assortment

• In the drawers of the bureau which stood between the windows was an assortment--not scanty for a man who had been living on his sister for a year--of shirts, ties, handkerchiefs, socks, and a lot of miscellaneous junk like shoestrings, lead pencils, snapshots, and empty pipe-tobacco cans. —  Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 01 - Fer-de-Lance
• This assortment, an unbelievably complete portable laboratory, belonged to the homely Monk, and he invariably took it along on expeditions With a skill born of much study, Doc Savage set to work analyzing his water sample. —  036 - Mystery Under the Sea
• A strange assortment, the interviewer said (with all the grace of a double-dose of Whicker's World ). —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
• Ever bond with a rag-tag assortment of colorful characters at the miserable place? —  Belleville News Democrat: Homepage
• The surviving humans flee in the titular ship along with a ragtag assortment of civilian ships, looking for the planet Kobol, which promises to point the way to Earth. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com

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