What is "gatherings"

Usage examples of "gatherings".

I had been attending the Gatherings for a number of years with my grandmother and mother, and I was in the early months of my apprenticeship with Lynwen.

Except for Clan Gatherings where there were other medicine women, talking to Creb was the closest she could come to a discussion with a professional colleague.

Unpleasant incidents had been told at Clan Gatherings of chance encounters between the Clan and the Others, and Clan people avoided them.

Clan Gatherings were held once every seven years, and the last one was the summer before the cave-in.

Clan Gatherings were also a time to reestablish old acquaintances, see relatives from other clans, and exchange gossip and stories that would enliven many a cold winter evening for the next few years.

Connachta, there was a celebration of sorts: a riotous revel of the kind common to gatherings of warriors useful, I suppose, for exciting courage and hardihood in men who must fight the next day.

Early on, the grove was the site of the annual Gatherings, but after what came later, it was abandoned and forgotten by most.

Even with the seriousness of what the Order faces right now, I find the Gatherings quite exhilarating.

Their conversation soon shifted from the grave subject of Theron to more entertaining stories of past Gatherings and the adventures Baden and Trahn had shared.

As Baden had predicted, Jessamyn began an extensive discussion of the history of the Gatherings, and the time-honored procedures that the Order would follow over the next few days.

All his composure, all the self-control that he used to conceal his treachery when he attended Gatherings or met with other mages, seemed to disappear when he spoke with Calbyr.

Radomil usually said little during Gatherings, and there seemed to be no clear pattern to his voting on important issues.

He had continued to attend the Gatherings while she was ill, and he saw to the needs of the people he served.

At subsequent Gatherings, Sartol developed his friendship with Niall, feeding it with compliments and confidences.

At eleven years of age she was not considered adult enough to attend these rare gatherings of the clan.