Use collected in a sentence
Sentences ending with collected
- A young friend whose acquaintance I had made in Rome asked me one day to come to his rooms and look at a cabinet of gems and medals which he had collected. [6]
- The first officer was excited, the lascars were dazed, the stewards were hurried without being confident; only Hungerford, Stone, and the gunner were collected. [11]
- When he reached the great market-place in the quarter known as Ta-anch he was forced to bring his steed to a quieter pace, for in front of the Curia--the senatehouse--an immense gathering of people had collected. [10]
- If the city of Hampton was emblematic of our modern world in which haphazardness has replaced order, Fillmore Street may be likened to a back eddy of the muddy and troubled waters, in which all sorts of flotsam and jetsam had collected. [9]
- There were horses in plenty at the post-house; he had chosen a strong one and had got to the spot before the crowd had collected. [10]
- Has the money for the new bell been collected? [10]
- The initiated, the fathers, the temple-servants, and the scholars streamed in, and in a few minutes were all collected. [10]
- He had been dead seven years before his plays were collected. [4]
- He was pale, but collected. [11]
- The corps, which bore the name of the Sungod Ra, advanced from the south towards Schabatun, [Kadesh was the chief city of the Cheta, i. e. Aramaans, round which the united forces of all the peoples of western Asia had collected. [10]
Short sentences using collected
- A crowd collected there, too. [9]
Sentences containing collected two or more times
- Emerson's collected "Poems" constitute the ninth volume of the recent collected edition of his works. [6]
More example sentences with the word collected in them
- In the same year these last poems with many others were collected in a small volume, entitled "May-Day, and Other Pieces. [6]
- Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
- We are overpowered with a mass of undigested intelligence, collected for the mast part without regard to value. [4]
- One poor devil who had waddled (failed) in Change Alley had collected under his mattress the letters of Junius, then selling the Public Advertiser as few publications had ever sold before. [9]
- All the people who had collected round the priest, broke out into a far-sounding cry of woe, in which he himself and Rui's widow vehemently joined. [10]
- A poor rope-dancer, who had been robbed by a thief in the crowd, of the little tin box containing he pennies he had collected, was running about, ringing his hands and looking for the watchman. [10]
- When, a little while after the establishment of the new magazine, the "Saturday Club" gathered about the long table at "Parker's," such a representation of all that was best in American literature had never been collected within so small a compass. [6]
- He collected himself, went towards his couch and drew the curtain which concealed the niche at the head of the bed. [10]
- There wasn't any way to collect that ten cents, and he reckon'd the gov'ment would hold him responsible for it and maybe turn him out besides, when they found he hadn't collected it. [5]
- The country newspapers, watered by providential rains, began to put forth tender little editorial shoots, which Mr. Judah B. Tallant presently collected and presented in a charming bouquet in the Morning Era. [9]
- But Jean Jacques was unconscious of everything save a debt to be collected for a woman he had loved, a compensation which must be taken in flesh and blood. [11]
- The murdered man was Ulrich Vorchtel, the oldest son of the wealthy Berthold Vorchel, who collected the imperial taxes. [10]
- Although our author was somewhat far advanced, and Mr. Prescott had not yet collected his materials, Irving renounced the glorious theme in such a manner that Prescott never suspected the pain and loss it cost him, nor the full extent of his own obligation. [4]
- The strange voice was saying: "I have collected five thousand dollars-- all that can be got in the two counties. [11]
- So in one vast space--say a third of a mile wide and two miles long--were collected two thousand gondolas, and every one of them had from two to ten, twenty and even thirty colored lanterns suspended about it, and from four to a dozen occupants. [5]
- She was a true Athenian, she had discovered some new thing, she valued discoveries more than all else in life, she collected them, though she never used them save to discuss them with intellectuals at her dinner parties. [9]
- His heart began to throb; the artist's love of his art had awaked within him; he had collected his wits, and explained to the matron that to paint in the darkness was impossible. [10]
