foregather formal
forgather formal

By her lights she was his wife, and had been from the day they first foregathered.

After a bit they foregathered, and by then, of course, they were alarmed.

"Never have I beheld so many mortals, foregathered in one place!

If I were to bring in everybody else within the United Kingdom, it might be some time before we foregathered.

Most of the other students had foregathered by this time and were awaiting their final briefing from their tutor.

"You find a spot where rats are foregathered.

"We foregathered in some strength of numbers.

Somewhere in this wasteland, an obscure disaster foregathered.

They informed us about the time the first picketers foregathered on our gatestep.

'You remember when we foregathered on the Tanana, four years come next ice run?

They foregathered at Macho's for a preliminary drink to brace themselves for the house-warming party.

When Miss Pupford and her assistant first foregathered, is not known to men, or pupils.

"Thank goodness, everything is ready at last," breathed Felicity devoutly, as we foregathered for a brief space in the fir wood.

Then his scattered wits slowly foregathered, and he sat up sniffing the air with an expression of wonderment upon his face.

She became a leading light of the early Summer School Movement at which Fabian intellectuals foregathered.

In the big autumnal orchard the younger fry foregathered and chatted and coquetted.

And so--one foregathered in a cheerful spot amidst friends, and drank forgetfulness.

The Happy Family were foregathered there, wrangling with Happy Jack over some trifling thing.

Agatha Christie foregathered--couldn't have done anything else decently.

Crowds up to 20 000 attended the Chain Races and "Simpson v was an argument to be heard where cyclists foregathered."

On the street corner opposite, the Happy Family foregathered clannishly, waiting until they were called into the street-fight scene which Luck meant to make later.

After all, he needed a spot where rats were foregathered for the thing to work and he needed Glipkerio alone best to work on him.

In the evenings when they foregathered in the kitchen and Tillytuck played on his fiddle she sometimes felt that she must only have imagined it.

This was not until mid-September, and Nigel, I and two of his colleagues foregathered in the turbine house for the big switch-on.

Animate Senescence The Council of Oomus foregathered in tired splendor.

He has not left one valley, one isle of fresh and green Where old friends could forgather amid the howling wreck.

Very soon it would be suppertime and the staff would forgather for the end-of- term glass of sherry before the meal.

He rules a sort of happy hunting ground, where ordinary folk go and forgather with like-minded people; it may be pleasant or unpleasant according to your nature.

"I promise you the one thing, Alan," said I. "The next time that we forgather, I'll be better learned.

Dean's California-wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.