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

Judy said, with a smile of recollective pleasure.

From Seven Little Australians by Turner, Ethel Sybil

Mr. Linden turned, with a laughing, recollective glance— "Who speaks slightingly of the midge?—let him have a dose of syrup of poppies!"

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

It is astonishingly swift, alive, and leaping; and it delays, as a stream, with great charm, when 277the emotion of the subject is quiet, recollective, or deep.

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

Faith started with a recollective look and asked what time it was; then sank down again.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan