As he speaks, a crowd gathers around to listen and offer their support.
Promoted to the rank of schoolmaster, he gathered around him a circle of disciples from every social class.
There was also the impact on the young players he gathered around him, which puts his successor in a very strong place for Japan four years from now.
The group of men he gathered around him between 1895 and 1914 came from all over the world, and after working under him many accepted professorships abroad.
He gathered around him a team of dedicated litterateurs, scientists, and even priests, many of whom, as yet unknown, were to make their mark in later life.
As the boss of Bray Studios, he gathered around him the talents who would make Hammer Horror a force to be reckoned with.
The truth is that he first encountered them when he was over 40 and the folk-wisdom that he said he gathered around their camp-fires had been collected and published since the 1870s.
He gathered around him a group of congenial friends and pupils, such as the philosopher James Mill, father of John Stuart Mill, with whom he could discuss the problems upon which he was engaged.
He adorned Dresden; welcoming foreign musicians and others, he gathered around him a large and splendid court, and his capital was the constant scene of musical and other festivals.
He gathered around him learned pupils including Abū Ḥanīfah and Mālik ibn Anas, founders of two of the four recognized Islāmic legal schools, the Ḥanaīyah and Mālikīyah, and Wāṣil ibn ʿAtaʾ, founder of the Muʿtazilī school.
