"Gather up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... postponed to something else. Then what was it? He lurked and watched, every now and then in the greatest risk of being detected, but without success. He had again and again to retreat in haste, a proceeding rendered the more difficult that he had to gather up his string as he returned upon its course. It was not that he was afraid of the goblins, but that he was afraid of their finding out that they were watched, which might have prevented the discovery at which he aimed. Sometimes his haste had to ...
— The Princess and the Goblin • George MacDonald
... around us did, the fulfilment of the denunciations that these cities of Moab and Ammon should remain as cities "without inhabitants"—"not a man to dwell therein"—and "driven out every man, right forth, and none shall gather up him that wandereth"—"desolate" and ...
— Byeways in Palestine • James Finn
... asked Amy of Betty as they went into the kitchen to gather up the picnic baskets. "I'm getting so fond of her it will just hurt like everything to ...
— The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House • Laura Lee Hope
... replied Andy. "Quick! Gather up some pieces of dry wood. I have some paper, and my pipe lighter. We must fight ...
— Five Thousand Miles Underground • Roy Rockwood
... of the most prominent representatives of the populace, with companions, avowedly to seize a certain position; but they had the man slain by the party that had been sent out with him. The report was brought into camp that the man with others had been killed by the foe, and the soldiers went out to gather up the dead bodies. They found not one corpse belonging to the enemy but many of their own race, whom Sicius had killed in his own defence when they attacked him. And when they saw that the dead were ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio
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