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Example sentences for "miscellany"

Lexicographically close words:
miscarry; miscebitur; miscegenation; miscellaneous; miscellanies; mischance; mischances; mischancy; mische; mischeef
  1. Out of some such miscellany it is that in most cases the student passes to specialization, to a different and narrower process which aims at a specific end, to the course of the College.

  2. Until that period we have been prevailed upon to allow this number of our Miscellany to be retailed to the public, or wholesaled to the trade, without any advance upon our usual price.

  3. They had swept together sonnets in manuscript from all quarters and presented their customers with a disordered miscellany of what they called 'orphan poems.

  4. The earliest collections of sonnets to be published in England were those by the Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt, which first appeared in the publisher Tottel's poetical miscellany called 'Songes and Sonnetes' in 1557.

  5. This left me with fully eight thousand miscellany on hand, with nothing but my ranch outfit to hold them, close-herding by day and bedding down and guarding them by night.

  6. A number of mature beeves even were noticeable and younger steers were numerous, while the miscellany of the herd ran to every class and condition of the bovine race.

  7. But if Mr. Chesterton had called his book This, That, and the Other and Mr. Belloc had called his A Miscellany of Men, it would not have made a pennyworth of difference.

  8. The poems here printed are new, in the sense that they have not previously been issued by their authors in book form--a fact which surely gives the Miscellany an unique place among modern collections.

  9. The impression left by this miscellany is that of a collection of sayings put together by an editor out of some Oracles by our Prophet himself and deliverances by other prophets on the same or similar themes.

  10. His chapters are in part a miscellany of notes, and the construction is clumsy.

  11. Where, on the other hand, he has had to trust largely to scattered notes, as in the record of Herod's successors, his history is little better than a miscellany of disjointed passages.

  12. It appeared in 1693 in the first volume of his epistolary miscellany Letters of Love and Gallantry and Several Other Subjects.

  13. The writer says: "In that most entertaining miscellany Notes and Queries (No.

  14. Previous to the publication of a small volume entitled 'A Miscellany of Poems,' Savage wrote the story of his life in a political paper called The Plain Dealer.

  15. The same title was given to a similar miscellany by Marc Antony Muretus, a native of Limoges.

  16. Davidson’s Poetical Rhapsody, in 1602, is a miscellany of the same class.

  17. The phrases explained are generally difficult; so that this miscellany gives a high notion of the erudition of Turnebus, and it has furnished abundant materials to later commentators.

  18. Immediately after its commencement, in January 1827, this Miscellany met with extensive encouragement, which has enabled the Publishers to bring forward a series of works of the very highest interest, and at unparalleled low prices.

  19. Being intended for all ages as well as ranks, Constable’s Miscellany is printed in a style and form which combine at once the means of giving much matter in a small space, with the requisites of great clearness and facility.

  20. The awning spread along the route of the procession is fairly checkered with a miscellany of patches.

  21. A troop of infantry, whose dapper costume outwent itself in the last touch of bright green gloves, dazzled by, and then came a miscellany of maskers.

  22. The Unitarian and Foreign Religious Miscellany was published in Boston during 1847, with Rev.

  23. The Monthly Miscellany of Religion and Letters was begun in Boston with April, 1839.

  24. Spottiswoode Miscellany (The) A Collection of Original Papers and Tracts illustrative of the History of Scotland.

  25. Miscellany (The) of the Wodrow Society, edited by D.

  26. He ceased to write for The Lady's Book in consequence of a quarrel induced by Mr. Godey's justifiable refusal to print in that miscellany his "Reply to Dr.

  27. Again, "I am the victim of miscellany--miscellany of designs, vast debility and procrastination.

  28. I believe that, fifty years ago, England had never seen a Miscellany or a Review so well conducted as our 'Anthology,' however superior such publications may now be in that kingdom.

  29. The traveller flings himself on the bewildering miscellany of delicacies spread before him, the various tempting forms of ambrosia and seducing draughts of nectar, with the same eager hurry and restless ardor that you describe in the poet.

  30. An aperient or an opiate, a "cardiac" or a tonic, may be commonly found in the midst of a somewhat fantastic miscellany of garden herbs.

  31. If the 'Miscellany of Foreign Literature' contains a succession of volumes of the kind and quality of those with which it has commenced, it will prove a welcome addition to many a library.

  32. To whom the Third Miscellany is dedicated.

  33. The Third Miscellany was published in July 1693.

  34. The last piece in this Miscellany has no connection with what precedes it, but it has an interest of its own.

  35. Selections from this curious miscellany were afterwards printed in three volumes, and ran into three editions.

  36. The excerpt which comes next in this Miscellany links with the name of the author of the Essay of Dramatic Poesy the name of the most illustrious of his contemporaries.

  37. We have now arrived at the pamphlets in our Miscellany bearing on the reign of Queen Anne.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miscellany" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    album; anterior; anthology; assemblage; assortment; canon; clipping; collection; compilation; conglomerate; conglomeration; cutting; flowers; fragment; garden; garland; gleaning; hash; hotchpotch; jumble; magpie; mash; mass; maze; medley; melange; mess; miscellany; mix; mixture; olio; omnibus; patchwork; posy; potpourri; rummage; salad; sauce; scramble; scrapbook; stew; sundries; symposium; variety