miscellany

• “Magius, 1664 "; then, pell-mell, there were: _A curious and edifying miscellany concerning church bells_ by Dom Rémi Carré; another _Edifying miscellany_, anonymous; a _Treatise of bells_ by Jean-Baptiste Thiers, curate of Champrond and Vibraye; a ponderous tome by an architect named”

  Là-bas

• “I was distinguishing what was indisputably a mass-market phenomenon-opera and the fantasies spun off from opera that were the core of so-called miscellany programs-from the serious music written for a composer's pupils or the connoisseurs who patronized aristocratic salons.”

  City Journal

• “A miscellany is a collection of various literary productions kinds (poems, letters, essays, illustrations) gathered in a single volume, often united thematically rather than formally.”

  The Millions

• “Recall that the president requested $17.0 billion for DOE and $4.8 billion for the "miscellany" (for a subtotal of an additional $21.8 billion).”

  Winslow T. Wheeler: The 2007 Defense Budget May Not Be What You Think

• “This volume is condensed with many thoughts, and to some may seem more of a "miscellany" than what we intend it should be.”

  Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses; With Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishops' Wives

• “Consequently, this book consists of two sections - an autobiographical account of Waldrop's life, followed by a kind of miscellany of Michael Revere's writings (essays, poetry, journals, etc.).”

  Smoky Mountain News

• “In my opinion, the "miscellany" approach practiced by most literary magazines -- by which the "best fiction available" is printed, with little or no indication of what makes it the "best" -- makes all too many of them useless; I can only make my way through a few of them, trying to find the "best" in a scattershot fashion, before I put them aside and conclude it just isn't worth my time (and sometimes money) to prospect for fiction in this way.”

  Writing and Publishing

• “miscellany," or hodgepodge of prayers, poems and ritual law, probably written around the end of the 15th century.”

  The Jewish Week (BETA)

• “These songs gradually developed a concomitant form of dialogue styled saturæ, a term denoting "miscellany", and derived perhaps from the _Satura lanx_, a charger filled with the first-fruits of the year's produce, which was offered to Bacchus and Ceres. [”

  English Satires

• “This arena, inaccessible to the public for 145 years, now hosts a miscellany of events, from cancan dancers to choirs and theatre festivals.”

  The Guardian: 10 of the best arts venues in south London

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