| Cast as the recollected observations of a Sardinian who had long ago traveled across Europe and Great Britain, it is, in effect, a disquisition on national character. |
| A gust of wind passed by them before Nick recollected himself and started to gaze outward towards the scenery below them. |
| She recollected her childhood memory of an encounter with a poisonous snake. |
| Even the breakup of the McClure's staff in 1906, which her diary reveals to have all but destroyed her, is recollected in tranquility. |
| She did not remember taking off a pair of bloodstained rubber gloves found in the bedroom, but recollected washing her hands in the bathroom. |
| The written word persuasively conveys the authentic ring of reliable authority in a way the recollected spoken word does not. |
