ingathering

Example Sentences

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Their ranks also included many former Democrats who shared a fervor for the anti-slavery cause and helped take some of the Whiggish, elitist edge off this ingathering of idealists and practical politicians.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2016

I’m having a small party to celebrate my ingathering of selves.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2013

In a sense Whitman's entire life was an act of ingathering and what Kaplan calls "a demonstration of the regenerative power of personality, change and language."

From Time Magazine Archive

"We'll trade a horseback ride any time for the opportunity to teach the Bible," says Bus Minister Jim Vineyard, who marshals the weekly ingathering.

From Time Magazine Archive

It darkened all the summer days, and dulled all the usual mirth-making of the ingathering feasts.

From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston