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Collins

noun
1.
English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889).  Synonyms: Wilkie Collins, William Wilkie Collins.
2.
Tall iced drink of liquor (usually gin) with fruit juice.  Synonym: Tom Collins.



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"Collins" Quotes from Famous Books



... by some demon of jealousy, as eye witnesses to my revelling amongst the lips of that fair girlish bevy, kissing and being kissed, loving and being loved; in which case, from all that ever I had read about jealousy, (and I had read a great deal—viz., "Othello," and Collins's "Ode to the Passions,") I was satisfied that, if again captured, I had very little chance for my life. That jealousy was a green-eyed monster, nobody could know better than I did. "O, my lord, beware ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey

... Collins; and the reply was followed by the shuffling sound of several pairs of feet, the owners of which came shambling into the room the next moment, with naked cutlasses in their hands, while one of them carried, in addition, a length of some three ...
— A Middy of the Slave Squadron - A West African Story • Harry Collingwood

... other end of the room talking to Keith Collins, the well-known member for Codrington, whose curious but attractive face was known to all the world through the caricatures of it in 'Punch.' I knew that she saw Derrick, and that he instantly perceived her, and that a miserable sense of ...
— Derrick Vaughan--Novelist • Edna Lyall

... give to the old negro Brad Jackson the sum of $500.00 and intrust him to the care of the young man known as Shawn Collins. ...
— Shawn of Skarrow • James Tandy Ellis

... the Secretary, Miss D.E. Emerson, of New York, was presented, and then missionary addresses were delivered by Mrs. A.A. Myers on "Mountain Work;" by Mrs. Geo. W. Moore on the "Colored People;" and by Miss Collins on "Indians," all of which were listened to with ...
— American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 1, January, 1889 • Various


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