Collection

Examples

• Those are the facts of the case, Doctor, and if they are of any use to your collection, I am sure that they are very heartily at your service. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• There's not a fork or a spoon in the collection, said Miss Pross, that I didn't cry over, last night after the box came, till I couldn't see it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I have added to my collection of birds. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There were juvenile letters and petitions from Rebecca, too, in the collection, imploring aid for her father or declaring her own gratitude. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditches, and little gardens, and to present the aspect of a rather dull retirement. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• We have got our case--one of the most remarkable in our collection. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• However, he early began his collection of minerals and observed the relation of the soil and the vegetation to the underlying ro cks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We admired it so much, that I have ventured to write it into Miss Smith's collection. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It consisted of a large collection of bolts and screws which had been _cold-punched_, as well as of elevator and carrier chains, the links of which had been so punched. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He had an immense collection of second-hand books. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I trust that you don't consider your collection closed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I had a very choice collection of ballads, and there was a new stock of gingerbread in the tin box. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Never before was such a collection of the languages of the world made. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That's the whole collection, said the old man, all cooped up together, by my noble and learned brother. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is a curious collection. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The crust of the earth is a vast museum; but the natural collections have been imperfectly made, and only at long intervals of time. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The next year he was recalled to Freiberg as teacher of mineralogy and curator of collections. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Burton's Historical Collections_; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 volumes in all. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• That our collections are imperfect is admitted by every one. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I notice that all travelers supply deficiencies in their collections in the same way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In this age of literature, such collections on a very grand scale are not uncommon. Jane Austen. Emma.
• So few silver forks have been found in collections of old silver that it forces the belief that they were generally made of steel, with bone handles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They have to use those in the public libraries or in private collections. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Large collections of his work are to be found in the Louvre, the H?tel de Cluny, and at Sèvres. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• These string bundles were called _quipus_, but though quipus are still to be found in collections, the art of reading them is altogether lost. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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