re-collect

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And why didn’t the refs call a foul when Bryce Brown grabbed Jerome’s jersey as Jerome was trying to re-collect the ball just before he double-dribbled?

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2019

When his household cares obliged the ministrant to leave her room, Nydia began to re-collect her thoughts.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It only remains for us to re-collect them all, to seize their relations, and thus to find again, but more precise and more clear, the primitive unity that served us as a point of departure.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

But his courage failed him; he made a sudden stop, as if willing to re-collect his reason, and asked for some sacred place where he might reassume his courage, and meet death with becoming fortitude.

From Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by Pinnock, William

Trouble and disquiet serve rather to distract the mind than to re-collect it.

From The Practice of the Presence of God by Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother