recollective

Example Sentences

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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

Affectionate children will easily extend their recollective memories in the service of their friends and companions.

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)

Which was said with a little recollective patient sigh.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

Oh! with what a pitying scorn our exact and recollective Frenchwoman used to look down on such an incorrigible scatterbrain! 

From A Walk from London to Fulham by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William)