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Definition of Foregathering
1. foregather [v] - See also: foregather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foregathering
Literary usage of Foregathering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by National Electric Light Association (1911)
"... monthly meeting of the Union Electric Light and Power Company Section, St.
Louis, Mo., was held on April 28th before a foregathering of its members. ..."
2. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, Royal Cortissoz (1906)
"He is happy when he is at work; happy when he is foregathering with Giulio Romano
or some other boon companion in Florentine Bohemia, when the day's task is ..."
3. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1899)
"... the men on the steps of the market-hall, or at some convenient foregathering
place. A little way out of the village stands the church, a square-towered, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"It was curious, but none the less true, that, in spite of the foregathering on
Christmas Day in spite of the bonds of friendship which Mr. Leslie himself ..."
5. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"... Nor ever here comes rumor Of anxious world or war's foregathering pines, The
bleaching flag, the faded wreath, Mark the dead soldier's dust beneath, ..."
6. The Bookman (1903)
"Through all the hard years he remained alone, foregathering with none of the
Bohemian cloisters that abound in London and having only one friend to converse ..."
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