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  • The truly odd duck here isDeath Valley Days, which was an anthology show from the 1950s and 1960s sometimes hosted by a future president, Ronald Reagan, and sponsored by Twenty Mule Team Borax.†   (source)
  • Would we please pass forward our poetry anthologies?†   (source)
  • When the piece appeared in an anthology of short fiction, I sent a copy off to Norman Bowker with the thought that it might please him.†   (source)
  • This is an anthology of common misconceptions.†   (source)
  • They had published online an anthology of their best pieces of the last forty years.†   (source)
  • How did you like the Dickens anthology?†   (source)
  • ") Oil the cover of the second notebook, the handwriting of which he was so proud, a script abounding in curly, feminine flourishes, proclaimed the contents to be "The Private Diary of Perry Edward Smith"-an inaccurate description, for it was not in the least a diary but, rather, a form of anthology consisting of obscure facts ("Every fifteen years Mars gets closer.†   (source)
  • Two full paragraphs about the info desk, but you didn't answer the questions I asked you: did the new set of Scientific Monthly Anthologies come in?†   (source)
  • It took an hour for Hollis to get ready, during which time Hassan and Lindsey chatted and watched The Today Show while Colin sat at the far edge of the couch and read one of the honks he'd stuffed in his backpack—a Lord Byron anthology including the poems Lara and Don Juan.†   (source)
  • You'd probably have tried to knock him out with a Norton anthology.†   (source)
  • I had a book contract with Viking Press because Richard Seaver, who was a Viking editor, saw my short stories in Ken Rosen's anthology, The Man to Send Rain Clouds.†   (source)
  • I found it at Zapf's Used Books over by the freeway-It's an anthology, Jacobean Revenge Plays.†   (source)
  • In one of the Cadillacs, sitting next to Morty, I leafed through the Untermeyer American poetry anthology I had brought along, together with my notebook.†   (source)
  • I had an English teacher, he had us buy an anthology and then he got a different one, and every question he ever asked, the answer was there in that other book.†   (source)
  • an anthology of her most popular songs
  • She read an anthology of classic American literature.
    anthology = collection
  • They read poems aloud from Ruth's anthology.†   (source)
  • Her fingernails were pressed into the worn cover of the poetry anthology.†   (source)
  • The class ended with an assignment out of the Norton Anthology for the next class.†   (source)
  • And as it was the third week of June, the Fourth Annual Congress of RAPP was underway, but Mishka was not in attendance, having taken a leave from his post at the university in order to finish his short story anthology (now in five volumes) and to follow his Katerina back to Kiev, where she was teaching in an elementary school.†   (source)
  • The anthology of my life?†   (source)
  • With growing dread and a feeling of slight nausea, he watches as Mr. Lawson distributes the books piled on his desk, giving half a dozen well-worn copies of an anthology, Short Story Classics, to each of the students at the front of the rows.†   (source)
  • Mrs. McBride had told them to find a sonnet they'd like to write a paper on, but as he read the lines of those available to him in his Norton Anthology he kept drifting back to the moment he wished he could take back and do over again.†   (source)
  • Nor are most of the spots where we sprawled on the grass very clear to me—the rocky crannies and glens and secluded byways where we took our greasy brown paper bags and half-pint cartons of Sealtest milk and the Oscar Williams anthology of American verse, much thumb-stained and dog-eared, whereby I attempted to continue Sophie's schooling in poetry that plump Mr. Youngstein had inaugurated months before.†   (source)
  • The story was published in an anthology under the title of Big Boy Leaves Home, but its appearance came too late to influence the Communists who were questioning the use to which I was putting their lives.†   (source)
  • And a few cubicles away a mild, ineffectual, dreamy creature named Ampleforth, with very hairy ears and a surprising talent for juggling with rhymes and meters, was engaged in producing garbled versions — definitive texts, they were called — of poems which had become ideologically offensive, but which for one reason or another were to be retained in the anthologies.†   (source)
  • There are some poems about the accident, classics to be found in every Peruvian anthology, but the real literary monument is Brother Juniper's book.†   (source)
  • The Liturgy,[582] admired for its energy and pathos, is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations, a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,—these collected, too, in long periods, from the prayers and meditations of every saint and sacred writer all over the world.†   (source)
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