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  • verb Present participle of assort.

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Examples

  • The Government, which had not yet emancipated itself from the habit of "assorting" its citizens and dividing them into a protected and a tolerated class, set out to elaborate measures for "curbing" the Jews belonging to the latter category.

    History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900

  • The atrocious scheme of "assorting" the Jews is nailed down by Vorontzov as "a bloody operation over a whole class of people," which is threatened "not only with hardships, but also with annihilation through poverty."

    History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900

  • As it is known that assorting local interviews in and around Redbridge would be a good start that you can manage.

    RYAN FRANK’S HACKNEY SHELF | Inhabitat 2006

  • Figures carved in a distant and happier period of the art, glanced from the walls, without assorting happily with the taste in which these were built.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • He considers the mode of assorting the cards in each hand; often counting trump by trump, and honor by honor, through the glances bestowed by their holders upon each.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • "We think Pacific Sunwear has made considerable strides in refreshing the d.e.m.o. store environment by re-assorting the product around key fashion 'themes' versus an edited collection of major brands," he said.

    Pacific Sunwear Puts Wrong Foot Forward In May 2006

  • Menado, and stayed a month in the town in a small house which I hired for the sake of assorting and packing up a large and varied collection which I had brought with me from North Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • It was now a quarter of an hour mayhap, since I had made any chopping noise, because I had been assorting my spars, and tying them in bundles, instead of plying the bill-hook; and the gentle tinkle of the stream was louder than my doings.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Among the goods turned over by me to Dr. Livingstone, while assorting such cloths as I wished to retain for my homeward trip, were —

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • Edna found her friend engaged in assorting the clothes which had returned that morning from the laundry.

    The Awakening 2000

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