When he collected himself he ran to Stas, with face ashen from terror, and, kneeling at his feet, began to repeat in a voice out of breath: Sir, I was kind to you!
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
"He is perfectly collected and sensible now," said Lady Dorothea, in her former calm tone.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
But books of the third generation of German or Italian printers, men like Flach, for instance, at Strassburg, or Plannck at Rome, should not be collected under the idea that they are in any true sense of the word incunabula.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard