If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Of Ernest Bevin, in a House of Commons debate on1 Julon British recognition of communist China.

You mentioned yournameasif Ishould recogniseit, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Return of Sherlock Holmes,'The Norwood Builder'.

One's prime is elusive.You little girls, when you grow up, must be onthealertto recognise your primeat whatever time of your life it may occur.You must live it to the full.

-Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, ch.1.

   He must have known me had heseen meashe was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Autobiography, ch.1.