Sentence examples for gathering himself up from inspiring English sources

A writer on the American magazine, the Nation, was astonished to find her British colleague, the leftist eminence Christopher Hitchens, "gathering himself up grandly … and telling me he would happily serve on one of Her Majesty's ships that were at that moment steaming … to keep the sheep and shepherds under British rule".

In the center of the space, Dendy wandered amid a labyrinth that had been laid out on the floor, made from a length of thick rope; he seemed to be loosening up, gathering himself.

Towards the end, Kimmel chokes up, before quickly gathering himself and continuing with the rest of the segment.

"We have to find a more strategic way to recruit more men," he said while gathering up brochures and boxing up the left-over doughnuts.

King Kev will console himself by gathering up Derby winger Giles Barnes and 17-year-old Cardiff playmaker Aaron Ramsey.

I've spent the last two weeks gathering up all my old jeans and buying up every pair I can find in all the Brooklyn vintage shops.

It radiated inward, gathering up the "imperfect" matter it encountered and piling it up in front, similar to the way shock waves propagate in a supernova explosion.

Gradually, he's gathering up material, going into the history, immersing himself in Icelandic sagas.

While attending an American Library Association conference in San Francisco in 1967, Mr. Schimmelpfeng found himself, he said, "running around and gathering up posters in Haight-Ashbury".

Half a block up from Mr. Mazza's house, a woman named Ray Galati was gathering up white-painted branches and unstringing lights.

I am simply gathering up courage".