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Meanings of collect stamps in English

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Usage of collect stamps in English
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Sir Bernard collected deaths as other people collect stamps or books.
Operation mincemeat: how a dead man and a bizarre plan fooled th...
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Why couldn't you collect stamps or coins like a regular person?
The Magician
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Some people collect stamps, Paul Gambino collects post mortem photos from the Victorian era.
Radio NZ
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Do not swell it from mere love of accumulation, as you might collect stamps.
The Making of Arguments
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Horchow collects people the same way others collect stamps.
The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference
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You know how some people like to collect stamps.
The True Citizen: How to Become One
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I've been collecting corpses like some people collect stamps.
Monster Hunter Vendetta
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I drive an 'eighty-five Toyota, I collect stamps, and I wipe my ass with Charmin.
Mine
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He was one of those men who collected women like other men collect stamps or coins.
Wife for hire
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Some folks collect stamps, some folks collect records.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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Yet it is just one of the reasons why Mourinho hoards trophies in the way other people collect stamps.
The Guardian
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Sheila Palmer doesn't collect stamps.
Calamity jayne
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Did you ever collect stamps?
Frank Merriwell's Chums
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People whose conception of what is good in art and literature is inseparable from rarity ought, I submit, to collect stamps.
Mankind in the Making
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He "kept" Sam as men keep chickens and prize cows, and he "collected " Sam as other men collect stamps and china.
The Daffodil Mystery
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But, by Jove, I can hardly stomach a grown man collecting stamps.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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