gather up

• “Tied to her sofa she might be, and Lucy Ellen free to go about and gather up the news – free to go into Marbury and have tea at the Ram – but all the same, once in a way it was she who scored.”

  The Key

• “Certainly before the end of Henry VI's reign the first impulse of the Italian renascence -- the impulse to gather up the materials of a more catholic and liberal knowledge -- had been transmitted to England.”

  Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages

• “So what he did was gather up the three filled tumblers in his long fingers, still the convulsive twitching of his whiskers and lips, and return to the pair, a pleasant expression cemented in place.”

  The False Mirror

• ““Enemy steering between southeast and south,” he signaled, and then turned away to gather up Monmouth and Otranto and join Good Hope, still out of sight to the west.”

  Castles of Steel

• “I watched a wardrobe man come in and gather up the uniforms, toss them like rags in a corner, and replace them on the rack with blue and gold-braided uniforms marked “Custer” with my name on them.”

  Simon & Schuster: An American Life

• “I therefore insist you join me, as my guests, for supper at Ainslie's Tavern, as soon as you can gather up your things.”

  Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles

• “George Augustus Robinson was back on mainland Tasmania during most of the early 1830s, making further expeditions to gather up those Aborigines who remained at large and becoming famed for his efforts as “The Conciliator.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

• “He saw Rose gather up the full skirt of her house-coat and run across the lawn, and he saw her father set down his creel and rod, take off his hat and wait for her, his bald head gleaming.”

  Scales of Justice

• “The poor little working-girl who had found strength to gather up the fragments of her life, and build herself a shelter with them, seemed to Lily to have reached the central truth of existence.”

  Simon & Schuster: The House of Mirth

• “I had Aiden gather up everything he could on Dr. Kenner.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Ark

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