recollect
/ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/ verb C2- To compose oneself.
He/she/it recollects · Past recollected · Past participle recollected · -ing form recollecting
Verb forms
- Base form
- recollect
- He/she/it
- recollects
- Past
- recollected
- Past participle
- recollected
- -ing form
- recollecting
From the library
“Now I recollect,” said the afflicted old father; “my poor boy told me yesterday he had got a small case of coffee, and another of tobacco for me!”
“With being an agent of the Bonapartist faction!” Many of our readers may be able to recollect how formidable such an accusation became in the period at which our story is dated.
He was, if I recollect, arrested in a tavern, in company with a great many others.” Then he added, “Monsieur, you may rest assured I shall perform my duty impartially, and that if he be innocent you shall not have appealed to me in vain; should he, however, be guilty, in this present epoch, impunity would furnish a dangerous example, and I must do my duty.”
“Well now, I just can’t recollect that I ever had.”
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