Expensive gatherings of my mates I commonly shunned, and all kinds of luxuries I was perfectly a stranger to; and during the time I was employed in cutting the aforementioned quantity of wood, I never was at the expense of six-pence worth of spirits.

A most notable gathering of the clans was the result.

The mighty gathering which Shalah's eyes and mine had beheld in that upland glen was the peril we had foreseen.

This celebrated gathering of wit and whimsicality, founded by Johnson himself in conjunction with Sir J. Reynolds, was the Helicon of London Letters, and the temple which the greatest talker of his age had built for himself, and in which he took care to be duly worshipped.

The first gatherings of any size at which League members met and conferred together were the interstate conferences, held simultaneously in Boston, New York and Chicago, the first in the summer of 1907 and the second in 1908.

The indoor gatherings are smaller, more kindly, less formal, less glittering copies of similar affairs in the mother country.

Pleasant little country gatherings are these race meetings, albeit the bonâ-fide hunter has little chance of distinguishing himself between the flags in any part of England nowadays.

A gathering of somebody or other approved by the British Foreign Office and of somebody or other approved by the French Foreign Office, of somebody with vague powers from America, and so on and so on, will be an entirely ineffective gathering.

Did you strike anything in your fall?" "Why, Betty!" ejaculated the child, "why are you giving me nasty stuff; here are the tansy leaves," and she held up her left hand, where tightly clenched she had kept the herbs, whose gathering on the edge of the treacherous bank had been her undoing.

The water along its shores was green with the fields of wild rice, the gathering of which, just at this season, is an important occupation of the Indian women.

What a tumult, what a gathering of feet is there!

This gathering was a propitious circumstance for my explorations; no mineralogist had ever visited the country.

So the gathering about the stove was in reality a small council of war.

"Gathering of riches is a pleasant torment.

This mutational gathering of the municipal council was the only outward sign of anxiety to be found in this picturesque township.