12919 examples of gathering in sentences

During this time they landed often, and sometimes succeeded in catching a few fish or wild fowl; but supplied their wants principally by gathering the cockle-grass, which was growing in abundance on every part of the shore.

While some of the men were busy in gathering sorrel from the rocks, and Greene was surrounded by the natives, with whom he was trading, Pricket, who was lying in the stern of the boat, observed one of the savages coming in at the bows.

I am daily offering my prayers to God for this sinful land of ours, over which his judgments seem to be gathering; and my strength is sometimes so exhausted with those strong cries and tears, which I pour out before God on this occasion, that I am hardly able to stand when I arise from my knees.

In a moment or two she looked eagerly round her, as if gathering in her breath; and then she covered her head and sobbed.

When we had got it overboard, the flames were gathering far and wide.

I heard your angry words as I was gathering herbs, and saw you fling your book away.

The gathering of vegetables from the kitchen garden, the dressing of poultry and the baking of relays' of hot breads at meal times likewise amplified the culinary routine.

The hiring of slaves by one citizen to another prevailed to some extent in country as well as town, and the hiring of them to themselves was particularly notable in the forest labors of gathering turpentine and splitting shingles; but slave hire in both its forms was predominantly an urban resort.

The Syndicalist movement, sabotage in France, and Larkinism in Great Britain, are, from the point of view of social stability, the most sinister demonstrations of the gathering anger of the labouring classes with representative institutions.

Yet the politicians go on in an almost complete disregard of this gathering storm.

And Parliament would become a gathering of prominent men instead of a means to prominence.

Its leading articles are written by Mr. Arthur Brisbane, the son of one of the Brook Farm Utopians, that gathering in which Hawthorne and Henry James senior, and Margaret Fuller participated, and in which the whole brilliant world of Boston's past, the world of Emerson, Longfellow, Thoreau, was interested.

It may have appealed to the young Rockefeller, clerk in a Chicago house, that to be rich was itself a supreme end; in the first flush of the discovery that he was immensely rich, he may have thanked Heaven as if for a supreme good, and spoken to a Sunday school gathering as if he knew himself for the most favoured of men.

There is no peace in the gathering again till some man of firm and quiet mind turns to his neighbour and says, "But after all there is no doubt that whether we like it or not prohibition is coming."

THE GATHERING OF THE NATIONS.

Nothing more than the gathering up of the fragments of a broken vase to patch it up again.

Everywhere there was the hum of industry, a contented sound like the buzzing of bees intent upon gathering honey.

A most notable gathering of the clans was the result.

" But Perry, peering through the uncertain eyes of the camel, saw only her face, radiant, animated and glowing with excitement, and her arms and shoulders, whose mobile, expressive gestures made her always the outstanding figure in any gathering.

He could feel the gathering of enthusiasm, exhilaration in the atmospherepent-up emotion which on the morrow would burst like a thunderclap.

Do you think I am going to do anyth" Deacon's voice, which had been gathering in intensity, broke suddenly.

Deacon's voice was thick with gathering effort.

A gathering of birds.

A gathering of birds.

Each unit of that gathering felt himself the better for the display of it.

12919 examples of  gathering  in sentences