Usage of "miscellany"

portuguès

encepamento

català

varietat

espanyol

surtido

A collection containing a variety of sorts of things.

varietat

portuguès

florilégio

català

miscel·lània

An anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

miscel·lània

rus

сборник

Publishing term; collection of various pieces of writing by different authors.

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сборник

Ús de miscellany en anglès

Never, in any other spot, was there such a miscellany of people. 
 Sketches and Studies 

Instead there were two other choices, a lot 313 and a miscellany steak. 
 Mezzerow Loves Company 

Carts, carriages everywhere, the most astonishing miscellany of conveyances and horseflesh. 
 The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds 

A voluminous miscellany, composed at various periods, cannot be exempt from slight inadvertencies. 
 Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 

Contrary to our author's custom, the miscellany appeared without either preface or dedication. 
 The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 / With a Life of the... 

He pointed to the miscellany of junk on the table. 
 The Beautiful and Damned 

From the book on etiquette he exhumed a miscellany of useful and peculiar wisdom. 
 Here are Ladies 

She was, it grew more and more apparent, a miscellany bound in a body. 
 The Research Magnificent 

This is a very curious and entertaining miscellany of critical remarks and literary history. 
 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ... 

A world cup miscellany I apologised to England and Mexico. 
 The Irish Times 

Two Security men grimly stood by each camera amid a glittering miscellany of microphones. 
 Space Platform 

Dr. Rajendralal Mitra used to edit an illustrated monthly miscellany. 
 My Reminiscences 

The catalogue was completed; and the miscellany, in 1749, was published in eight quarto volumes. 
 Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 / The Work... 

But too much miscellany of sensation is disquieting; it has an effect analogous to noise. 
 Human Traits and their Social Significance 

Then I shall have an even firmer foundation on which to arrange the-the-theeducational miscellany. 
 Judith of the Plains 

With this last anomalous addition to the miscellany the influence of Sheridan is mainly chargeable. 
 Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — ... 