He thought over his life as he remembered it, his dull life of slavery, and saw with bitter clearness how the clouds were gathering round him and his kind.
It was an ominous gathering for those in high places!
While they had been speaking they had been gathering great armfuls of fallen twigs and branches, and soon they went slowly down the ride with these.
Moreover, he purposed to carry an armful of dry sticks, so that he might appear as if he were gathering kindling wood.
They are now visited only for the purpose of gathering archil, which production is, however, less sought after, since so many other lichens of the north of Europe have been found to yield materials proper for dyeing.
Hunters do not ascend so high on the ridges of mountains; and in these countries journeys are not undertaken for such purposes as gathering alpine plants, carrying a barometer to an elevated point, or examining the nature of rocks.
They begin to gather them in the fourth month, and this first gathering generally terminates in the space of a few days.
Let a man stand on a tub in the midst of a gathering of a hundred Englishmen and proceed to denounce and abuse England; those individuals at once become a crowd.
And the higher the degree of this mental homogeneity of any gathering of men, the more readily do they form a psychological crowd and the more striking and intense are the manifestations of collective life.
But men were gathering round, and a workman who had heard the raised voices, and divined the row, ran out of the works, with his apron full of blades, and his heart full of mischief.
They were summoned to this novel social gathering by one who justly claimed recognition as an employer “who set a high value upon whatever is calculated to foster kindly feelings between man and man.
It was a gathering that Scotland might be proud of, whether we assign to the host or the guests the chief prominence.
Time enough if he slipped into the great hall when the company was gathering for the feast.
When the fight was over, and either side was gathering up the dead and wounded from the plain, they came upon Paris among the rest; but till they had drawn off his helmet they knew him not, for he was dressed as a common soldier.
That night thegathering about the board was scantier than it had been for many a long day.
Gathering together his instruments and some clay, he set to work to model the figure of his dream.
So she sat in thegathering gloom with his head upon her lap.
While the clouds of war were thus gathering thick around Orleans, within its walls a synod of the reformed churches of France had assembled on the twenty-fifth of April, to deliberate of matters relating to their religious interests.
Montpellier, gathering of Huguenots for worship in the large school-rooms, i.
Gathering new strength from day to day, it reigned at length supreme in the fated city.
Throughout this scene the clouds have been gathering round the mountain-top.
Amid the gathering storm-clouds the two men meet upon a rocky ridge.
Alone amid the gathering shades of evening, Wolfram sings the exquisite song to the evening star which is the most famous passage in the opera.
Every scene in the drama is tinged with the same mysterious influence, until at the close the spirit-voices chant their primeval hymn over the bodies of the lovers in the gathering night.
The principal gathering was in Zion's Church, where more than three thousand colored people were crowded together.
From the midst of a crowd of people gathering on the deck ahead of us, a squeaky voice piped out, "What's the news?
While she spoke she was gathering up a lot of parcels which were lying scattered over the table.
She put out her candle, drew back her curtains, and looked out into the gathering darkness.
Under the gathering twilight the town was unexpectedly attractive.
Dawn made itself felt in a gathering whiteness eastward over the river and an intermittent cheeping in the near-by trees.
I reached maturity under the impression that I was gathering the experience to order my life for happiness.
The Bronx--the houses gathering and gleaming in the sun, which was falling now through wide refulgent skies and tumbling caravans of light down into the streets.
Gathering a piece of sheet about her Gloria dove away from sight, shutting her eyes to keep out the horror of this unpremeditated visitation.
These fade, and in the gathering darkness without a moon the silent Dronne grows very sombre.
Then he raged and swore, said he was being mocked at, dabbed his hat on his head, and made a pretence ofgathering up his samples and rushing off.
The weather was now very sultry; not a breath of wind stirred, and thunder-clouds were gathering in the sky.
Below, how the river seems to sleep under the dusky wings of gathering dreams where the white bridge spans it!
The Countess was too illustrious a personage to have escaped for long the fury of the fast-gathering mob, and had she been lost Alfieri would have shared her fate.
Mazzini was in charge of the civil government, Garibaldi of the army now rapidly gathering from all parts of Italy.
Alfieri saw the black clouds gathering on the French horizon, but stayed on in the desire to complete the printing of his works.
The clouds of war were gathering abroad in that same year.
The Tree Frog had chosen his winter home already, and the Bees were making the most of their time in visiting the last fall flowers, and gatheringevery bit of honey they could find for their cold-weather stock.
The Bees and Wasps, who had been gathering honey for their nests, flew swiftly back.
We sailed with a good westerly wind down the river, passing by the great salt marshes, which stretch a long way by the sea, and in which the town's people be now very busy in mowing and gathering the grass for winter's use.
It was true; a number of boys were gathering for a rush, while Hoppity Jack danced in frenzy up and down in front of his stall and shouted for the police.
This, too, was baled out, and a third gathering also.
The boys found it difficult to restrain their gathering impatience.
Burnnel and Emery were squatting in front of the fire, indolently smoking their pipes, while MacGregor's wife busied herself in gathering wood, laying out the camp utensils and in other ways making herself generally useful.
It was a pretty sight to see that congregation gathering on the village green.
As God and the angels look down upon this green to-day they see gathering together a great company of servants, but they also see that we are not all servants of the same master.
Thus the whole movement was almost completely masked from the Confederates, who from their side of the bay saw only Weitzel, and knew little or nothing of the gathering forces in his rear.
At first, I thought he was throwing them at me; but he stopped when he saw me looking up, and I went on gathering and putting them in the basket.
The storm which even then wasgathering upon her path was one which no sunshine of fame or prosperity could dissipate.
We come now to the family gathering in the palatial home of Mr. Courtney Van Winkle, just off Fifth Avenue (on the near east side), and it is December.
His grim, angular presence descended upon the joyous gathering like a wet blanket; and the young people subsided into silence until Leslie, rising to the occasion, went to the piano and started them all singing.
She was looking off to the hills that had been her strength all the years through so many trials, and gathering strength now to go in and meet her sister in final combat.
The girls were wild with the delight of a few hours' emancipation from school rules, and flew about gathering belated harebells, and running to the top of any little eminence to get the view.
The girls had reached their old trysting-place, and were gathering some cranesbill geraniums, when a figure suddenly climbed the wall opposite, and dropped down into the road.
