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- noun Plural form of
reminiscence .
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Examples
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It consist of 60 years of recipes and reminiscences from the life of a Nebraska farmwife, Alice Mickish Hendrickson.
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He ended up getting two weeks of excellent on-camera reminiscences from the great director.
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No letter home survives, and barely a handful of reminiscences from the people who knew him there.
Review of Emma Larkin's "Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop" 2004
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What comes through in so many of our reminiscences is the theme of time spent on our own or with other kids.
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One hesitates to credit these so - called reminiscences which tell how he absorbed mountains of Greek and immense quantities of political economy and history and sociology and various forms of metaphysics, as every Scotsman is bound to do.
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4 Lyndon Orr
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One hesitates to credit these so - called reminiscences which tell how he absorbed mountains of Greek and immense quantities of political economy and history and sociology and various forms of metaphysics, as every Scotsman is bound to do.
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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His reminiscences were a happy combination of pathos and humor.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912
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He was very fond of recalling reminiscences of our childhood, especially what he characterized as “the great Fulledge railway swindle.”
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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Its occupants looked at every scene with interest, recalling reminiscences of former days at every turn of the road, and looking out eagerly for the chimneys of the village, which lay at the bottom of the valley.
By Berwen Banks Allen Raine 1885
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_Literary Journal_ think when he recalls the reminiscences of those bygone days -- days that were spent in edifying and agreeable association with men and women whose names are inscribed on the roll of Scotland's illustrious sons and daughters.
Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities 1879
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