It was resolved that William Payne's expenses in the journey, and those incurred by Mr. Davy in collecting the specimens, should be defrayed by the managers.
He settled his affairs with his neighbours, collecting dues and paying debts, well assured that his wife and child would lack none of the means of a comfortable support.
The winds are its currents, driving before them and collecting the clouds.
In this way he spent fifteen years of study in collecting his materials.
You have had the Established Church supported by the law, even to the extent, not many years ago, of collecting its revenues by the aid of military force.
In the absence of a Habeas Corpus Act, the victim lies in gaol indefinitely, while the police are, nominally, collecting the evidence against him.
In the meantime he was collecting a flotilla of flat-bottomed boats.
I am collecting some curious, and I hope valuable, information about that work.
Some years ago I visited a farm-house in the north of England, whose owner had a taste for collecting curiosities of all sorts.
It often happens that the citizens of one county pay more than their share of the state taxes because it has better methods of assessing and collecting taxes and of keeping accounts than other counties in the state.
Many boys could make good wages by going over the corn field at cutting time and collecting the ears lying on the ground.
Here also the mourners sat, and the company that were collecting to attend the funeral.
Several negroes were engaged a short distance from the fort in collecting the sap.
As they saw some very rich blossoms on the banks of the river, they took a little skiff, and went from one side to the other collecting them.
It is not to be wondered, then, that there is little direct record of folk-lore of his own collecting in his writing, even when he is writing of folk-topics.
In her "Poets and Dreamers" (1903) are records of this collecting and of her study of local ways about Coole and on the Connemara coast and in the Aran Isles.
It must be so," replied I, collecting my senses after a few moments of thought.
The collecting fire-wood was the great risk which we ran; for we were then obliged to land where there was wood.
Antonio, in collecting the news of the settlement, found in the young girl Josefa an able adjutant.
These arrangements were simple enough, and consisted in collecting the crowd to one side, so that the bull, when let loose, would have a clear track before him in the direction of the open country.
This is what we should be driven to, if we were ever to succeed in collecting all the forms in any class which have lived throughout all time and space.
I well remember, when first collecting in the fresh waters of Brazil, feeling much surprise at the similarity of the fresh-water insects, shells, etc.
The Count of Valentinois, who commanded the garrison of Vannes, supported the siege with great courage and fortitude, knowing that Charles of Blois and the King of France were collecting a great army for his relief.
Arming themselves instantly, and collecting a few followers, they rushed to the houses of the chief conspirators, but found them empty, Marcel and his companions having already gone to the gates.
He had been for months engaged in collecting a huge army, and he had now an opportunity of fighting the English in a fair field with a force four times as great as their own.
I suppose Mr. Branford went out to Arizona for the express purpose of collecting insurance on my jewels," she added sarcastically with eyes that snapped fire.
He renewed the business ofcollecting the scattered papers.
March was on his knees, collecting brushes and tubes into his color box.
The noise aroused her from her stupor, and, collecting her strength, she tried to recall what had happened.
The duke, by not attacking the rebels, has prudently sought to avoid a devastating civil war; whilst, by collecting a numerous army, he has overawed and restrained them.
Then I shall go on and on to New Guinea, collecting all the time, spending perhaps four or five years out there before I return; that is, if the Malays and Papuans will be kind enough to leave me alone and not throw spears at me.
One summer Uncle Joseph bought me a book on butterflies, with coloured plates, which so interested me that I began collecting the very next day, and captured a large cabbage butterfly.
Another thing, my boy--a very simple thing, but one which you must learn to do, for your eyes are too valuable when we are collecting for them to do anything but look out for the treasures we seek.
I don't want to leave you, but I'd give anything to go collecting with Uncle Dick, anywhere, all over the world.
Sometimes we had a beetle day, sometimes a butterfly day, collecting the loveliest specimens; but birds formed our principal pursuit, and our cases began to present a goodly aspect as we packed in carefully the well-dried aromatic skins.
Yes, this is a better collecting ground than Clapham Common, Nat," said my uncle.
Uncle Dick," I said one day, "shall we ever have another trip together collecting birds?
This place exceeds my highest hopes for a collecting ground.
At both of these places we made many expeditions, collecting both birds and insects, some of them being very lovely; but there was a want of novelty about them, my uncle said, the ground having been so often visited before.
Very soon they are joined by an enthusiastic native, and the trio spend some years collecting numerous splendid specimens, of birds, beetles, and anything else they can.
During this period he had spoken with hardly anyone, except when necessary - ordering food in restaurants, paying for goods at the general store, or collecting his bundles of forwarded mail at the post office.
Afterward, as Matthew and Laurence were collecting their notes and briefcases, William strolled into the press room.
In about a week I go for a month collecting there, and then return to prepare for a voyage to New Guinea.
As a proof how little advance I had made on the subject, I may mention that though I had beencollecting facts on the colouring and other sexual differences in mammals, your explanation with respect to the females had not occurred to me.
I have just returned from a short trip, and am now about to start on a longer one, but to a place where there are some soldiers, a doctor and engineer who speak English, so if it is good for collecting I shall stay there some months.
I am trying to begin a little book on the Distribution of Animals, but I fear I shall not make much of it from my idleness in collecting facts.
Later, he again joined Wallace, and then went to New Guinea, doing valuable collecting and exploring work.
But I feel myself incorrigibly lazy, and have no such system of collecting and arranging facts or of making the most of my materials as you and many of our hard-working naturalists possess in perfection.
The passion for collecting which leads a man to be a systematic naturalist .
Whether he can work, for there is sometimes as hard work in collecting as in anything.
Bates was at this time employed by his father, who was a hosiery manufacturer, and he could therefore only devote his spare time to collecting beetles in the surrounding neighbourhood.
I therefore began to form a herbarium, collecting good specimens and drying them carefully between drying papers and a couple of boards weighted with books or stones.
On a certain day he went to the village of Dzantoo for the purpose of collecting alms.
On a certain day, Deipinkara was travelling through the country for the twofold purpose of preaching the law and collecting his food.
The encomenderos have made great profits in collecting in kind, for, after they acquired possession of the products, they sold them at higher prices.
He learned by his spies, and rumor had it, that the emperor of Japon was collecting a large army and preparing many boats for it, and large supplies of arms and food.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collecting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
