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

Judy said, with a smile of recollective pleasure.

From Seven Little Australians by Turner, Ethel Sybil

It has often been observed, that a recollective and retentive memory are seldom found united.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

"Are you not aware of any class of recollective remarks or inquiries which now and then break forth, and which you invariably smother with a thick blanket of silence?"

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

Mr. Linden turned, with a laughing, recollective glance— "Who speaks slightingly of the midge?—let him have a dose of syrup of poppies!"

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan