recollective

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Mike Nichols' direction and Neil Simon's quip hand are faster than the most jaded playgoer's recollective eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

The recollective power is less cultivated than it ought to be, by the usual modes of education: and this is one reason why so few pupils rise above mediocrity.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

It is a 250meditative poem of recollective tenderness wandering through the past; and no poem written on married love in England is more beautiful.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

At least if you are as good at making work for yourself in some cases as you are in others,' she said with a queer little recollective gleam in her face.

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan

Judy said, with a smile of recollective pleasure.

From Seven Little Australians by Turner, Ethel Sybil