1 Melanie was on the board of lady managers of the Orphans' Home and assisted in the collection of books for the newly formed Young Men's Library Association.
2 "As choice a collection of mules in horse harness as you could group together," said Rhett, his voice going into a soft drawl.
3 Bonnie, who had watched from the window impatiently all afternoon, anxious to display a mangled collection of beetles and roaches to her father, had finally been put to bed by Lou, amid wails and protests.
4 Carol caught herself picturing pleasanter reading-rooms, chairs for children, an art collection, a librarian young enough to experiment.
5 Her large face, with its disturbing collection of moles and lone black hairs, wrinkled cunningly.
6 It was a collection of furnaces, fat-kettles, and oil sheds; and when the works were in full operation certainly gave forth no very pleasant savor.
7 From under the lining he now produced a collection of brilliantly coloured paper figures, several inches high and stiff enough to stand alone.
8 Over the bookcase hung a photograph of the Tragic Theatre at Pompeii, which he had given me from his collection.
9 He had brought a tintype of himself and Rudolph for Antonia's collection, and several paper bags of candy for the children.
10 Every lawyer learns over and over how strong a motive hate can be, but in my collection of legal anecdotes I had nothing to match this one.
11 There was no other place for the babies to be, and so part of the preparations for the evening consisted of a collection of cribs and carriages in one corner.
12 The "Union Stockyards" were never a pleasant place; but now they were not only a collection of slaughterhouses, but also the camping place of an army of fifteen or twenty thousand human beasts.
13 The advance, with Heyward at its head, had already reached the defile, and was slowly disappearing, when the attention of Cora was drawn to a collection of stragglers by the sounds of contention.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 14 When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 15 You see what a collection I have," said she; "more by half than I ever use or think of.