On Monday, a moat of filthy water gathered around it.
The roiling water gathered behind the barrier of rocks, rising higher and higher.
The glaciers preferentially flowed down the vales and synclines and greatly deepened them into ice-cut basins, where water gathered; as the ice melted away, the Great Lakes formed.
A man playing a saxophone blasted a slow song as droplets of water gathered on his hair and slid down his sax.
He loved the way his boat's wake spread, how the water gathered itself before being released into the relative calm of the river as it headed toward the merciful breadth of Lake Ontario.
The landscape was tattered and bleak, a salt-encrusted desert leavened occasionally by a few date palms or a copse of bullrushes or a swampy section where stagnant water gathered in pools.
When I got it home, I put it in the kitchen sink, turned on the tap, and watched how the water gathered and formed pools in the spaces between the leaves.
The water gathered on the vast landscapes of the Pennines and the northern Lakeland fells and eventually found its way into the river Eden, which flows through the city.
Yunior himself is encased within a kind of bubble — doubly, triply, multiply encased — separated from his new environs by paternal mandate, maternal timidity, unfamiliarity with the language and the frozen turf beyond the window panes, on which "beads of water gathered... like bees," obscuring the view.
When the first navigators came here, there were lots of holes that rain water gathered in and over time it turned the colour of brandy or whisky".
