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

Faith started with a recollective look and asked what time it was; then sank down again.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

The place is as pretty as ever, and it was impossible for the most hospitable luxury to do more for me, and with the most minute recollective attention to all my olden-times habits and ways.

From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

The recollective power is less cultivated than it ought to be, by the usual modes of education: and this is one reason why so few pupils rise above mediocrity.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

Judy said, with a smile of recollective pleasure.

From Seven Little Australians by Turner, Ethel Sybil