2. Noun. (plural of collins) ¹
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Definition of Collinses
1. collins [n] - See also: collins
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collinses
Literary usage of Collinses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dead Secret: A novel by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"... Wilkie collinses Novels. Of all the living writers of English fiction, no one
better understands the art of story-telling than Wilkie Collins. ..."
2. New England in the Life of the World: A Record of Adventure and Achievement by Howard Allen Bridgman (1920)
"The collinses were men of grit and enterprise and speedily built a tanyard, a
grist mill, a lumber mill and opened a distillery and a store. ..."
3. Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery, from 1757 to 1766: From the by Robert Henley Northington, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Robert Henley Eden Henley (1827)
"Each of the Ann collinses insisted that she was the person meant in the residuary
clause, and claimed one third of the residue. ..."
4. The Youth's Keepsake: A Christmas and New Year's Present by George A. Leavitt, Thomas Illman, Robert Walter Weir, Joseph Ives Pease, Sébastien Le Clerc, Thomas Gainsborough (1831)
"Before we left the town, my mother gave the collinses all the assistance she could,
... It proved a most fortunate thing for the poor little collinses, ..."
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