How To Use Miscellany In A Sentence
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Consequently, this book consists of two sections - an autobiographical account of Waldrop's life, followed by a kind of miscellany of Michael Revere's writings (essays, poetry, journals, etc.).
Smoky Mountain News
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It was covered with medical journals, textbooks, mail and miscellany.
WILD JUSTICE
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Under that, the miscellany began -- a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.
Treasure Island
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Curry House serves about 14 kinds of curry using a miscellany of ingredients, among them chicken, pork, beef and peeled shrimp.
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miscellany," or hodgepodge of prayers, poems and ritual law, probably written around the end of the 15th century.
The Jewish Week (BETA)
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Also included is an interesting cosmographical miscellany that is unpublished but holds a great deal of interest for historians of cartography.
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The museum houses a fascinating miscellany of nautical treasures.
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By tradition, an incumbent prime minister - when time comes for re-election - faces a miscellany of Monster Raving Loonies and hapless candidates from the other major parties.
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This volume is condensed with many thoughts, and to some may seem more of a "miscellany" than what we intend it should be.
Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses; With Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishops' Wives
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A miscellany, an assortment, or a catalog, as of complaints, comments, or ideas.
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I was distinguishing what was indisputably a mass-market phenomenon-opera and the fantasies spun off from opera that were the core of so-called miscellany programs-from the serious music written for a composer's pupils or the connoisseurs who patronized aristocratic salons.
City Journal
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Her poems were published in Antaeus, The Atlantic Monthly, Carleton Miscellany, The Nation, The New Yorker, Paris Review, The Saturday Review, Parnassus and Poetry.
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The show was a miscellany of song and dance.
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Why would you not construe it that way knowing that there is a miscellany of arrangements in the States?
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English law already contains a miscellany of threats offences, but there has never been a general strategy on threats.
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I possess the odd cat-themed coffee mug and the stray back cat book mark, but you won't come to my home and spot any porcelain puss trinkets, Hello Kitty miscellany or Lilian Jackson Braun books.
For I will consider my Cat Spainy, For she is the servant of the Living God...
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The programmes were a miscellany of serious sociology and downright mindless entertainment with the usual film fare thrown in for good measure.
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So the word ‘dog’ covers such a miscellany of different things that we must be very careful there, and I sensed a confusion growing up amongst us.
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Next we plunged into another, rather poorly-lit corridor lined with glass cases filled with a miscellany of objects.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Recall that the president requested $17.0 billion for DOE and $4.8 billion for the "miscellany" (for a subtotal of an additional $21.8 billion).
Winslow T. Wheeler: The 2007 Defense Budget May Not Be What You Think
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Food was prepared by a miscellany of club members.
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The museum houses a fascinating miscellany of nautical treasures.
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I'm so damn lazy and this word varia's got me so relaxed--see, this is literary miscellany.
Varia
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He lifted his gaze from the communications device, glancing around the room at the miscellany of alien machines.
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Over the intervening years it again reverted to a market selling a miscellany of goods as it had done in its heyday.
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The coming to light of a miscellany of my father's student-day notes was incentive to prepare this collection.
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It includes a great miscellany of individuals.
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This miscellany printed poems by Wordsworth, Crabbe, and Byron, as well as many others whose popularity has faded.
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The Horizon was clearly intended to be a miscellany with a particular emphasis upon the foibles and strengths of the press.
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The miscellany of different loans make up an alphabet soup of SALs, SECALs and ESAFs.
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Judgments of such a kind may serve as good examples to the community at large, but of what use are they to a thirty-year-old man with his own miscellany of desires, dreams and idiosyncrasies?
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These songs gradually developed a concomitant form of dialogue styled saturæ, a term denoting "miscellany", and derived perhaps from the _Satura lanx_, a charger filled with the first-fruits of the year's produce, which was offered to Bacchus and Ceres. [
English Satires
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In my opinion, the "miscellany" approach practiced by most literary magazines -- by which the "best fiction available" is printed, with little or no indication of what makes it the "best" -- makes all too many of them useless; I can only make my way through a few of them, trying to find the "best" in a scattershot fashion, before I put them aside and conclude it just isn't worth my time (and sometimes money) to prospect for fiction in this way.
