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  • For a space, -- then the brows ingathered, the lips drew firm, and she put Frona from her.

    CHAPTER 19 2010

  • The Nazis even ingathered Jews from the far flung corners of Europe in order to gas them in Auschwitz and other murder camps.

    Alan Dershowitz: Israel Bans A UN Rapporteur Who Compares the Jewish State to Nazi Germany 2009

  • The Nazis ingathered tens of thousands of Jews (including babies, women, the elderly) from far flung corners of the world -- from the Island of Rhodes from Salonika and from other obscure locations -- in order to gas them at Auschwitz and at other death camps.

    Alan Dershowitz: Hezbollah's Goal: "Going After [the Jews] Worldwide" 2008

  • Annie, and John Fry took a pick to keep him safe; but she curbed to and fro with her strong forearms rising like springs ingathered, waiting and quivering grievously, and beginning to sweat about it.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • There was rich banqueting in his great hall when his harvest was ingathered, and Zeus and all the other gods feasted on the fat burnt-offerings, but no gift was set apart for the virgin child of

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • Nevertheless, she outraged not, though her eyes were frightening Annie, and John Fry took a pick to keep him safe; but she curbed to and fro with her strong forearms rising like springs ingathered, waiting and quivering grievously, and beginning to sweat about it.

    The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years.

    Apologia Diffidentis 1905

  • Within its depths I saw ingathered, bound by love in one volume, the scattered leaves of all the universe; substance and accidents and their relations, as though together fused, after such fashion that what I tell of is one simple flame.

    Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 1902

  • For a space, -- then the brows ingathered, the lips drew firm, and she put Frona from her.

    A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896

  • It was finally decided that there should be a quiet little prayer-meeting in the room where the women sat, in behalf of Mr. 'Lihu's soul; but before all the preliminary steps had been taken, and the men and youth noiselessly ingathered, Mr.' Lihu's breathing had ceased, without a parting pang or gasp, and the tide was at its full.

    Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

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