Assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence

Usage examples of collation.

Dawson mark the findspot and deposit the pin in a clear polythene bag marked with the excavation number, Nora felt a small part of herself resisting the very idea of collection, collation, enumeration.

James lay in the arms of the nurserymaid and Aunt Elizabeth, who was glad to get off her feet, and the little boys stared in wide-awake astonishment at the glowing lanterns and ignored all their well-wishers, who moved on speedily to the collation table for cider and ham anyway.

We joined a crowd going into a tent and there we saw my other old school acquaintance, Porker Plumstead, sitting mournfully in a corner with a cold collation on his knees.

While the party partook of a collation of fruit and coffee, the horns, placed in a distant part of the woods, where an echo sweetened and prolonged their melancholy tones, broke softly on the stillness of the scene.

I was grateful to my charmers for having thought of my stomach, but as I had purposely made a late and heavy meal I determined to defer the consumption of my cold collation till a later hour.

She had taken care to get me a little collation, which looked delicious, but which I could not touch, my appetite lying in another quarter.

At supper-time Clementine, accompanied by a servant, brought me a delicate cold collation, and told me that the bank had won.

He placed a magnificent collation before the Electress, and sang a song of his own composition, accompanying himself on the piano.

If my estimate of the character of Smith is not that which his biographers have entertained, and differs from his own candid opinion, I can only plead that contemporary evidence and a collation of his own stories show that he was mistaken.

Patrum, his four first books of Institutes, and the twenty-four Collations or Conferences.

Ladies come hither sometimes in the summer with collations, and smugglers make them storehouses for clandestine merchandise.

The alcove called `the buttery' had a cold-table collation laid out ample for forty guests, with a few hot dishes on the end - roast pig with apple in mouth, baked peacock with feathers restored, a few such tidbits.

He had prepared a collation for me in the Barnwell parlour, and he too ordered his shopman to “come out of the gangway” as my sacred person passed.

Solomon Pell in court, regaling himself, business being rather slack, with a cold collation of an Abernethy biscuit and a saveloy.

As the last sanap was removed in preparation for the final collation, all entremets disappeared and an orchestra played soft music from the gallery.