forgather

I was led away to a smaller drawing room within the palace where about 20 or so other writers had been forgathered in a loose ring, backs to the damask walls.

Who would have thought when we exchanged commonplaces on that boat a short time ago we should forgather like this in a lovely old Surrey house?

Here the fenland folk forgathered with them, for the Norman was a more thoroughgoing oppressor than any Dane; and, in especial, the "strenuous" outlaw Hereward "the Wake" joined them "with his gang."

"Any idea of the rendezvous?" asked Jack Sefton, one of the midshipmen, as the lads forgathered in the gun-room to "stand easy", almost for the first time since commissioning.

About an hour after that the two guards forgathered to compare notes.