He hurried down the stairs to try to close the door, but the wind was gathering strength, gusting into the house.

They went back after tea when the pale winter sky had darkened and the wind had gathered its strength once more.

Only outside where the wind gathered itself and the surf took on a different note.

The wind was gathering force, and the child's cries were now all but inaudible.

But in an instant the wind had gathered.

The wind had apparently gathered strength from the night hours; so had the rain.

The three rocks began moving their wings, in time with the honks, and the wind gathered.

The night was cloudy, and a wind was gathering.

Since the wind has gathered them together, they do not even have to be mined, merely scooped up.

While the wind gathers force on one continent, Europe plunges headlong into crisis.