Gathers

Examples

• The boy gathers up his change and has pulled the door open by a leather strap nailed to it for the purpose, when Venus cries out: 'Stop him! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs. Bagnet gathers up her cloak to wipe her eyes on in a very genuine manner, How could you do it? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• One gathers that Pericles was superior in his demeanour; he betrayed at times a contempt for the citizens he served. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And I may get it as sweet and fresh as the wild honey the bee gathers on the moor. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But this proceeds only from the relation to ourselves; which in these cases gathers force by being confined to a few persons. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He's been hung on to, pretty tight, for his shirt's all tore out of the neck-gathers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He no more gathers grapes from thorns or figs from thistles than older men did in old times. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Her forehead has the expanse of a cloud, and is paler than the early moon, risen long before dark gathers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He makes social movements conscious of themselves, expresses their needs, gathers their power and then thrusts them behind the inventor and the technician in the task of actual achievement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As water flows over the land, it gathers filth and disease germs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Every good, true, vigorous feeling I have gathers impulsively round him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Typist: Molly