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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
forgather .
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Examples
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At Gya, a wild hamlet, the last in Ladak proper, I met a working naturalist whom I had seen twice before, and 'forgathered' with him much of the way.
Among the Tibetans 1867
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A few other pious men and women, of the best Evangelical type, went from the same parish to one or other favorite Minister at Dumfries; and when these God-fearing peasants "forgathered" in the way to or from the House of God, we youngsters had sometimes rare glimpses of what Christian talk may be and ought to be.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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There was a club in those days in Papeete, where the pearlers, traders, captains, and riffraff of South Sea adventurers forgathered.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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There was a club in those days in Papeete, where the pearlers, traders, captains, and riffraff of South Sea adventurers forgathered.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Yes, you are dead now and live only there, in a little, slightly tip-tilted graveyard where all of your childhood's Christmas trees are forgathered with the present they meant to give, and your childhood's river quietly curls at your side and breathes deep with each tide.
North and South 2006
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Yes, you are dead now and live only there, in a little, slightly tip-tilted graveyard where all of your childhood's Christmas trees are forgathered with the present they meant to give, and your childhood's river quietly curls at your side and breathes deep with each tide.
North and South 2006
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One man there was of them who was fashioned of the minstrel craft by nature, and who forgathered with me specially, till we became friends, and he was a solace to me, with his tales and his songs of
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There we forgathered in the summer evenings and of a Saturday afternoon in winter, and told mighty tales of our prowess and flattered our silly hearts.
Prester John 2005
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Aweel, when my mother and him forgathered, they set till the sodgers, and I think they gae them their kale through the reek!
Old Mortality 2004
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The last occasion on which Werdet forgathered with his favourite author was at his house in the Rue de Seine, where, in February
Balzac 2003
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