I used up all my ambiguous terms over that daub he bought in the Piazza di Spagna -- 'reminiscential' of half a dozen worthless things, 'suggestive,' etc. ❋ Robert Herrick (1903)
"reminiscential" (as Sir Thomas Browne would say) notes, taken on that journey itself. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
Whenever the ghost of "poor dear papa," in a reminiscential form, was made to walk the earth again, I would be avenged for all the quips and jibes which Mawley had formerly selected me to receive! ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Becky's dubious adventure has its climax, it tends towards a conclusion, and the final scene cannot be recalled and summarized in his indirect, reminiscential manner. ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)
"Sam was always up to some mischief," this lady once remarked in later life, when in reminiscential mood. ❋ Archibald Henderson (1920)
In a vein colloquial and reminiscential, not ambitious, let me recall some impressions which these have left upon the mind of one who long ago reached and turned the corner of the Scriptural limitation; who, approaching fourscore, does not yet feel painfully the frost of age beneath the ravage of time's defacing waves. ❋ Unknown (1919)
After a few opening remarks, he dropped into the reminiscential. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Soldierlike — monosyllabic — in his official and business dealings he threw aside all formality and reserve in his social intercourse, delightfully reminiscential, indeed a capital story teller. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Gentiles and Jews, the young deacon's apology, while undoubtedly reminiscential in methods and ideas of Origen and the earlier ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
“Sam was always up to some mischief,” this lady once remarked in later life, when in reminiscential mood. ❋ Henderson, Archibald (1910)
Maybe the tone of the time fosters a reminiscential and intimately personal mood, by driving a man for refuge into the only place where peace can still be found -- into himself. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
He became reminiscential, and singling out a school-child here and there, discoursed of their grandparents, even of their great-grandparents; recalled himself to pay a series of graceful tributes to all who had contributed to make the day a success; and wound up by regretting that he could not stay for the fireworks. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
He became an exciting mystery to a knot of us imaginative young cubs, who sorted up out of the reminiscential rag-bag of high colors and strong contrasts with which the sensational literature that we most affected had plentifully stored our minds, a half-dozen intensely emotional careers for him. ❋ John McElroy (1887)
Soldierlike -- monosyllabic -- in his official and business dealings he threw aside all formality and reserve in his social intercourse, delightfully reminiscential, indeed a capital story teller. ❋ Henry Watterson (1880)
