GATHERING in Classic Quotes

1  Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

2  He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

3  And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires and a whole clan named Blackbuck who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

4  The "death car" as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

5  He informed me that he was in the "artistic game" and I gathered later that he was a photographer and had made the dim enlargement of Mrs. Wilson's mother which hovered like an ectoplasm on the wall.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

6  Self consciously, with his authoritative arms breaking the way, we pushed through the still gathering crowd, passing a hurried doctor, case in hand, who had been sent for in wild hope half an hour ago.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7