| 1. | He became very cool and collected all at once. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 2. | I collected it myself at a very great personal risk. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 3. | A group of idle gazers was collected to watch the arrival. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | Ready, collected here, a freer, vast, electric world, to b. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | "Yes, she is alive and more sensible and collected than she was. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | He lay collected in defensive shade. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 7. | I quickly collected some branches, but they were wet and would not burn. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 8. | With tears collected in a golden vas. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 9. | Thus a powerful army was collected in which few names of note were missing. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |