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Example sentences for "large collection"

  • Amidst preaching and pastoral work, it was a relief to spend a short holiday under Mr. Coombs’ hospitable roof at Clapham, where I found a large collection of books.

  • Signor Guicciardini has contributed a large collection of Savonarola’s works to this Magliabecchian Library, as it is called, and the catalogue of them runs over sixty pages.

  • In Madrid I had the privilege of using the public library, and found there a large collection of English and French, as well as Spanish, literature.

  • It contains a large collection of works on educational subjects for which a special classification has been devised and printed.

  • The library of St John's College is rich in early printed books, and possesses a large collection of English historical tracts.

  • It devotes special attention to jurisprudence, of which it has a large collection.

  • There is no room for additions, and a large collection of modern books was refused a few years ago on that account.

  • We found a large collection of those ghastly-looking idols piled away in the crypt of the church.

  • There is also on exposition a large collection of plants, and a magnificent art gallery of paintings, sculpture, &c.

  • The number of manuscripts left by him exceeded four thousand eight hundred in number, together with a large collection of charters and deeds.

  • One hundred and three prints by Albert Dürer, in two lots, sold for one pound, ten shillings and sixpence, and a large collection of woodcuts by the same artist for half a crown.

  • He is a man of science who has got together a large collection of facts, and who expounds and arranges them on a certain coherent and sufficient hypothesis.

  • Left a large collection of books to the New York Historical Society, where they are kept in a room appropriated to their sole occupancy.

  • Lichtenstein, of Boston, has a large collection of book-plates.

  • A large collection of water-copies from the Old Masters was thus accumulated, and the Collection was in 1897 deposited in the National Gallery on loan.

  • His etchings and drawings are well known; in the Staedel Institute of his native town there is a large collection of them.

  • There is a large collection of his works in the Louvre.

  • In the South Kensington Museum there is a large collection of his Swiss views in water-colour.

  • There were five small forts, occupied by merchants, of whom one was a Hindi from Cutch, and a large collection of mat huts, mostly occupied by women.

  • The kiln was an artless hole in the ground, in which there was a large collection of cinders, and other debris not worth mentioning.

  • The village of Kurrum consisted of a single fort and a large collection of mat huts, all grouped together, situated close to the shore.

  • In one room is a large collection of medals, and in another of coins.

  • The exhibit in forestry, fish, and game showed the great variety of woods that grow in Siam, the appliances that are used for fishing, skins of the many wild animals of the country, and a large collection of forest products.

  • He had a large collection of women here, but had himself gone north with a view to trade in Karague.

  • On my return in the afternoon to Brussels, I visited the Museum, the collection in which is well deserving of notice; there is a numerous variety of insects, a large collection of birds and animals, as well as minerals.

  • On my arrival I proceeded to the Gardens of the Tuilleries, where there is a large collection of orange trees, and several capacious gravel walks, or avenues, with numerous ornamental groups of sculpture.

  • I was however much pleased with the fine collection of Cacteae that are grown in this establishment, as well as a large collection of Cape, and other green house plants.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    large areas; large birds; large characters; large class; large crown; large detachment; large eyes; large library; large ones; large patch; large property; large quantity; large room; large school; large series; large slice; large sum; large tablespoonful; large town; large tracts; largely grown; largely used; larger quantities; largest producer; three fourths; who will