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Example sentences for "gathers"

Lexicographically close words:
gatherers; gatherest; gathereth; gathering; gatherings; gation; gator; gators; gatt; gauche
  1. All the knowledge and insight thus gained he gathers together into a history of the spiritual life of mankind.

  2. It is from the belief that such an inner and spiritual life was once realised here on earth, that our own faith gathers strength, and gets guidance in the conflict for the salvation of our souls.

  3. There are many pockets underneath, into which she industriously gathers the harvest of the summer.

  4. The tiny mouse gathers for her winter use several excellent kinds of food.

  5. The field mouse loves this savory vegetable, for she always gathers it more than any other.

  6. She gathers his playthings up, And dreamily puts them by; Children are playing in the meadow, She hears their joyous cry, And the sun is bright.

  7. What she lavishes with one hand, she gathers in with the other.

  8. A rolling stone gathers no moss," which is not bad for the stone, as moss hastens decay.

  9. The interest of this wide and various scriptural scene, gradually gathers itself in towards a single point.

  10. But he is judicially abandoned by the Infinite Father; who expends on him the immeasurable wrath due to an apostate race, gathers up into an hour the lightnings of Eternity, and lets them loose upon that bended head.

  11. The latter returns, discovers his faithlessness, gathers some poisonous flowers, whose juices she drinks, and dies in Gerald's arms just as the furious father appears.

  12. The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire--dreadful trade!

  13. The Roman watch-fires glow Red on the dusk; and harsh Cries a heron flitting slow Over the valley marsh Where the sea-mist gathers low.

  14. To him it is the field in which he labors, and the crops he gathers from it are as diversified in character, and as important for satisfying the demands of the world, as those which the farmer raises.

  15. God himself stretches out the arm of his mercy and his power in substantial manifestations, and gathers the meek company of his worshippers as in the hollow of his hand.

  16. Then throwing himself flat upon the ground, he hastily gathers into his net all the oysters within his reach.

  17. My lesson that day was about the great Shepherd that goes out upon the hills and mountains of sin and gathers in the little lambs that wander away from the sheepfold.

  18. He gathers spoils in every zone, and returns with a rich freight that compensates for all hazards.

  19. The mother gathers her children like Niobe.

  20. With feet all bare He wades the rippling brook, and with a boyish shout Gathers the violets blue, and nodding ferns, That wave a welcome from the other side.

  21. Flag of the sturdy fathers, Flag of the loyal sons, Beneath its folds it gathers Earth's best and noblest ones.

  22. From sunny beaches far away, Yes, in another land, He gathers up, at break of day, His store of shining sand.

  23. Now and then one of them gathers a certain amount of courage and goes without a hat to save his hair, or wears sandals to keep his feet cool, and he is immediately dismissed as mad.

  24. In one part is a chapel fitted up for the Catholics; in another the Church of England gathers a large number of those travellers from Britain, who to their honor carry their religious observances with them.

  25. Our fellow-travellers now begin to diverge to the watering places along the Rhine--to Baden and Homburg and Ems--where so much of the fashion of the Continent gathers every summer.

  26. The University gathers students from different countries, even from Russia.

  27. A rolling stone gathers no moss," was the first proverb which I heard from my father's mouth.

  28. Not because these two little books stand sole and preƫminent, the isolated prophecies of an all but rejected truth, nor because they have created the opinion out of which the President gathers breath for his glorious words.

  29. A certain genial personage gathers around him several times weekly, in a small, low-ceilinged room in the palace, a small but select circle of men on whom be bestows his confidence.

  30. Utterly scorning control, the walls and hedges are nothing to him; he roams where he chooses, as fancy leads, and gathers the food that pleases him.

  31. Around me gathers once again; The same as in life's morning hour, Before my troubled gaze you passed.

  32. The tree has grown, and the world now gathers its bitter fruits.

  33. That which is of God gathers to God; and that which is of the World is owned by the World.


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