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Definition of Recollecting
1. recollect [v] - See also: recollect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recollecting
Literary usage of Recollecting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"In this dilemma, the girl, recollecting the reputed learning of her master (and,
doubtless, giving me credit for a knowledge of all the languages of the ..."
2. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"They had laden the boats with the corn, and had proceeded a small distance down
the river, when the Colonel, recollecting that he had forgotten to gather ..."
3. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris (1852)
"... refused to fall into the snares which he had once escaped, recollecting how,
when he was summoned and nominated to the bishopric of Winchester, ..."
4. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles, William Rishanger (1852)
"... refused to fall into the snares which he had once escaped, recollecting how,
when he was summoned and nominated to the bishopric of Winchester, ..."
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