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The actual soul with its sensation and its concrete self-feeling turned into habit, has implicitly realised the 'ideality' of its qualities; in this externality it has recollected and inwardised itself, and is infinite self-relation.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Ney listened: "Is this Davoust at last," he exclaimed, "who has recollected me?" and he listened a second time.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

My father has recollected an engagement that takes our whole family away on Monday.

From Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane

She will tell you why she ought to recollect his name, how she always has recollected his name till this precise moment. 

From Tea-Table Talk by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

He has recollected himself, he was going for the doctor for poor Nancy, and this is the stream he was looking for.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon