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gather in

v. fold up; "take in the sails" [syn: take in]

Usage examples of "gather in".

Soft lights had come to life, showing them the line of dumpy-looking people in gorgeous clothing, stepping out to gather in the doorway of the temple.

As his hand arced downward, fire seemed to gather in his palm, then spring off his fingertips straight toward the spectral magician.

When you have been assigned your duties and your quarters, you will gather in the slaves' hall for your meal.

They tend to gather in small packs within the tribes and are pretty harmless.

Some of them bore wounds, but the invaders hadn't bothered to gather in any of the severely injured.

If asked, she would say that it had something to do with ladies sewing things, for on Sundays the girls usually gather in the big kitchen after lunch to do their mending.

Once her hand rose to gather in the errant strands of hair, and once she walked to the end of the timber track to look down into the river valley, in the direction of Kö.

The sergeant yelled for all the boats dispersed on the lake to gather in on the area.

I was even impatient for tomorrow to come, I so wanted to gather in that great triumph and be the center of all the nation’.

In such a case, though the sisters thought best to gather in their church and abide the issue there, trusting that even these maraudersfor I must tell you many were already drunk and wildwould respect their cloth, and do them no more harm than to steal, perhaps, their more valuable furnishingsthe sisters, I say, held that faith required them to remain, but the Lady Ermina thought otherwise, and would slip away out of the town, as so many did, and make away into some safe and distant refuge.

In such a case, though the sisters thought best to gather in their church and abide the issue there, trusting that even these marauders—.