7 Metaphors for collectors

'The collector is an early bird.

The Mess Cook tells me that Blood Collector and Black Pudding Maker are probably allied trades.

The old book-collectors were a taciturn racethe Bindleys, the Sykeses, the Hebers.

If the collector be a surveyor, he will know best to what purpose a Pocket Sextant, or small Theodolite, is applicable: the measurement of distances, of heights, and of the inclination of strata, etc. ... CONTENTS OF APPENDIX C. GENERAL SKETCH OF THE COAST.

Their husbands are keepers in wine-warehouses, rent-collectors for the agents of old Frenchmen who have been laid up to dry in Paris, custom-house supernumeraries and court-clerks' deputies (for your second-rate Creole is a great seeker for little offices).

"It seems that a collector may be a gentleman," said Miss Caroline, "but Mr. Cohen wasn't even a collector!"

In 1376 Parliament renewed its assault on pontifical pretensions and exactions; and there was cause, since twenty thousand marks, or pounds, were sent annually to Rome from the Pope's collector in England, which collector was a Frenchman,another indignity.

7 Metaphors for  collectors