Writing and Publishing
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But, though it should happen that an author is capable of excelling, yet his merit may pass without notice, huddled in the variety of things, and thrown into the general miscellany of life.
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To gain access to the car park itself one has to traverse a miscellany of surfaces grass verge, lightweight kerbing and footpath and then, would you believe, one is confronted by two sets of sleeping policemen within yards of one another.
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For instance: A writer spends his spare time in stamping and addressing countless envelopes and in keeping a large miscellany of manuscripts on the road.
EDITORIAL CRIMES – A PROTEST
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A notable omission from this miscellany of singers is of course, the castrato.
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A sports miscellany is supposedly in the works.
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Maronites, Copts, Berbers, Kurds and Africans as well as Arabs and Muslims inhabit a miscellany of lands from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from the Saharan desert to the foothills of Anatolia.
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Bryan contributed to Tottel's Miscellany and his poetry was highly valued in his day, but is now undiscoverable.
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The 1957 Act made a miscellany of changes of the law of homicide which can hardly be described as amounting to a coherent and interlocking scheme.
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A notable omission from this miscellany of singers is of course, the castrato.
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Bentley's Miscellany at beginning of 1837, and commences “Oliver Twist”; Quarterly Review predicts his speedy downfall; pecuniary position at this time; moves from Furnival's Inn to Doughty Street; death of his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth; his friendships; absence of all jealousy in his character; habits of work; riding and pedestrianizing; walking in London streets necessary to the exercise of his art 49
Life of Charles Dickens
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_ _Puck_, _pouke_, we find in O.E. (Old E.glish Miscellany, _E. E.T.S._, 76), in Piers Plowman, and surviving in Spenser; but there are countless analogous forms:
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'
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A miscellany is a collection of various literary productions kinds (poems, letters, essays, illustrations) gathered in a single volume, often united thematically rather than formally.
The Millions
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It was comfortably furnished with a miscellany which he had accumulated from departing Rhodesians.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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The show was a miscellany of song and dance.
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Toward evening, the sidewalks, especially those in the vicinity of high buildings, were packed with bamboo reclining chairs, stools and a miscellany of makeshift sitting devices such as biscuit tins and blocks of wood.
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What is the understanding in Western Australia as to the relationship between Chapter V of the Criminal Code and the creation of offences in all sorts of other statutes dealing with a wide miscellany of things?
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Founded in Philadelphia in 1801 and issued weekly until 1809, Port Folio served up a miscellany of original and reprinted essays under the direction of Joseph Dennie.
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In the store the long shelves upon one side held dry-goods, while upon the opposite shelves a miscellany of groceries was displayed; toward the rear was the storekeeper's assortment of hardware near a counter piled high with sweaters, boots, chaparejos, all jumbled hopelessly.
Man to Man
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Next comes a corridor where a miscellany of drawings, a small but exquisite textile and two engraved gems, one of Lorenzo the Magnificent and one of Savonarola, are displayed.
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Magius, 1664 "; then, pell-mell, there were: _A curious and edifying miscellany concerning church bells_ by Dom Rémi Carré; another _Edifying miscellany_, anonymous; a _Treatise of bells_ by Jean-Baptiste Thiers, curate of Champrond and Vibraye; a ponderous tome by an architect named
Là-bas
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Of the purpose with which he had written he spoke thus in what I described as the fragments of a preface to his Miscellany: --
The Bon Gaultier Ballads
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Guy's pocket cyclopaedia: Or Miscellany of useful knowledge, from the best authorities: designed for senior scholars in schools, by Joseph Guy
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He edited Within Our Province, a miscellany of Ulster writing.
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This arena, inaccessible to the public for 145 years, now hosts a miscellany of events, from cancan dancers to choirs and theatre festivals.
10 of the best arts venues in south London
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Blogs now cover a miscellany of culinary topics, sometimes only tangentially related to food.
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The title intended by Sheridan for this paper was "Hernan's Miscellany," to which his friend Halhed objected, and suggested, "The Reformer," as a newer and more significant name.
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01