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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Gather
 
  Gathered like ants.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Gather like a locust’s crew.
            —Lord Byron		  2
  Gather like night-dew.
            —Lord Byron		  3
  Like a morning mist it gathered.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  4
  Gathers like a tide.
            —Christopher Pitt		  5
                Gather,
Like flocks of clouds in spring’s delightful weather.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  6
Gathering … As broken breakers rally and roar
The loud wind down that drives off shore.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  7
  Gather … like flies in the sun.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  8
  Gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.
            —New Testament		  9
  Gathered as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
            —Old Testament		  10
 
 
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