forgather

And the reason why these best are destroyed is because John Barleycorn stands on every highway and byway, accessible, law-protected, saluted by the policeman on the beat, speaking to them, leading them by the hand to the places where the good fellows and daring ones forgather and drink deep.

In the English Club, where all who were distinguished, important, and well informed forgathered when the news began to arrive in December, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as though all were in a conspiracy of silence.

There was a club in those days in Papeete, where the pearlers, traders, captains, and riffraff of South Sea adventurers forgathered. The play ran high, and the drink ran high; and I am very much afraid that I kept later hours than were becoming or proper.

Accordingly, wherever social scientists forgather to share and

(48) This is, in the words of Shlomo Sand, "the active myth of an eternal nation [Israel] that must ultimately forgather in its ancestral land." (49) God's promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are perceived as a divine legitimizing source for Israel's charter of exclusive national privilege for the Jewish people, but also as the transcendental justification for the displacement and opprobrium suffered by the Palestinians.