I recollect passing one of my sergeants being carried by two of the men on crossed rifles; he pointed out to me speechlessly, his torn and bloodstained shirt and his side terribly lacerated by an explosion.
I recollect that between two stretches of trenches there remains an unexcavated interval, and it is towards that spot I set my crawling course, followed by my two men.
Then I recollect someone mentioned that a cavalryman had been killed earlier in the day by a stray bullet.
I recollect that I was obsessed by a feverish and loquacious gaiety; I scorned my own sad condition and laboured tremendously to prevent myself giving way to the fever running riot in my veins.
Humboldt, if I recollect right, talks in one of his travels of having somewhere encountered a mountain composed of millions of entangled snakes, whose hissing might have equalled that of the transformed legions of Pandemonium.
I do not very well recollect what he said, for I had quite enough to do in thinking about myself; and the Honourable Paul would have conferred a material obligation upon me, if he had talked for an hour longer.
And you will be pleased to recollect that but for yourself, something of the same kind would have appeared in my address.
I recollectyou perfectly, and I have not forgotten our agreement.
How is it possible for me to avoid being moved even to tears, when I recollect all you have done for me ever since I entered this prison?
Well, and my own heart aches even to bursting as I think of your fate and that of your children, while I recollect that I am powerless to help you.
Do you recollect the flatteries of the Baron de Grauen?
Rodolph, yourecollect the high wall about ten steps from here?
I recollect that I read at this time, with the map before me, the first five volumes of the "Histoire des Voyages," and that I was both amused and instructed by the perusal.
All this was done as mere joke, and without anger, but our hero felt it sufficiently to recollect it, and did not again expose himself to it, at least, not to the same extent as before.
I relate the most salient points of this conversation which have remained in my memory; but it would be impossible for me to recollect all that was said in the course of an interview which lasted an hour and a-half at the least.
On one occasion when his verse should have been read, he was unable torecollect it.
I recollect preaching one weekday night (and people would crowd the churches on weekday evenings fifty years ago far more readily than they do now) at some wild place in Lancashire or Yorkshire, I think Lancashire.
He was born eight months and twenty-six days after my stay at Pont Labbe, for I recollect perfectly that we reached Lorient on the fifteenth of August.
I recollect the tutors all As freshly now, if I may say so, As any chapter I recall In Homer or Ovidius Naso.
I recollect the prizes paid For lessons fathomed to the bottom; (Alas that pencil-marks should fade!
This with a wonder when ye do, As easy, and else easier too, Then may ye recollect the grains Of my particular remains, After a thousand lusters hurl'd By ruffling winds about the world.
To him will I go; perhaps he will recollect me, because he has often received my confessions.
Recollect how often thou hast read, 'The decrees of God are unfathomable.
And now, Lettice having enjoyed a happier hour than she had known for many a long day, began torecollect herself, and to think of poor Myra.
The tyranny of a servant is noticed by the wise man, if I recollect right, as one of the most irritating and insupportable of mortal miseries.
You must please to recollect that she stood perfectly alone in the world, and that there was not a human creature that could suffer by this exercise of a sublime and universal charity.
Indeed, if we recollect aright, there are in his works several pieces which he states are after the manner of Hans Sachs.
We must recollect such things, when we would really understand the services of such men as Jeffrey.
You recollect the second siege in 1646, Trubshaw," he observed to another person near him, "when Worcester was invested by Sir William Brereton and Colonel Birch?
I have not seen Bromhall for years," pursued Careless, "and few recollect me.
And I now recollect that, during our conference in the adjoining chamber, a man in the garden approached somewhat near to the open window.
His royal highness was a boy at the time, but I recollecthim perfectly.
I recollect once showing the photograph of the drawing to a lecturer on morphology--a person of, I was going to say, abnormally sane and unimaginative habits of mind.
Whatever were the elements of that flower while it lived are gone, dispersed, you know not whither; you can never discover nor recollect them.
Mad to a certain extent I must have been, for I recollectthat I reined in my horse at the head of the 'rickshaw, and politely wished Mrs. Wessington "good evening.
I try to recollect my trip to Buffalo, the room on the Bowery.
I recollect having heard that five miles constitutes a healthy day's walk.
Most himself-- With the name, I recollect the letters the guard had given me during the interview.
In fact, we remember the pain, but we recollect the pleasure--for the difference between remembrance and recollection is distinct.
Mr. Millingen quotes from Salmuth an account of a man who could pronounce words, though he had forgotten how to write them; and of another, who could onlyrecollect the first syllable of the words he used.
Now, so far so good, only recollect your uncle's on firm ground, while as yet you're nowhere.
I asked you about that talking woman and the office for servants; for I do recollect that, you know.
I recollect your telling me at the time, sharply enough, and rightly enough too, in one sense, that I had ruined the reason of a human being by a foolish experiment, based on an absurd theory.
You may recollect a story I told you the other night about a lady who saw her child's fingers crushed by a window?
First of all, we must recollect the distinction pointed out in the text between effeminacy and gentleness of manners.
Let us recollect the history of those nations since the fall of the Roman empire to the end of the Crusades; never did an assemblage of nations present a combination of more varied elements, and a spectacle of greater events.
If we recollect the negotiations which took place with respect to the noisy affair of the claims of the Cortes of Aragon, we shall see to which side the court of Rome leaned.
In order to form an idea of the turn which things might have taken if some precaution had not been adopted, it is enough to recollect the insurrections of the last Moors in later times.
I know that this vision has been of great advantage to me every time that I recollect it, principally when I have just received communion.
Readers recollect the hurricane in St. Vincent; the hasty removal to a neighbor's house, and the birth of a son there, soon after.
There are still living, wandering about, half blind, half starved, in the neighborhood of the mission sites, old Indians who recollect the mission times in the height of their glory.
Many of the most beautiful things in the museum I did not see, and of many that I did see I recollect nothing, especially of all which I looked at while I was in disgrace with the guide; I might as well not have seen them at all.
I shall alwaysrecollect the morning when I went, too.
It seemed the brave signal flying of a forlorn hope, of a dauntless, besieged soul that would never surrender; and I shall recollect it long after every other picture of the Cowgate scenes has grown dim.
I recollect it forty-five years ago, bright brown, and down to her ankles, and enough of it to roll herself up in.
I recollect seeing in Dresden, in the year 1790, a very handsome woman who was the image of Melulla.
I adjure you to be prudent, but if you should punt and win, recollect that you are only an idiot if at the end you lose.
I probed in one day the real worth of her heart, for she told me, I cannot recollect in reference to what, that I excited her pity.
You will do well to recollect your commission and blood, Davy.
Brother Cap, can you recollect no movement of this unfortunate young man, in the way of his calling, that would seem to denote treachery?
And now I recollect me to have observed that a piece had been cut from that very flag.
You will forget it all, when you come seriously to recollect that I am altogether unsuited to be your wife.
I do not recollect any plausible suitor that is likely to stand in my way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recollect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