- Accordingly, I applied to Mr. Cupples, well known for his success with this breed, who has weighed and measured many of his own dogs, and who has with great kindness collected for me the following facts from various sources. [1]
- It was impossible to give battle before information had been collected, the wounded gathered in, the supplies of ammunition replenished, the slain reckoned up, new officers appointed to replace those who had been killed, and before the men had had food and sleep. [2]
- He understands how to attract poets and artists of all kinds to Athens, he has had the poems of Homer put into writing, and the prophecies of Musaeus collected by Onomakritus. [10]
- They drove up to a door round which a crowd of persons were collected, and there stopped. [12]
- It was not till nearly evening that the officer commanding the escort collected his men and with shouts and quarrels forced his way in among the baggage trains, and the prisoners, hemmed in on all sides, emerged onto the Kaluga road. [2]
- In this dense throng and deafening tumult it was scarcely possible to recover that collected calm which she had found in the morning at her mother's tomb. [10]
- Alexander rejoiced at this, and only expressed his regret that most of the epigrams he had collected turned on the death of Caesar's brother Geta. [10]
- Some bags of this they carried away, and also collected a good amount of furs of otters, bears, martens, and minks. [4]
- Orion looked at them in dumb indecision; but he quickly collected himself, and said in a tone of modest but urgent entreaty: "Nay; hear me and do not reject my petition. [10]
- The number of their collected enemies was great, but Hermas had hopes of outstripping them, for his prisoner revealed to him the spot where their boats, drawn up on shore, lay hidden under sand and stones. [10]
- In spite of the terrific heat Damia would not be persuaded to come down from the turret-room where she had collected all the instruments, manuals and formulas used by astrologers and Magians. [10]
- But after breakfast the sun came out, and a crowd collected around the tavern, although the air was chill and the muck deep in the street. [9]
- But, again, by the subtreasury scheme the revenue is to be collected in specie. [7]
- They were at the same time obliged to exercise the greatest caution, and collected their forces of young men in the valleys that lay hidden in the long range of coast-hills. [10]
- Quijada willingly granted the requested delay, and, before bidding him farewell, Wolf availed himself of the opportunity to deliver into his hands the papers collected by his adopted father, which he had on his person. [10]
- The taxes of the region wherein Domremy lies have been collected sixty-three times since then, and all the villages of that region have paid except that one--Domremy. [5]
- An examination into the process of collecting shows what sort of news we are likely to get, and that nine-tenths of that printed is collected without much intelligence exercised in selection. [4]
- Paulus collected all the overflow of the old man's heart in one sentence, and called out his blessings through his two hands as a speaking-trumpet, after his friend's son as he departed to battle. [10]
- We collected within the limits of this bit of earth everything which can delight the senses; not a single one is omitted in this narrow space, whose crowded maze of pleasures fairly impede freedom of movement. [10]
- He went over the ground again and again until he had collected all the parts of the sums and all the parts of the sentences--and all in disorder, of course, not in their proper rotation. [5]
- He caught up the glass of champagne and dashed it upon the fine prayer-rug which Shelek Pasha had, with a kourbash, collected for taxes from a Greek merchant back from Tiflis--the rug worth five hundred English pounds, the taxes but twenty Turkish pounds. [11]
- I have collected the following cases. [1]
- Edward picked up the Banner and pretended to read it, while Janet collected the salt and put it back into the shaker. [9]
- A crowd like that I had seen on the dock had collected there, Mr. Swain and Mr. Hammond and other barristers holding them in check. [9]
- I repeat, then, that by the subtreasury the revenue is to be collected in specie. [7]
- Its coming was telegraphed from station to station, and crowds everywhere collected to see it. [4]
- I picked up such members of the family as fell in my vicinity, and subordinates of my corps collected the rest. [5]
- In judging of such exposition and declaration, one would wish entirely to put aside the sort of instinctive horror they awaken, and to consider them in an impartial spirit and collected mood. [14]
