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Sentences ending with collection

A drop of water, imprisoned in a crystal; you may see such a one in any mineralogical collection. [6]
When the play was done, a youth in his shirt-sleeves started around with a small copper saucer to make a collection. [5]
It can take up a collection. [5]
This dear young thing in the theater had been sitting there unconsciously taking up a collection. [5]
He went in state to the church on Sunday morning, with the army at his back, and commanded the minister of the treasury to take up a collection. [5]
Diseases should be recognized, as far as possible, not by any of the common names imposed upon them, as fever or epilepsy, but as individual collections of symptoms, each of which differs from every other collection. [3]
Then somebody sings out, "Take up a collection for him, take up a collection! [5]
He did not include me among the leading citizens who took the plates around for collection. [5]
In this way I have made quite a valuable collection. [5]
Such a letter has no place in this collection. [5]

Short sentences using collection

Suspend the collection, indeed! [7]

Sentences containing collection two or more times

I wrote and told him of one gentleman's vast collection of shells; another's noble collection of meerschaum pipes; another's elevating and refining collection of undecipherable autographs; another's priceless collection of old china; another's enchanting collection of postage-stamps--and so forth and so on. [5]
His collection of "china," as Pope and old-fashioned people call all sorts of earthenware, excited the enthusiasm of our host, whose admiration of some rare pieces in the collection was so great that it would have run into envy in a less generous nature. [6]

