Collected

Examples

• In consequence of this law, when Memphis was occupied the provost-marshal had forcibly collected all the evidences he could obtain of such debts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I collected, too, quite a large scrap-book of it, but unfortunately have lost it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These Italians were also very mannered and matched manners with the two we had collected before. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I was very much pleased with what I collected to have been your behaviour on the occasion; it shewed a discretion highly to be commended. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• How cool and collected you look when everybody else is frightened! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The rest of the party were now returning, and all were soon collected. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They threw themselves into committees in the most impassioned manner and collected subscriptions with a vehemence quite extraordinary. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Professor Dilth ey has collected many other records of the hallucinatory clearness of the visual imagery of literary artists. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Quite a train was collected during the 30th, and a motley train it was. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• All along the line there were crowds of persons collected to witness the ceremony. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• And then she collected a lot of money from her friends--Mrs. Bry gave us five hundred, and Mr. Rosedale a thousand. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He collected a large number of specimens, which were subsequently sent to Orange for Edison's examination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He collected vast numbers of manuscripts, had strange animals brought from distant land s to Alexandria, and otherwise promoted scientific research. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I quickly collected some branches; but they were wet, and would not burn. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Ever touched the broom, or spread the mats, or rolled them up, or found the draughts, or collected the dominoes, or put my hand to any kind of work? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The woman's passionate exclamations collected a crowd around her, and the trader briefly explained to them the cause of the agitation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• By-and-by, after an anxious search, his father found him sitting in a nest he had made in the barn, filled with goose-eggs and hens' eggs he had collected, trying to hatch them out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Dejah Thoris and I with the other members of the royal family had collected in a sunken garden within an inner courtyard of the palace. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The inhabitants of a town being collected into one place, can easily combine together. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A third committee devoted itself to agriculture, and in the Society's museum were collected products and curiositi es of the shop, mine, sea, etc. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The gum is collected by chopping through the bark with a hatchet and placing under each series of cuts a little clay cup formed by the hands of the workman. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The night had been very wet: large pools of water had collected in the road: and the kennels were overflowing. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• In Brazil the juice is collected in clay vessels and smoked and dried in a smouldering fire of palm nuts, which gives the material its dark brown appearance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A number of receptacles containing charges of calcium carbide are made to successively receive a regulated quantity of water, the gas being collected in a rising and falling holder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When you have collected some fresh evidence, come to me again. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I said Good-bye, Miss Pocket; but she merely stared, and did not seem collected enough to know that I had spoken. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• If only a few thousand were printed, these signatures could be collected together by hand, and then fed into the wire-stitching machine, also by hand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The film of rubber that forms on the inside of the cup and the bits of rubber remaining on the tree are collected and sold as coarse Para. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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