I saw how it was; she took his silences for intellectual meditation, his gallery, his library, his smatterings for expressions of a cultivated personality.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers
No, no; I may pick up a few smatterings, or I may not, but there is one thing certain: I mean to make a friend of you, Ruth-yes, a great big bosom friend.
"The Rebel of the School"
Mrs. L. T. Meade
But I shall only have smatterings of things at this rate!
"Stray Thoughts for Girls"
Lucy H. M. Soulsby