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Example sentences for "recalls"

Lexicographically close words:
recalcitrants; recalculated; recall; recalled; recalling; recals; recant; recantation; recantations; recanted
  1. The garment, too much recalls the historic drawers which the outraged decency of the Vatican obliged Pontormo to paint on the figures of Michael Angelo's "Last Judgement" in the Sistine.

  2. Or, rather, there should have been had the youthful writer of those pages put down upon them what he once actually looked upon, as now he recalls them mentally.

  3. Who, in these days when all things go by steam, Recalls the stage-coach with its four-horse team?

  4. In some respects it recalls the Heidelberg brain of Rhamphorhynchus in the apparently transverse subdivision of the optic lobes, but it is unmistakably bird-like, and quite unlike any reptile.

  5. In the species of the genus Pterodactylus, the forward inclination of the quadrate bone recalls the Curlew, Snipe, and other birds.

  6. This rather recalls the relative positions of scapula and coracoid among crocodiles.

  7. One may set to work to recall some piece of history one has been reading, and what one recalls is believed, although it probably does not cause any bodily movement whatever.

  8. This happens, for example, when a place recalls to us some thought we previously had in that place, so that we remember a thought as opposed to the occurrence to which it referred.

  9. It was an eventful week, however, and Miss Nielsen vividly recalls it.

  10. The writer recalls a bit of eighteenth century painting, showing St. Anne holding the Virgin as child.

  11. But how much Borrow delighted in his poets may be seen by his eulogy on Goronwy Owen, which in its pathos recalls Carlyle's similar eulogies over poor German scholars who interested him, Jean Paul Richter and Heyne, for example.

  12. He was while he lived the terror of the Warrior caste, and his name recalls long and fierce struggles between the sacerdotal and military order in which the latter suffered severely at the hands of their implacable enemy.

  13. Yon lightning, as it flashes through The giant cloud of sable hue, Recalls my votaress Sítá pressed Mid struggles to the demon’s breast.

  14. The name of this correspondent recalls a meeting at Florence, described in an early letter (vol.

  15. This slightly improvident thrift recalls the jealous persons who will not suffer the British Museum to burn its rubbish, on the curious principle that what was never worth producing must always be worth preserving.

  16. Cobbett once compared an insignificant public man in an important situation to the linch-pin in the carriage, and my position recalls his very apt figure to my mind.

  17. Allen Thomas *Allen Thomas, 97, was owned by several ranchers of Jefferson and Orange Counties, Texas, but recalls Moise Broussard of Hamshire the best.

  18. I recalls the Buzzard Roost Hotel and some stores was on that square then.

  19. This recalls to mind not the least notable of the functions performed by the great cathedral itself.

  20. He weeps, calls the men by name, recalls them with prayers and supplications; he reminds them of past campaigns and all to no purpose offers his throat to their reluctant hands.

  21. Theodosius recalls the anger he then justly felt and rejoices to witness their discomfiture, proud to have his son for his avenger.

  22. It is with pleasure that one recalls the fact that these men were not Americans, though both possessed estates in Virginia; it is with regret that one is forced to own them as Englishmen.

  23. With a vivid style that recalls the Tolstoy of The Death of Ivan Illitch he shows us old and young wrestling with the destroyer, their souls emptied of all earthly hopes save one.

  24. Hudson, whose Green Mansions recalls the Chateaubriand of Atala, without its hateful note of morbid egotism.

  25. Naumow recalls a character in The Possessed, also the sinister hero of The Synagogue of Satan by the dramatic Polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski.

  26. He colours as he recalls conflicting dates.

  27. When reading him sympathetically one recalls the saying of Maurice Barres: "For an accomplished spirit there is but one dialogue, that between our two egos--the momentary ego that we are and the ideal one toward which we strive.

  28. Down with the new realism--which only recalls to us the bitterness and meanness of our mediocre existence.

  29. If this translation be correct, the throwing down of a part of the food recalls the casting of meal on the ground as an offering to the gods.

  30. It has a scholarly dignity, a magistral richness, a chiaroscuro that at moments recalls Brahms, though Schoenberg has a sensuous melancholy, a delicacy and an Hebraic bitterness that the other has not.

  31. Exclusive of the theme of the scherzo, which recalls a little overmuch the Teutonic banalities of Mahler's symphonies, the quality of the music is, on the whole, grave and poignant and uplifted.

  32. But your patriotism recalls dangerously the restaurant Magyar, the fiddler in the frogged coat.

  33. But, for the most part, the religiosity of your music recalls overmuch the fashionable confessor's.

  34. Oftentimes the score verges perilously on circus-music, recalls the sideshows at county fairs.

  35. Now only he recalls how often he has conversed with his mother about the future life and the possibility of communication after death; he becomes calm, decides to attend the wedding and sleeps soundly till the morning.

  36. The soul recalls with ease all long-forgotten or much-dimmed sensations.

  37. The last part, however, where Annancy and his children are clinging to the rafters, and Death waiting for them below, recalls the story to be found on pp.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recalls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.