What is "foregather"

Usage examples of "foregather".

Towards the pierhead, where anglers foregather when the tide is in, he finds a well-sheltered bench overlooking the sea, and sits down.

But no one knew then that he had foregathered with Niclaus and lived in his prau.

They had first foregathered in the cold grey dawn at the frontier line, where the presiding eagle takes on an extra head and Teuton lands pass from Hohenzollern to Habsburg keeping--and where a probing official beak requires to delve in polite and perhaps perfunctory, but always tiresome, manner into the baggage of sleephungry passengers.

Vienna the travellers had again foregathered at the trainside and paid one another the compliment of settling instinctively into the same carriage.

So we took a short ride to break in, and crawled through thick jungle to make the acquaintance of a venerable moss-grown idol, where had foregathered a German trader and a Norwegian captain to estimate the weight of said idol, and to speculate upon depreciation in value caused by sawing him in half.

Before the operation you and the other medical men foregathered in here.

They foregathered in silence in the safe, hollowed heart of the bowl, where nothing could fall any farther, and ranged the scattered fringes of a desert of tumbled stones, through a pall of acrid dust that still silted down thickly on every blade of grass between the rocks, until there was no green left.

The country citizens of this pint-sized planet were foregathering and cluttering fearfully while they waited for the bigwigs from the city to get here and do something about the sudden giant.

Touching our Phoenix Rangers' nuisance at the meeting of the waitresses, the daintylines, Elsies from Chelsies, the two legglegels in blooms, and those pest of parkies, twitch, thistle and charlock, were they for giving up their fogging trespasses by order which we foregathered he must be raw in cane sugar, the party, no, Jimmy MacCawthelock?

The scientists foregathered there were left with his corpse (which was neatly taken care of by the CIA and the Effa Bee Eye) and that strange and awful dying declaration: It's eternity in there.

Well, I have a warning for you, Miss Persis Rooke, in the places where Ralph Grillon foregathers with his kind you would be a nice tempting pigeon meeting hawks.

There was a club in those days in Papeete, where the pearlers, traders, captains, and South Sea adventurers foregathered.