Meanings of miscellaneous assortment in English

Such a miscellaneous assortment of dry goods as that cart held!

A miscellaneous assortment of the goods, among other things, revolutions are bound to deliver.

On each nail hung a miscellaneous assortment of equipment.

There is as well a miscellaneous assortment of ghosts.

Tells about the jury, refined when compared with the miscellaneous assortment which usually occupies the box.

She stuffed the money into a drawer of the table with a miscellaneous assortment of less valuable things.

It is generally filled with a miscellaneous assortment of tobacco, pipes, bread crumbs, letters, and a lot of useless souvenirs.

They have preferred to devise methods of their own, and so have created a miscellaneous assortment of systems, good, bad, and indifferent.

About five that night they returned covered with grime and dust, but loaded down with a miscellaneous assortment of everything under the sun.

There were cans of paint, a mop, two brooms, tin and wooden pails, scrub brushes, soap and a miscellaneous assortment of useful articles.

Before, however, these Headquarters were reached, a miscellaneous assortment of gas shells landed in the neighbourhood of the trench, and the gas-masks were donned.

I struck a light and deposited the candle on the operating-table on which lay scattered a miscellaneous assortment of the strange instruments I employed.

They found emeralds and sapphires the value of which they did not attempt to estimate; and, besides these, a miscellaneous assortment of semiprecious stones.

The Quartermaster Sergeant spread a waterproof sheet on the ground, and commenced throwing a miscellaneous assortment of straps, buckles, and other paraphernalia into it.

A worm-eaten, steel-clasped casket, dragged out of a corner, frowned on the upholsterer's brand-new toilet-table, and held a miscellaneous assortment of combs, hairpins, and brushes.

Miscellaneous assortments were daily coming in, generally without any mark on the box by which to learn what were the contents.