Literary notes about batch (AI summary)
Literary authors use "batch" to evoke the idea of a cohesive group or set that is produced or delivered collectively. In some works, it refers to physical creations such as baked goods—a batch of scones [1] or pancakes [2]—while in others it designates groups of letters, telegrams, or documents, as when a first batch of display headlines [3] or a batch of telegrams [4] is mentioned. The term is also applied to human groups, whether to describe recruits or a collection of people, thereby lending a sense of simultaneity and material unity to the narrative.
- Missus knocked him up a batch of scones last week.”
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield - In dispatching Fetinia with the necessary instructions, she ordered her to return with a second batch of hot pancakes.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol - It was delicious to see a newspaper again, yet I was conscious of a secret shock when my eye fell upon the first batch of display head-lines.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain - On Burleigh's desk was a batch of telegrams from Department Headquarters.
— from Warrior Gap: A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. by Charles King
