But it was impossible to write of Charlotte after Mrs. Gaskell; impossible to say more of Emily than Madame Duclaux has said; impossible to add one single little fact to the vast material, so patiently amassed, so admirably arranged by Mr. Clement Shorter.

His habitual shrewdness never deserted him, and from small beginnings he gradually amassed a moderate fortune.

Kirk had been privately amassing landmarks.

" Then, turning toward Li Chia, she continued: "During those many years when I lived in a disorder of the dust and breeze, I secretly amassed these treasures, that they might some day rescue my body.

Every author thus silently amasses a store of empirical rules, furnished by his own practice, and confirmed by the practice of others.

I suspect he had come out into the strange world of the North with large, loose notions that the fortune he needed might be speedily amassed.

Accordingly, I believe, I read almost all the old romances, old plays, and epic poetry, in that formidable collection, and no doubt was unconsciously amassing materials for the task in which it has been my lot to be so much employed.

He seized his opportunities, the opportunities that were given by the application of the steam-engine to ocean traffic, and by the birth of railway locomotion in the wealthy but undeveloped United States of America, and consequently he amassed an immense fortune.

I have workedI am richI have amassed wealthonly for her.