Thus even in the accounts of great public gatherings for worship the main duty of the priests and Levites is to perform the sacrifices.
On the second of these Tuesday gatherings which I was privileged to attend, Joanna presented me to two well-favoured young women, the daughters, I gathered, of people who had country places near by.
After that he refused to talk at such social gatherings as chance afforded, and moodily listened, while he consumed profitless alcohol.
Many of my readers know what I mean as thus I write, for they have been in those hallowed gatherings where "they that feared the Lord spake often one to another.
Their principal gatherings were at the little trading post on the Burntwood River.
Home gatherings were frequent among these refugees and in this way the organization of the present church was effected.
He was with the regiment too, but, just as of old, eschewed the club-room and all gatherings of the kind.
Of these gatherings the principal attraction was the hostess, and, in a secondary degree, the agreeableness of the people whom she could gather round her.
The system of overawing justice by such gatherings was usual, as we have already seen; Knox, Bothwell, Lethington, and the Lord James Stewart all profited by the practice on various occasions.
It was usual to overawe the administrators of justice by these gatherings of supporters, perhaps a survival of the old "compurgators.
Orchard Street--the hall in which the first Jewish Anarchist gatheringswere held in New York.
But how slyly she managed to arrange kissing games at the Sunday gatherings at her home, and always lose to me!
Returning northward, along the coast, in the shade of the cold and gloomy mountains of the Kaikoura Range, I found at Wellington two invitations awaiting me to be present at great gatherings of the native tribes.
On the month for annual worship all the people met in the place of public gatherings with heaps of cooked food.
The principal political gatherings are held at the bay called Palauli, or "Black mud," from the dark mud flats which appear at low water.
The town was named after him, and to this day in all public gatherings the distribution of the food part of the entertainment is committed to some of the young men of this place.
Safotulafai is the political capital of the Faasaleleanga, and the place where their representative parliamentary gatheringsare held, especially in times of war.
In former times, the amusements of young people at their winter-evening gatherings consisted almost entirely of "playing games.
They found a solace for their social ostracism in delightful gatherings which assembled weekly at the residence of Dr.
The marked peculiarity of all the gatherings of this campaign was a certain grotesque pomp and extravagance of representation suggestive of a grand carnival.
It met in a spacious pavilion, and was one of the largest political gatherings ever assembled in the country, and animated by unbounded earnestness and enthusiasm.
The Romans had three words for describing gatherings of the people.
German term for the German students' social gatherings held annually on occasions such as the breaking-up of term and the anniversary of the university's founding.
The anniversary is celebrated by ceremonial gatherings of his French and English followers, who then commemorate the name and the services of the founder of their religion.
At all the public gatherings in Rio these people appear in uniforms or court dresses, decorated with stars and crosses so numerously and inappropriately bestowed as to border on the ridiculous.
To these nightly gatherings come all who have nothing serious to detain them, and the flirtations begun at the portales are the curse of the women of Santiago.
On other occasions it might be taken for a place of rural quiet, instead of those indescribable gatherings of the rotten membranes of a bad political power.
A curiously democratic law, however, offers a fierce impediment to this; and Daddy Daniel shakes his head, and aunt Peggy makes a belligerent muttering when told such gatherings cannot take place without endangering the state's rights.
Mrs. Sewall, chairman of the executive committee, presented a comprehensive report of the past year's work, which included appeals to many gatherings of religious bodies.
Leading hotels gave their parlors for precinct meetings and many of the halls used for public gatherings were donated by the owners.
Social gatherings of various kinds are arranged to meet the various needs and ages of the members; and one night a week four or five card-tables are set out, so that the older members can have a quiet game of skat or whist.
An Englishman who was present at some of these gatherings in Heidelberg, told me that the etiquette was most difficult for a foreigner to understand, and always a source of anxiety to him all the evening.
Judging from the number of fireplaces in this quarter there is reason to believe that much cooking was done in this open space, in addition to its use for ceremonial or other gatherings of the inhabitants.
In the fourteenth century, there stood in Bologna an ancient Oak, which was regarded with the greatest reverence, and beneath its boughs all important gatherings of the people took place.
As many as two thousand camels have been counted at one of the weekly gatherings here.
Inform Local Assemblies and groups hold in befitting manner memorial gatherings to extol a life so laden with sacred experiences, so rich in imperishable memories.
I urge the Local Assemblies befittingly to organize memorial gatherings in memory of one whose international services entitled her to an eminent rank among the Hands of the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh.
Stairs and Reynolds both addressed minor gatherings during the week, and met John Crondall every evening for consultation.
In one memorable day we addressed immense gatherings in four different towns, and travelled one hundred and thirty miles to boot.
At the first of the year, all gatherings of undergraduates not in fraternities hummed and buzzed with speculations about who would or would not be "taken" by the leading fraternities.
Judith held aloof from these gatherings at the Fingál house, her prejudice against the girls never weakening, although Cécile as well as Camilla had won over almost all the other girls of her grade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gatherings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