- There is a subtle connection between such gatherings and the gathering of what are called the elements,--a sympathetic connection, which we shall, no doubt, one day understand, when we have collected facts enough on the subject to make a comprehensive generalization, after Mr. Buckle's method. [4]
- And Castor was strong too while Alexander tried to keep him off with his right hand, holding on to Agatha with his left, the shouts of the deaconess and her accomplice soon collected a crowd. [10]
- In the public square I find a gaping and wondering crowd of rustics collected about one of the mountebanks whose trade is not peculiar to any country. [4]
- As the news spread that the troops were to attack the Serapeum early next morning, thousands of spectators collected, and filled the temple itself in breathless anxiety to watch the issue of the struggle. [10]
- She had for some minutes heard a murmuring sound which reached her from an inner chamber; but it was only by degrees that she collected herself so far as to listen more closely, to ascertain whence it came and what it could mean. [10]
- She collected herself so as not to betray her anxiety to the messenger, and said with downcast eyes: "I will go and look for her. [10]
- Very rarely did she recall the day when the funeral-pile had cooled, and the ashes of the two mothers, both so early summoned to the realm of shadows, were collected, placed in the vases, and added to the other urns. [10]
- Thus it is seen that if the whole revenue be collected in specie, it will take more than half of all the specie in the nation to do it. [7]
- M. Giraud-Teulon has recently collected ('Revue des Cours Scientifiques,' 1870, p. 625) a large and valuable body of evidence proving that the cause of short-sight, "C'est le travail assidu, de pres. [1]
- But the present-day reader would hardly be willing to include "Fireside Conversation in the Time of Queen Elizabeth" in Mark Twain's collected works. [5]
- A single individual rarely hired one; either a family took possession of it, or you got in and waited patiently till enough persons had collected for the driver to think it worth while to take his whip and say, "Well, get up! [10]
- M. A. de Quatrefages has also collected (Revue des Cours Scientifiques, March, 1869, p. 239), much evidence that Australians and Europeans are not sterile when crossed. [1]
- Parnassus: collected, 280; Preface, 314; allusion, 321. [6]
- If all the poetry and nonsense that have been discharged upon the fountains and the bland scenery of this region were collected in a book, it would make a most valuable volume to burn. [5]
- A crowd of people collected in front of the tomb, and he would have fared badly if it had not been for the police guard who drove them away. [10]
- During the early part of his purely literary career a large proportion of Warner's collected writings, which then appeared, were first published in the Atlantic Monthly. [4]
- They were both pale, and the superintendent of police, after reporting that he had executed the instructions he had received, informed the count that an immense crowd had collected in the courtyard and wished to see him. [2]
- On more than one occasion he threw aside his clerical coat and put on boxing-gloves, and he gave a series of lectures, with lantern slides, collected during the six months he had once spent in Europe. [9]
- Here sacrifices were offered on the altars of Serapis, Isis, and Anubis; here the sacred sistrum of Isis might be kissed; here hundreds of priests performed solemn ceremonies, and half of those who came hither for the festival of the dead collected about them. [10]
- The first two of these lectures, though not included in his collected works, may be found in the "North American Review" for 1837 and 1838. [6]
- We know something of the manner in which Mr. Motley collected his materials. [6]
- At the sight of the gold and silver which Antoinette had hastily collected, he turned to Madame la Vicomtesse. [9]
- A great number of persons had collected during the night on the quay near Nesptah's inn. [10]
- A little knot of people had collected to watch me, and out stepped a strapping fellow in the King's scarlet, from the Guard's Horse near by. [9]
- Emerson's first volume of his collected Essays was published in 1841. [6]
- A greater number of facts have been collected with respect to the transmission of the most trifling, as well as of the most important characters in man, than in any of the lower animals; though the facts are copious enough with respect to the latter. [1]
- A hideous hubbub of coarse, loud voices pierced her unaccustomed ears; she could have sunk on the earth and cried; but she kept up her courage and collected all her energies, for she saw in the distance a large gilt cross over a lofty doorway. [10]
- Yet he could not instantly get speech with him, so he collected his thoughts, and recovered his breath, while watching the men whom he sought talking eagerly with some gaily-clad Phoenician sailors. [10]
- If we were not in mortal terror of the imperial power, and a little fearful, too, of tiring our readers, we would write out all the legends we have collected of this first fight for consolidation, and show the blood, too. [9]
- The gold is not evenly distributed through the surface dirt, as in ordinary placer mines, but is collected in little spots, and they are very wide apart and exceedingly hard to find, but when you do find one you reap a rich and sudden harvest. [5]
- The venerable and nobly-born statesman was filled with vexation, nay, with an embarrassment that made him feel estranged, when he had to glance round the room to find the persons in it, collected, as they were, into small knots. [10]
- The old woman muttered a few unintelligible words; then she collected herself, stretched out her lean neck, and asked, as she fixed her sparkling eyes on the man before her: "Did'st thou ever, when thou wert young, hear of the singer Beki? [10]
- When I became more calm and collected, I applied myself, by way of occupation, to the finishing of my work. [4]
- The aides-de-camp collected money by subscription. [2]
- After a few moments, however, he had collected himself sufficiently to move on once more, when he discovered that he was repeating to himself, quite unconsciously, Mr. Hill's profanity "I wish to hell I wasn't. [9]
- Out of the midst of this thunder and turmoil and tempest rose Dr. Lecher, serene and collected, and the providential length of his enabled his head to show out of it. [5]
- Of course, the materials collected by me at the Hague are of great importance. [6]
- Gaumata uttered a low cry as he recognized her, collected himself, however, in a moment, and said: "What do you want with me, Mandane? [10]
- There was no longer room for the display, scarcely for the storage, of the works of art, the pictures, the curiosities, the books, that unlimited money and the opportunity of foreign travel had collected in all these years. [4]
- He collected his life-insurance, and lived happy ever after, for there was plenty of proof as to the perfect squareness of his death. [5]
- Quatrefages ('Unite de l'Espece Humaine,' 1861, p. 128) has collected much evidence on this head. [1]
- He did not know whom to answer, and for a few seconds collected his thoughts. [2]
- See the very interesting discussion on the 'Origin and Function of Music,' by Mr. Herbert Spencer, in his collected 'Essays,' 1858, p. 359. [1]
- Many of the inhabitants of the Necropolis had collected on either side of the lines of sphinxes, between which the princess drove up to the Sanctuary. [10]
- The tale, now included in his collected works, is, for some reason, little read to-day; yet the curious allegory, so vivid in its seeming reality, is well worth consideration. [5]
- Next to "Nature" in the series of his collected publications comes "The American Scholar. [6]
- The games depicted in the monuments are collected by Minutoli, in the Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung, 1852. [10]
- Two sparrow-hawks sat huddled up over the door of the cave, out of which came the sharp odor of burning juniper-berries; this was intended to render the various emanations rising from the different strange substances, which were collected and preserved there, innocuous. [10]
- He collected all his strength, to stir and utter a sound. [2]
- Every muscle of his powerful frame gained more rigid tension at the thought, and when he was presently hit by the sword of his hitherto unconquered foe, and felt the warm blood flow over his breast and left arm, he collected all his strength. [10]
- They acted on him like a stimulating air, in which he was always bold, collected, and steady. [11]
- Then she collected herself, and said hurriedly, "Now I will go away from here. [10]
- Then she collected herself and said: "You are very kind. [10]
- She always collected her half of his pension punctually, and he was always at the haunted house to have a chat with her on these occasions. [5]
- Lifting up her heart again in a brief prayer for a calm and collected mind, she slowly arranged her dress and its folds, and as she did so the key of the tomb-cave, which she still had about her, fell under her hand. [10]
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