What is "gathers"

Usage examples of "gathers".

In darkness, and the pure and spangling snow Gleams faintly through the gloom that gathers round!

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.

His spirit gathers peace in its new state from the sense that, though late, his exertions were not made in vain, and in the progress of the liberty he so fondly loved.

The rose has fled from his wan lips, and there That kiss is dead, which Venus gathers yet.

Whilst the cold hand gathers its scanty fruit, Whose chillness struck a canker to its root.

Thus it came that, long after piracy ceased to be allowed at home, it continued in those far-away seas with unabated vigor, recruiting to its service all that lawless malign element which gathers together in every newly opened country where the only law is lawlessness, where might is right and where a living is to be gained with no more trouble than cutting a throat.