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Answer for the clue "Brings back to mind ", 10 letters:
recollects

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The Recollects were a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor , commonly known today as the Franciscans . They used the post-nominal initials O.F.M. Rec. Denoted by their gray habits and pointed hoods, the Recollects took vows of poverty and devoted ...

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vb. (en-third-person singular of: recollect )

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The fraternal love, the delight beaming upon those two beautiful faces, with a slight shade of confusion on that of the sister, the pure joy shining in the midst of their tender caresses, the most eloquent exclamations followed by a still more eloquent silence, their loving looks which seem like flashes of lightning in the midst of a dew of tears, a thought of politeness which brings blushes on her countenance, when she recollects that she has forgotten her duty towards a nobleman whom she sees for the first time, and finally there was my part, not a speaking one, but yet the most important of all.

Querini had married her at last, but I did not think of renewing the acquaintance, for reasons which my reader cannot have forgotten if he recollects our quarrel when I had to dress her as an abbe.

A young monk of the order of the Recollects who called himself Friar Stephano of Belun, and had obtained a free passage from the devout Captain Alban, joined me as we landed and enquired whether I felt sick.