She thought that relatives were often more trouble than they were worth, and she promised never to attempt a regathering of the scattered Petherick clan.   anvd [Please select]

Here they recoiled, fled, even across the gully; here they seethed, inchoate; there, regathering form and might, they readvanced to the echoing hill, with its three breastworks and its eighty cannon.   anvd [Please select]

Or again you would have observed those myriad masses plunging across the veld, still in cohering masses, which shook and broke and scattered, regathering again, as though drawn by a magnet, but leaving stark remnants in their wake.   anvd [Please select]