Collections

Examples

• 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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