retrospection

• Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace; for with those gloomy recollections come tender memories of my good old grandmother, like light, fleecy clouds floating over a dark and troubled sea. —  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• In hasty retrospection, her mind swept back to Ben Letts. —  The Secret of the Storm Country
• But to others, friendless, forsaken, and perhaps weary of a life of ill-requited toil, the retrospection is often inexpressibly mournful Alone in her room, at her friend's humble cottage, sat Clemence Graystone, watching for the noiseless incoming of another year. —  Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland
• Homer is the boundary which is insurmountably opposed to our further retrospection, and Homer is already the beginning of perfection in Greek letters. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• You will have satisfaction, retrospection, and work"! —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2

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