collectings

Updated: May 8, 2025

You'd like me to say that I knew nothing of the botanizings, and the herb collectings, and the picknickings there he, he! you sly dog! Perhaps you'd like to tempt Father Wynn further, and make him swear he knows nothing of his daughter disguising herself in a duster and meeting another young man isn't it another young man? all alone, eh? Perhaps you want poor old Father Wynn to say No.

Bret Harte - In the Carquinez Woods

Roy and the Dawsons or other contending spirits, were lost sight of, hushed to rest in the absorbing calamity which had overtaken Rachel; to say that occupations were partially suspended, that there ensued a glorious interim of idleness, for the female portion of it of conferences in gutters and collectings in houses; to say that Rachel was sincerely mourned, old Frost sympathised with, and the supposed assailant vigorously sought after, would be sufficient to indicate that public curiosity was excited to a high pitch; but all this was as nothing compared to the excitement that was to ensue upon the evidence given at the coroner's inquest.

Mrs. Henry Wood - Verner's Pride

You'd like me to say that I knew nothing of the botanizings, and the herb collectings, and the picnickings there he-he! you sly dog! Perhaps you'd like to tempt Father Wynn further and make him swear he knows nothing of his daughter disguising herself in a duster and meeting another young man isn't it another young man? all alone, eh?

Bret Harte - Frontier Stories