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Literary notes about items (AI summary)

In many of these works, the word “items” denotes both tangible objects and intangible details. In some instances, it refers to concrete commodities, as with “luxury-trade items” [1] or various “food items” [2], while elsewhere it describes financial or ledger entries—“a written statement of the items of account” [3]—or everyday expenses like “Sometimes items relate to their refreshment” [4]. Moreover, authors often use “items” for bits of information, such as “items of news” [5] or “society items” [6]. Across these diverse contexts, “items” consistently signals the constituent parts—whether goods, stories, or accounts—that together shape the narrative world.
  1. But they’re luxury-trade items.
    — from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone
  2. These various food items seemed to be rich in phosphorous, and I thought that they, too, must have been of marine origin.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  3. In settling with him he required a written statement of the items of account, but never disputed one of them.
    — from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman
  4. Paid for a sugar loaf for the Lord Bishop 15's 10'd" Sometimes items relate to their refreshment:— "1593.
    — from English Villages by P. H. Ditchfield
  5. A solid wedge of Gruyere cheese, which had been wrapped in a newspaper, bore the imprint: “Items of News,” on its rich, oily surface.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  6. “He has told me just the things I want to know,” she said; “all the society items and all about the royal family.
    — from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

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