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Example sentences for "could gather"

  • It is true that, with this force and that which you can bring, he could not hope to capture the Bairds' hold; but together you could carry sword and fire through his district, before he could gather a force to meet you in the field.

  • Points were fixed upon where each should assemble, with what force he could gather; thence to march to any threatened place, or to assemble at Ludlow Castle, Mortimer being the warden of the marches along that line of the border.

  • I told him these men are not on the force, but we could gather them up if he agreed to pay them.

  • No, sir; all I could gather up at that time were there.

  • From what I could gather, Donegal was not a hopeful region.

  • This, as far as I could gather, was the subject of the somewhat upbraiding letter which had arrived from headquarters.

  • This was all the news I could gather, but it was enough to confirm my worst suspicions.

  • From the best information we could gather, General Johnston had about thirty or forty thousand men.

  • He knew the country well, and as his loyalty was vouched for I asked him to go into the enemy's camp, which I believed to be near Lafayette, and, bring me such information as he could gather.

  • While Sherman was waiting at Vicksburg for the arrival of Hurlbut with his surplus men, he sent out scouts to ascertain the position and strength of the enemy and to bring back all the information they could gather.

  • A perfect inundation of vituperative accusation, however, now poured in, and I could gather no more.

  • This was somewhat more pretentious, and, from what I could gather, represented a parting scene between a lover and his mistress.

  • I cannot say how he acquitted himself, but I could gather that a very lively altercation ensued, and it seemed to me as though she resolutely refused to subject herself to any further ordeals of what academicians call a "private view.

  • Of his modus operandi only this much I could gather:-- "Pears's shaving sticks will give you little taste and lots of lather.

  • So far as I could gather, it had been in existence from time immemorial--whence I concluded that it was at least a century old-- and during that time no one had ever been known to escape from it.

  • Most of all he dwelt on the shortcomings of one of his subjects, who, from what I could gather, had been paralyzing the executive.

  • From what I could gather, the word "obligation" infuriated Liosha.

  • Late in the spring we were to return to Gizhiga with all the information which we could gather relative to the country between that point and the Arctic Circle.

  • The information which we could gather at Gizhiga with regard to the interior of the country was scanty, indefinite, and unsatisfactory.

  • In the same excited mood, but repressing it with all the energy I could gather, I returned to the Hall and made my way to the library.

  • As far as I could gather, my companion was not acquainted with the man whom I had so foolishly allowed to escape from the house.

  • That was all the information I could gather in that quarter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could catch; could desire; could discern; could find; could form; could haue; could live; could look; could manage; could name; could not bring himself; could not help feeling; could not help laughing; could only; could procure; could rise; could say; could speak; could succeed; could summon; could swear; could swim; could write; hear what; pictorial representation; three distinct