More example sentences with the word collection in them

I opened it with trembling fingers, and poured out, chinking on the table, such a motley collection of coins as was never seen,--Spanish milled dollars, English sovereigns and crowns and shillings, paper issues of the Confederacy, and I know not what else. [9]
All in all, whenever he thought of this pair, he felt like the lover of art who entrusts the finest gem in his collection to a rich man who knows not how to prize its real value, and puts it in the wrong place. [10]
The first place we visited was the Temple, a collection of buildings with intricate passages between them, some of the edifices reminding me of our college dormitories. [6]
But so it was; and the consequence followed that Old Sarum, with all its grand recollections, is but a collection of mounds and hollows,--as much a tomb of its past as Birs Nimroud of that great city, Nineveh. [6]
My first purpose was to have the man make a collection of caves and afterwards of echoes; but perceived that the element of absurdity and impracticability was so nearly identical as to amount to a repetition of an idea..... [5]
But the collection was alarmingly large and that stopped the matter. [5]
In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest one- and two- story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles, and morning glories. [5]
Though he used very little liquor of any kind, it was Mark Twain's custom to keep a bottle of Scotch whiskey with his collection of pipes and cigars and tobacco on a little table by his bed-side. [5]
The proprietor, a very intelligent and enterprising man, who had traveled often in the North, was full of projects for the development of his region and foremost in its enterprises, and had formed a considerable collection of minerals. [4]
He carefully made up his mind, and once more entered the field-this time to make a collection of echoes. [5]
Considered among Mark Twain's books to-day, the collection of sketches does not seem especially important. [5]
I was going to stuff one of them for my collection, but she is prejudiced against it for some reason or other; so I have relinquished the idea, though I think it is a mistake. [5]
The clergyman decided to make a collection for the survivors, if any. [5]
I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. [5]
My uncle began to look about for something to make a collection of. [5]
A concert was to be held after the service on the coming Sunday night, at which there was to be a collection for funds to build another mission- house a hundred miles farther North, and she had been practising music she was to sing. [11]
Less care, I thought, had been given in the collection to "sets" of "standards" than to those that are rare, or for some reason, either from distinguished ownership or autograph notes, have a peculiar value. [4]
Nikolaus had departed this life without absolution, and a collection was taken up for masses, to get him out of purgatory. [5]
He tempered off this exhibition by showing us a collection of pottery famous in England, that had belonged to the fifth duke, his father. [9]
The resources of the Public Library of the place and his own private collection were put in requisition to furnish him the singular and widely scattered facts of which he was in search. [6]
The count took the gentlemen into his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. [2]
We knew how the eggs of all the feathered guests of Germany were coloured and marked, and the chest of drawers containing our collection stood for years in my mother's attic. [10]
Later he became the editor-in-chief of the thirty odd volumes which make up the collection entitled "The World's Best Literature. [4]
So I divided the collection, and followed the advice of both parties. [5]
Then he farms the collection out. [5]
I remember on that occasion in the Hartford church the collection was being taken up. [5]
It was I that made the fame and fortune of that man that had that marvelous collection of weather on exhibition at the Centennial, that so astounded the foreigners. [5]
It was I that made the fame and fortune of that man that had that marvellous collection of weather on exhibition at the Centennial, that so astounded the foreigners. [5]
Will the collectors, that have taken their oaths to make the collection, dare to end it? [7]
Honora privately thought that building ugly, and it reminded her of a collection of huge yellow fungi sprawling over the ground. [9]
It might have sufficed, accepted as a book of revelation, for all the purposes of moral guidance, spiritual consolation, and systematized authority, if it had been a collection of precepts, a dry code of morals, an arsenal of judgments, and a treasury of promises. [4]
A collection of such documents, written by one whose life has become of interest to mankind at large, has a value quite aside from literature, in that it reflects in some degree at least the soul of the writer. [5]
But the most successful achievement was the collection of the bones of St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins, and their preservation in the church on the very spot where they suffered martyrdom. [4]
This vigor soon stopped the refusals, and the collection proceeded amid a sullen and ominous silence. [5]
On her toilet-table stood a collection of salve-boxes, and cups of ebony and ivory finely carved, and everything was arranged with the utmost taste, and exactly suited Nefert herself. [10]
Mr. Holt, who sought to entertain me before luncheon, offered to show me his collection of Chinese carvings! [9]
Naturally my chief solicitude was about my collection of Ceramics. [5]
Save for these shrines--for such in some sort they were to him--the Back Bay in his eyes was nothing more than a collection of houses inhabited by people whom money and social position made unassailable. [9]
We find this sentence on a vicious woman: She is a collection of every kind of meanness, and a bag full of wiles. [10]
When his collection seemed at last perfect, a stuffed whale arrived from Greenland and an Aztec inscription from the Cundurango regions of Central America that made all former specimens insignificant. [5]
Even in my second year at Keilhau I could distinguish all the notes of the numerous birds in the Thuringian forests, and, with Ludo, began the collection of eggs whose increase afforded us so much pleasure. [10]
The French, he says, have been celebrated chiefly for the skill of their chefs and their vaudeville actors, while in the disturbed 'speculum mundi' Americans have appeared as a collection of money grabbers whose philosophy is the dollar. [9]
I adjourned court right on the spot, and we put on our coats and went out and took up a collection for her and her cubs, and sent them over the mountains to their friends. [5]
Very recently I read a collection of letters which he wrote to the Newcastle Guardian, which some of you may know. [9]
And by-and-bye we reached the West End, a collection of hotels of the usual light summer-resort pattern, with broad verandas all around, and the waves of the wide and blue Lake Pontchartrain lapping the thresholds. [5]
The labor he put upon the editing of this collection occupied him a great deal of the time from 1895 to 1898. [4]
The very first piece in the collection could not fail to arrest him. [6]
Very well; I packed and stored a part of my collection, and the rest of it I placed in the care of the Grand Ducal Museum in Mannheim, by permission. [5]
To whom does our profession owe this already large collection of books, exceeded in numbers only by four or five of the most extensive medical libraries in the country, and lodged in a building so well adapted to its present needs? [3]
Thus A B, or a collection of cells united by simple structureless solid, is seen to be extensively employed in the body under the name of cartilage. [3]
