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
When it is injured, remembrance is impaired; and, on the other hand, an accident has been known to improve the recollective faculties.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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.
Which was said with a little recollective patient sigh.
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan
"I shall never see you, Reuben,"—said he with a very pleasant recollective play of eye and lip,—"without thinking of a friend."
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan
