a skewed historical agenda.
I mean, we can only answer your questions to the best of our recollection.
In his account, however, though he inserts it as early as the year 1639 in his Memoir, he inweaves recollections that must span from 1639 to 1646, so as to describe in one passage his uncle's training of boys from the age of ten to that of fifteen or sixteen: -- The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
The end-stopped couplets of ‘Manufacturing’ dissect and examine visual experience, comparing its snapshot moments to the uneasy ongoingness of thought, hearing, and recollection.
Even more, and especially as an exact recollection clears out, the image aestheticizes the remembered event.
My earliest recollection of race is seeing the racial differences between me and some of my family members.
However, having very little memory before the age of thirteen or so, I still have no recollection of it whatsoever.
On the day I have in recollection, Paul Tichlorne had been mooning all morning in my study over a current scientific review.
Of the tea and coffee it might be said, as once it was said of two bad roads "whichever one you take, you will wish you had taken the other;" the beefsteak was a problem of impracticability; and the chickens Fleda could not help thinking, that a well - to-do rooster which she saw flapping his wings in the yard, must, in all probability, be at that very moment endeavouring to account for a sudden breach in his social circle; and if the oysters had been some very fine ladies, they could hardly have retained less recollection of their original circumstances. Queechy, Volume II
I have a vivid recollection of a World Bank staffer in 1992 hectoring the Minister of Agriculture of Albania, waggling her finger in his face.
In response to a vague stirring of something within him -- a thing which might have been the primitive underman yawning and stretching to its awakening -- he had been trying in the window-facing intervals to reconstruct the passing panorama of mountain and plain upon the recollections of his boyhood. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
It is not unusual for former law clerks to have fond recollections of the judge they worked for.
If Mrs. Minchin consulted Mrs. Buller about a cook, that particular cook might be discussed for five minutes, but the rest of a two hours 'visit would probably be devoted to recollections of Aunt Theresa's cooks past and present, Mrs. Minchin's "colored cooks" in Jamaica, and the cooks engaged by the mothers and grandmothers of both ladies. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
Wilson is a natural orator, and the finest passages in the book are elegiac songs of life and wistful recollections of lost habitats, extinct flora and fauna.
In his incomparable recollection of the American "extrication" from Vietnam his word former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger writes that the promise of "Vietnamization" served to confirm Hanoi "in its course of waiting us out. Petraeus and Obama's Uncertain Trumpet
She remembered Errol—finally, and with a little coaxing, oh yes, she remembered Errol—but had no recollection of being a kissogram. Kalooki Nights
I have no recollection of ever having said or written the word "usurper," but if the foo s**ts, wear it. Digg.com: Top News
I have no recollection of meeting her before.
Memories can sometimes be pure fantasy, rather than actual recollections.
She laughed, jollily, at the recollection, and pressed a cheesecake on Toni with a heartiness there was no resisting. The Making of a Soul

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