Among the records of the past to which he referred during his last visit to this country was a letter which he took from a collection of papers and handed me to read one day when I was visiting him. [6]
A frequent form of so-called malignant disease proves to be only a collection of altered epithelium-cells. [3]
A large collection of facts on this subject is given in chap. [1]
In any collection of a hundred persons there will be found those who cannot make use of certain articles of food generally acceptable. [6]
He did this now every few days --not out of malice--I am sure of that--it only seemed to amuse and interest him, just as a naturalist might be amused and interested by a collection of ants. [5]
There is probably not so large a collection of the bones of virgins elsewhere in the world; and I am sorry to read that Professor Owen has thought proper to see and say that many of them are the bones of lower orders of animals. [4]
Henderson, indeed, had no time to add to his collection or enjoy it. [4]
Resolved, That a national bank, properly restricted, is highly necessary and proper to the establishment and maintenance of a sound currency, and for the cheap and safe collection, keeping, and disbursing of the public revenue. [7]
I have availed myself of the Magic papyrus of Harris, and of two in the Berlin collection, one of which is in Greek. [10]
Stranger and far more awkward than this is the case mentioned in an ancient collection, where the subject of the antipathy fainted at the sight of any object of a red color. [6]
Think of the mockery of giving one hour to such a collection of works of art and wonders of all kinds! [6]
We had the misfortune of seeing a painting of his in a collection belonging to one of the French princes, and exhibited at the Art Museum. [6]
We were quite merry at luncheon, and after luncheon, which for him was a glass of milk and a biscuit, Forbes said to me, "Those stories, Parker--you have the best collection of titles I have ever known. [11]
It seemed to me that these uncut gems must be more beautiful than any cut ones could be; but when a collection of cut ones was brought out, I saw my mistake. [5]
He politely asked me if I would take a little paper from a heap there was lying by the plate, and add a sovereign to the collection already there. [6]
I have by me "English as She is Taught"--a collection of American examinations made in the public schools of Brooklyn by one of the teachers, Miss Caroline B. [5]
Because the States may do enough by the levy and collection of tonnage duties; or if not--Fifth. [7]
The "Perkinistic Committee" made this statement in their report: "Mr. Perkins has annually laid before the public a large collection of new cases communicated to him for that purpose by disinterested and intelligent characters, from almost every quarter of Great Britain. [6]
The collection is made by a teacher in those schools, and all the examples in it are genuine; none of them have been tampered with, or doctored in any way. [5]
The aunt was just speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to Pierre's father, Count Bezukhov, and showed them her own box. [2]
I wonder if it ever occurs to our dried-up neighbor there to ask himself whether That Boy's collection of flies is n't about as significant in the Order of Things as his own Museum of Beetles? [6]
His Clinique Medicale is still valuable as a collection of cases, and his researches on the blood, conducted in association with Gavarret, contributed new and valuable facts to science. [6]
They had come into his own den and library, and he stood looking at the rows of his favorite collection shining in their new home. [4]
There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he. [12]
Old Councillor Wellmer, in the Crede House, in Berlin, a zealous entomologist, owned a large collection of beetles, and had carefully impaled his pets on long slender pins in neat boxes, which filled numerous glass cases. [10]
The main part in that business is the collection of the bill for services in skinning the man. [5]
To it even in his college days Warner contributed to some extent, though it would doubtless be possible now to gather out of this collection but few pieces which, lacking his own identification, could be assigned to him positively. [4]
The youth finished his collection trip and emptied the result on the stage; he had some very animated talk with the concealed manager, then he came working his way through the little crowd--seeking me, I thought. [5]
At any rate, he now had a manuscript collection which was unique in its way, which would have been worth much to a great many men, and with characteristic generosity he was placing it at the disposal of Mr. Crewe. [9]
Now and then he had an opportunity to head off some liberal friend, who wrote asking permission to contribute to his cigar collection, as instance the following. [5]
Not only is he acquainted with my Archives, but it seems as if there was nothing in this voluminous collection of which he was ignorant. [6]
I think I have lost so much by not making a collection of compliments, to put them away and take them out again once in a while. [5]
I said I had been having a general jail-delivery at Camelot and among neighboring castles, and with her permission I would like to examine her collection, her bric-a-brac--that is to say, her prisoners. [5]
That great and growing collection of fifty thousand volumes is under the eye and hand of a librarian who knows books and how to manage them. [3]
The Doctor smiled good-humoredly when he asked him if he had an extensive collection of medical works. [6]
Maurice had a good many volumes of his own,--a great many, according to Paolo's account; but Paolo's ideas were limited, and a few well-filled shelves seemed a very large collection to him. [6]
Mr. M'Lennan has given ('Primitive Marriage,' 1865, p. 176) a good collection of facts on this head. [1]
This led to further talk about Henderson's hobby, and the editor had asked permission to send a reporter down to make a note of Henderson's collection. [4]
The vulture is from the public menagerie at Adelaide--a great and interesting collection. [5]
My collection of fourteen-syllable German words is still incomplete. [5]
The obvious remedy for this would be more intelligent direction in the collection of news, and more careful sifting and supervision of it when gathered. [4]
He gave money for the erection of temples and supplemented as far as he could the collection of alms, in regard to which the majority of members were stingy and irregular. [2]
Colazione is Italian for a collection, a meeting, a seance, a sitting.--M.T. [5]
That was a fine collection of sovereigns, that first Nevada legislature. [5]
He has a fine collection of books relating to New Zealand; and his house is a museum of Maori art and antiquities. [5]
It was a fierce and furious gallop--and the gait never altered for a moment till we reeled off ten or twelve miles and swept up to the next collection of little station-huts and stables. [5]
They come to feel at last that the books of a great collection are a part, not merely of their own property, though they are only the agents for their distribution, but that they are, as it were, outlying portions of their own organization. [6]
No more regular features were to be seen in any collection of wax figures; the princess also possessed the art of keeping her face perfectly unmoved. [10]
Perhaps such an extraordinary collection of humanity cannot be seen elsewhere in the world, such a uniformity of one depressing type reduced to its last analysis by the sea-toilet. [4]
In December, 1874, Emerson published "Parnassus," a Collection of Poems by British and American authors. [6]

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