The phrase "gathering down" can be correct and usable in written English, depending on the context in which it is used. It is not a commonly used phrase, but it could be used to describe the action of people or objects coming together in a downward direction. Example: The birds were seen gathering down towards the lake, preparing for their migration south.
Considering that fetching water was (and still is) a task assigned to women, the stepwells would have provided a reprieve in otherwise regimented lives, and gathering down in the village stepwell was surely an important social activity.
"Ask me to choose the best time," says Ashdown, "and I would say a late November evening when there's a frost and the mist is gathering down on the levels and you've got that slightly orange but steely light".
Even after all these years I can tell you of passion so fierce that it danced with gentleness, and how the whole hill throbbed with silence, the day gathering down, ordered and moving radiant beneath the firm pumping of our enraptured thighs, I can tell you, tell you how I became she and she me with no questions asked and no battle fought.
I was impressed by that, and by the topic of gathering down in Austin.
Yvette C. Brown Wahler a five-foot Navy officer, strode to the fore at the grim hotel gathering down the road from the gashed west front of the Pentagon.
They are gathering down at your reservation right now, as we speak.
And "Three-Legged Tango in Jackson Square" was a self-explanatory tone poem about gathering speed, falling down and getting up again.
British and Canadian officers immediately assumed his identity and secretly ran the site for 10 days before shutting it down — gathering evidence on the chat room's hundreds of members.
The scenery — dramatic, stratified rock formations and valleys between them — would have suited a John Ford film; you could almost see cavalry men lining up on a distant butte for a battle, or Indian warriors gathering before swooping down on a wagon train.
The satanic mills of the 21st century - the supermarket - erupt rather excitingly into the sanctum: a glass panel suddenly lights up in a ceiling and shows customers in front of their trolleys, dithering beside shelves of crisps and toilet paper, gathering to peer down curiously at the upturned faces of the audience, as if they were biological specimens or denizens of a nether world.
I went to the reception area, sat down, gathering my thoughts - desperately trying to think about what I should do next, when it occurred to me that I was the only reporter there at that particular time.
