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Hard time getting back into Prague ground to assemble, as in former days
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upgather
Word definitions for upgather in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upgather \Up*gath"er\, v. t. To gather up; to contract; to draw together. [Obs.] Himself he close upgathered more and more. --Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also up-gather , 1580s, from verbal phrase, from up (adv.) + gather (v.). Related: Upgathered ; upgathering .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete English) To gather up; to contract; to draw together.
Usage examples of upgather.
Say, on the noon when the half-sunny hours told that April was nigh, And I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus-border, Fashioned and furbished the soil into a summer-seeming order, Glowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year thereby.
On dithering feet upgathered, more and more, Brown strings towards strings of gray, with bristling spines, All migrants from green fields, intent on mire.
Dropping her head to her upgathered knees, her body rocking stormily, moaning a little, she broke off.
Say, on the noon when the half-sunny hours told that April was nigh, And I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus-border, Fashioned and furbished the soil into a summer-seeming order, Glowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year thereby.
On dithering feet upgathered, more and more, Brown strings towards strings of gray, with bristling spines, All migrants from green fields, intent on mire.