The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

De Revolutionibus is not just a collection of facts and techniques.

The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

An analysis of the fiscal tax collection year calendars throughout the state indicates that transition may not be as painful as is commonly thought.

The Medical Illustration Service is responsible for the collection, publication, exhibition, and file of medical illustration material of medico-military importance to the Armed Forces.

At some cities, this pick-up and delivery service is without additional charge, and, if you are budget-wise, when you are planning your itinerary, you will take advantage of these free delivery and collection stations in major cities within the larger European countries.

There is the free intra-city `` rent it here, leave it there '' service, as an example, the free delivery and collection at the airport, dockside or your hotel, luggage racks, touring documents and information and other similar services.

In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.

This is a delightfully motley collection.

It is a collection with a custom-design look, offering simplicity with warmth, variety and vitality.

The Drexel collection, called Composite, to be shown by Titche's offers a realistic approach to decorating, a mature modern that is a variation of many designs.

Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.

To set up a co-operative library system, the law requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as the nucleus, and the system is organized around it.

Nassau is currently building a central collection of reference materials in its Hempstead headquarters, which will reach its goal of 100,000 volumes by 1965.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

Basic reference tools are the backbone of the collection, but there is also specialization in science and technology, an indicated weakness in local libraries.

The entire headquarters collection is available to the patrons of all members on interlibrary loans.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean, or simply the mean or average when the context is clear, is the central tendency of a collection of numbers taken as the sum of the numbers divided by the size of the collection.

Le Fanu's short story collection In a Glass Darkly ( 1872 ) includes the superlative vampire tale Carmilla, which provided fresh blood for that particular strand of the Gothic and influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

The Welsh prose tale Culhwch and Olwen ( c. 1100 ), included in the modern Mabinogion collection, has a much longer list of more than 200 of Arthur's men, though Cei and Bedwyr again take a central place.

The 9th-century Historia Brittonum also refers to this tale, with the boar there named Troy ( n ) t. Finally, Arthur is mentioned numerous times in the Welsh Triads, a collection of short summaries of Welsh tradition and legend which are classified into groups of three linked characters or episodes in order to assist recall.

Othello is an adaptation of the Italian writer Cinthio's tale " Un Capitano Moro " (" A Moorish Captain ") from his Gli Hecatommithi ( 1565 ), a collection of one hundred tales in the style of Boccaccio's Decameron.

They rejected many tales they collected because of their similarity to tales by Charles Perrault, which they thought proved they were not truly German tales ; Sleeping Beauty survived in their collection because the tale of Brynhildr convinced them that the figure of the sleeping princess was authentically German.

Panfilo is the storyteller of the first tale of the entire collection, which is also the first tale ridiculing then-current practices of the Roman Catholic Church ( in this case canonization by the people ).

This tale is originally found in Hitopadesha, a Sanskrit collection of tales.

The tale was quite common during the medieval era, appearing in Barlaam and Josaphat ( written in the 8th century ), an exemplum of Jacques de Vitry ( 13th century ) and Cento Novelle Antiche ( also 13th century ), The Seven Wise Masters, and Italian collection of fables called Fiori di Virtu ( 14th century ), Odo of Shirton's " De heremita iuvene " ( 12th century ), and a French fabliau ( 13th century ).

They went on to publish works about Danish and Irish folk tales and Norse mythology, while continuing to edit the German folk tale collection.

What they do show is that the fairy tale has ancient roots, older than the Arabian Nights collection of magical tales ( compiled circa 1500 AD ), such as Vikram and the Vampire, and Bel and the Dragon.

The Brothers Grimm rejected several tales for their collection, though told orally to them by Germans, because the tales derived from Perrault, and they concluded they were thereby French and not German tales ; an oral version of Bluebeard was thus rejected, and the tale of Briar Rose, clearly related to Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, was included only because Jacob Grimm convinced his brother that the figure of Brynhildr, from much earlier Norse mythology, proved that the sleeping princess was authentically Germanic folklore.

His first fairy tale, " Ting-a-ling ," was published that year in The Riverside Magazine ; his first book collection appeared in 1870.

It is a central theme and framing device of the collection of stories known as the One Thousand and One Nights, wherein the queen Scheherazade, who is facing a morning execution on the orders of her husband, King Shahryar, devises the solution of telling him a story but leaving it at a cliffhanger, thus forcing the king to postpone her execution to hear the rest of the tale.

* The Rose and the Beast: Francesca Lia Block wrote a version of this fairy tale in her collection of adaptations of fairy tales.

Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, known as the Brothers Grimm, drawing from eleven sources included the tale in their collection " Deutsche Sagen ", first published in 1816.

In this collection appeared the stories Der Runenberg, Die Elfen, Der Pokal, and the dramatic fairy tale, Fortunat.

Andersen's tale is based on a story from the Libro de los ejemplos ( or El Conde Lucanor, 1335 ), a medieval Spanish collection of fifty-one cautionary tales with various sources such as Aesop and other classical writers and Persian folktales, by Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena ( 1282 – 1348 ).

* Angela Carter reinterpreted the tale for her collection of short stories The Bloody Chamber.

" Malory did not invent the stories in this collection ; he translated and compiled them ... Malory in fact translated Arthurian stories that already existed in thirteenth-century French prose ( the so-called Old French Vulgate romances ) and compiled them together with at least one tale from Middle English sources ( the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur ) to create this text.

" Rapunzel " (; ) is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales .< ref > Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household Tales ( English translation by Margaretmm Hunt ), 1884, " Rapunzel "

Gogol's tale contains the elements of witchcraft common to other stories in the Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka collection, but does not feature a witches ' sabbath.

This tale is in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, but was published originally in 1904 in the Strand Magazine and Collier's.