Collecting

Examples

• Then, collecting himself, he added in his usual tone, And what may it be your pleasure to want at so early an hour with the poor Jew? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But if carbon and zinc are used, a current is again produced, the zinc dissolving away as before, and bubbles collecting on the carbon plate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The fancy runs from one end of the universe to the other in collecting those ideas, which belong to any subject. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Opening the grenades under water and collecting the gas that escaped it was found that the average amount of carbon dioxide contained was about one cubic inch per grenade. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Sir, said Mr. Helstone, collecting all his dignity--sir, the great knowledge of man is to know himself, and the bourne whither his own steps tend. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Thus we say that a man's interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or archaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I had expected some extravagant proposition, and remained silent awhile, collecting my thoughts that I might the better combat her fanciful scheme. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Among the obstacles in my way, there is the necessity of collecting again all the evidence which was discovered at the time, and more if possible. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was merely collecting himself to speak very plainly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But constancy, chastity, good sense, and good nature, were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Think of their all meeting me with it, on my collecting days, here and there and everywhere. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When first collecting in the fresh waters of Brazil, I well remember feeling much surprise at the similarity of the fresh-water insects, shells, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• A force was also collecting on my right, at Jackson, the point where all the railroads communicating with Vicksburg connect. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Beth, who was collecting the scattered Author cards, looked up and said, in her shy yet friendly way, I'm afraid you are tired. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He th ought that by collecting all facts that bore on the variation of plants and animals, wild or domesticated, light might be thrown on the whole subjec t. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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