Both Uses of
assortment
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Groceries, toy-shops, drygoods stores, with their immense panes of plate-glass, their gorgeous fixtures, their vast and complete assortments of merchandise, in which fortunes had been invested; and those noble mirrors at the farther end of each establishment, doubling all this wealth by a brightly burnished vista of unrealities!†
Chpt 3
- The remainder of the garden presented a well-selected assortment of esculent vegetables, in a praiseworthy state of advancement.†
Chpt 6 *
Definition:
a collection containing a variety of a sort of a thing