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Example sentences for "small collection"

  • A small collection of little moment, A New Universal Collection of Voyages, appeared in London in 1755.

  • Kalbfleisch of New York has a small collection, but it embraces some of the rarest books.

  • Hagen, secured a few adapted and original hymns from him for a small collection of Historical Hymns and Rhymes for Children, which was published in 1832.

  • Stub's work remained almost unknown during his lifetime, but a small collection of his poems, published after his death, gained him a posthumous recognition as the greatest Danish poet of the 18th century.

  • In the fall of 1845, he published a small collection of Christmas hymns to be used at the impending Christmas festival.

  • Then it was that Mr. Alberto Cavazzocca, of Verona, commenced to search Il Bor on his own account, and succeeded in a couple of seasons in securing from it a small collection of antiquities, including objects of stone and bronze.

  • I possess a small collection of forged autograph letters to use for detective purposes, and as a warning to others.

  • The price of Nelson letters was well maintained, a small collection of them, with portraits and sundry relics, fetching £145.

  • Did you mention to your friend my small collection of Original Pictures?

  • In a small collection I found that a single grain of one variety nearly equalled in weight seven grains of another variety.

  • I have made a small collection of the stones of twenty-five kinds, and they graduate in shape from the bluntest into the sharpest kinds.

  • A home library is a small collection of books, usually only 15 or 20, with one or two young folks' periodicals, put up in a box with locked cover.

  • This supposition calls to mind another argument sometimes used to prove how easy it was to make a small collection of books.

  • There is a small collection of these stamps in the British Museum.

  • A small collection, derived chiefly, I think, from the excavations at Achmin in Upper Egypt, has lately been purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum (from M.

  • There is at South Kensington a small collection of the earlier facetted glass, presented by Mr. H.

  • There is also in the Archaeological Museum at Madrid a small collection of what has been described as Visigothic jewellery, consisting of a handsome phalera, necklaces, finger-rings, and earrings.

  • Thus I parted with my paper for drying plants, with my specimens of wood, with a small collection of rocks, made by Mr. Gilbert, and with all the duplicates of our zoological specimens.

  • Mr. Gilbert's small collection of plants, which I had carefully retained hitherto, shared the same fate.

  • In every case the managers are very anxious to co-operate and are willing to have us send a small collection of light fiction to the time clerk's desk.

  • The admission is by ticket, costing a franc each for the palace itself, with extra tickets for the Bridge of Sighs and the Museum, a small collection.

  • A small collection of works of general literature.

  • We were now shown into a room where there was a small collection of minerals, and of Roman remains found about the ruins of the temple.

  • Returning from a walk through the deserted streets one morning, I saw a small collection of people around the porte-cochère of our hotel.

  • The fragment of a village which the traveller passes for Martigny, on his way to Italy, is not the true hamlet of that name, but a small collection of houses that has sprung up since the construction of the Simplon road.

  • There were newspapers, and a small collection of books,—the standard works of Italian writers, with some French.

  • In my room there was a small collection of books, on a dusty shelf, which I should not have expected to find in such hands.

  • There is a small collection of Sardinian antiquities in the British Museum, recently supplied by Signor Cara; but it does not contain, as might have been wished, any specimens of these singular images.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    circle around; great harm; poor souls; small amounts; small beer; small block; small book; small caste; small city; small clump; small cove; small hand; small letters; small onion; small people; small plate; small point; small screw; small stones; small thing; small town; small towns; small trees; small volume; small water; syphilitic infection