Amos is specially the poor man's prophet, for he was a poor man himself; not a courtier like Isaiah, or a priest like Jeremiah, or a sage like Daniel; but a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit in Tekoa, near Bethlehem, where Amos was born.

An English monarch is now as much the creature of an Act of Parliament as the pettiest tax-gatherer in his realm.

The peace of Villafranca surprised every one, from the Czar on the Neva to the gold-gatherers on the Sacramento.

so blithe and you and I Must be gatherers for all.

His feeling for fresh naturefor hunters in the woods at night or dawn, for vintage-gatherers among their grapes, for festival troops of cavaliers and pages, and for the marriage-dances of young men and maidensyields a delightful gladness to compositions lacking the simplicity of Giotto and the dignity of Masaccio.

The boughs soon tempt the gatherer as before.

Food gatherers like the North American Indians had no machinery and a minimum of implements or weapons.

'His mate is sitting on her eggs, and there are some wood-gatherers about; that's what's worrying the little fellow.'