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Example sentences for "collections"

Lexicographically close words:
collectedly; collectedness; collectible; collecting; collection; collective; collectively; collectives; collectivism; collectivist
  1. Such hand-work was a part of their school tasks, and there were collections of pottery and fabrics which they could be taken to see.

  2. The Odyssey will be used, however, in schools where there is no handwork and no chance of seeing collections of suitable objects.

  3. Other semi-scientific nature-writers will doubtless appear in most collections of children's books--and may do no harm.

  4. Pompeii and Herculaneum are preserved, together with the collections previously made of statues and paintings.

  5. They were two collections of Songs, three Duetts for two Violins, the seventh Violin Concerto and a grand Polonaise for Violin and Orchestra, work 37-41.

  6. The next morning the objects most worthy of notice in Halberstadt were visited, particularly the collections of paintings belonging to the Canon von Spiegel and Dr.

  7. The collections thus packed reached England in a perfect state of preservation.

  8. All collections made in tropical countries should be sent to Europe with the least possible delay, as they soon become deteriorated or spoilt, unless great care is bestowed on them.

  9. We would continue to remind pastors and churches of our Leaflets, which we will be happy to furnish, on application, to those taking collections for our Association.

  10. We renew and emphasize that appeal, for these collections are the steady streams on which we rely to keep in motion the wheels of the large and ever enlarging work of the Association.

  11. There was a bank balance of several hundred dollars, from collections at meetings, monthly pledges of members and gifts from Dr.

  12. Mrs. Hodges continued to pay the rent of headquarters and a substantial bank account was built up by dues, subscriptions and collections at meetings.

  13. So it happens that the large deposits of the railways, their collections from the Southern people, as also from the Western people, are sent on largely to those banks.

  14. The nominal or schedule charges for collections and exchange are frequently cut for the benefit of business men whose favor it is desired to propitiate.

  15. Some of the older institutions would like to prevent competition from absorbing the minor profits which come from collections and transactions in exchange, but they are not entirely successful.

  16. Now concerning the collections that are made for the saints: as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, so do ye also.

  17. On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be made.

  18. The grant made by Congress is two miles square and embraces two distinct groves; that is, two collections of big trees, separated by a considerable space having none.

  19. Some of the houses, as an additional attraction to visitors, offered exhibitions of collections of curiosities.

  20. Thoms, became so popular as to call for the establishment of a separate society, which publishes a quarterly journal entitled Folk-lore, and has annually issued one or more volumes of collections of folk-lore.

  21. This remained unknown, however, except as a literary curiosity, till a few months ago; and several of the poems had been omitted in all the collections of Schiller's works.

  22. The most celebrated of these were the collections of bishops Burchard of Worms about A.

  23. After the Pseudo-Isidore (ยง 87, 2) many collections of church laws appeared.

  24. The story of Walewein is one that appears in collections of popular tales; it is that of Mac Iain Direach in Campbell's West Highland Tales (No.

  25. Many of the Sagas are much improved by being taken to pieces and regarded, not as continuous histories, but as collections of separate short stories.

  26. These collections created orthodox standards, and these standards, once acknowledged, the natural conservatism attaching to religious customs was sufficient to maintain their continuance.

  27. Through Layard, the foundations were laid for the Assyrian and Babylonian collections of the British Museum, the parts of which exhibited to the public now fill six large halls.

  28. Similar collections to those of Sippar have been found in almost every mound of Southern Mesopotamia that has been opened since the days of Rassam.

  29. So at Djumdjuma, situated near the site of the ancient city of Babylon, some three thousand were unearthed that were added to the fast growing collections of the British Museum.

  30. All three translations are by Herder, although they were for a long time ascribed to Goethe and inserted in various collections of Goethe's works, e.

  31. But for the loss of his collections and notes we should have had from Wallace's pen a Physical History of the Amazon.

  32. He showed me indeed many excellent collections of the State of the Revenue in former Kings and the late times, and the present.

  33. But my report in the business of the collections is mightily commended and will get me some reputation, and indeed is the only thing looks like a thing well done since we sat.

  34. Thence home, and though not very well yet up late about the Fishery business, wherein I hope to give an account how I find the Collections to have been managed, which I did finish to my great content, and so home to supper and to bed.

  35. La Salle's Last Expedition and Discoveries in North America,' in Collections of the New-York Historical Society, ii.

  36. Rashi's commentaries and the ritual collections following his teachings were widely copied there, and of course, truncated and mutilated.

  37. The collections of canonical law by force of tradition renewed the humiliating measures prescribed by the last Roman emperors.

  38. These short analyses may give an idea of the collections not yet edited; for they all stand in relation one with the other, and are in great part formed of the same elements and derived from the same material.

  39. But not to omit anything essential, it would be well to mention some collections which were the result of his instruction, and some liturgical poems attributed to him.

  40. From the first they were meant to be compilations, collections of rules, rather than works having a specified object.

  41. I> In all these collections it is sometimes difficult to determine what is Rashi's handiwork, or which of his pupils is responsible for certain passages.

  42. By this name are designated Haggadic collections for various distinguished times and seasons of the year.

  43. The law of private corporations must therefore be sought in some fifty collections or groups of statutory and case-made rules.

  44. These collections or groups of rules differ in many cases essentially from each other.

  45. A number of collections of such judgments (Schoffenspruche) have been published.

  46. But the use of the farthing has not been confined to the collections of bygone days.

  47. The plate for collections is inside the church, so that the whole congregation can give a guess at what you give.

  48. The collections made at the church door largely supplied the amounts necessary for effecting the ransom of those luckless sailors who fell into the clutches of the pirates.

  49. It is hoped at least, that it may indicate the mode in which such collections may be made, among the tribes, and become the means of eliciting materials more worthy of attention.

  50. Georgenberg and Viecht, but it occupies too much time, and quite merits the separate excursion by its collections and its views.

  51. This will enable you to test it out thoroughly and, furthermore, you will not have to make the first payment until you have opportunity to make collections for the December advertising.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collections" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.