gather

• The youngsters also would gather, and amuse themselves with games or the telling of tales of a more romantic cast. —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
• Thank you very much;" and the water went on saying "_Gather gather, all right, dip dip After thinking how best to greet it, I went back to the oak, stood in front of it and said (of course baring my head Oak, I humbly desire your good leave to gather the green plant which grows between your roots. —  The Five Jars
• The divers are paid according to the number of shells they gather, and not by fixed wages. —  The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
• He knows that the four winds will bring drifting sand to the spot where his body lies; it will gather and gather, as it does against any excrescence, until his body is well covered. —  There was a King in Egypt
• I am to gather, then, that you believe that which my husband advises himself to tell you? —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance

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