Recollections

Examples

• There was that jumble in my thoughts and recollections, that I had lost the clear arrangement of time and distance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They are to guide and organize further observations, recollections, and experiments. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There she would behold the tomb of her parents, and the territory filled with recollections of her father's glory. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I felt a burning glow mount to my face; for bitter and agitating recollections were awakened by the allusion to marriage. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But we must not let the recollections of this good fellow cause us to diverge from the principal history. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Painful recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Mary was in her usual corner, laughing over Mrs. Piozzi's recollections of Johnson, and looked up with the fun still in her face. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But his feelings are not in the least changed or oldened, and his love remains as fresh as a man's recollections of boyhood are. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But the twins are a great tie; and to me, with my recollections, of papa and mama, these transactions are very painful. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• That the thoughts were self-matured, that she had any recollections or speculations about her parents, he could not fancy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The great remembrance by which that time is marked in my mind, seems to have swallowed up all lesser recollections, and to exist alone. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Excuse my dwelling on these melancholy recollections of departed worth; you won't see a man like my uncle every day in the week. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A thousand homely scenes and recollections crowded on him--in which he always saw her good and beautiful. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The certainty of meeting him had not been checked by any of those recollections that might not unreasonably have alarmed her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• To help my memory I kept a book in which I would write up, from time to time, my recollections of all I had read since last posting it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies, does Christmas time awaken! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• From this point her recollections were found to be confused, fragmentary, and difficult to reconcile with any reasonable probability. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These recollections will not do at all. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She was pretty too, if my recollections of her face and person are correct. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Others, who do not look at her with my eyes and my recollections, would probably think her improved. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Her pallet and easel were now thrown aside; did she try to paint, thronging recollections made her hand tremble, her eyes fill with tears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Recollections of happy trysts of lovers, commemorated in old ballads, returned on her mind; she thought such tryst in such scene would be blissful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But the same sentiment that first led me to pourtray scenes replete with tender recollections, now bids me hurry on. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was one of the agreeable recollections of the ball, which she walked about the lawn the next morning to enjoy. Jane Austen. Emma.
• What recollections of boyhood and innocence might have been flitting across his brain? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Why not a bath of pure oblivion, a new birth, without any recollections or blemish of a past life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Her voice rose as the tumult of her recollections pressed upon her mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I watched her keenly: here was a true test of that memory she had boasted; would her recollections now be faithful? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He wanted Jo for his heroine, and called upon his memory to supply him with tender recollections and romantic visions of his love. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Miss Fairlie's recollections of the little scholar at Limmeridge were, however, only of the most vague and general kind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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