Seven figures, more like ghosts than the ghost himself, gathered around the fallen knight.

Then I made out something else also, the figures of men gathering on the top of the wall, though whence they came I knew not.

The world is stationary again, the water lapping at my shoulders; figures, blurred and green from my goggles, gather above me.

Dozens of Politkovskaya's colleagues, public figures, and admirers of her work gathered at the cemetery.

Sybil watched through half-closed lids as blurred figures haltingly gathered round her.

In the common room, seven figures gathered around the long and battered wooden table, with its two wooden benches.

Many national figures who performed elsewhere in Baltimore gathered at the Comedy Club to party after their shows.

Top Palestinian figures gathered in the West Bank to show that the leadership was still functioning.

We seem to have entered the world of a medieval canvas as, all around us, figures gather in poses of physical and spiritual urgency.

Six hard-suited figures trooped slowly down the ladder, one after the other, and gathered in front of the video cameras with their lander behind them.