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

Thaddeus felt the scene in his own recollective heart.

From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane

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)

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)

He possessed perfect conversational tact, with great powers of wit, humour, and all that felicity of allusion, which an uncommonly recollective memory, acting on stores of varied knowledge, can alone command.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Edgeworth, Maria