She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him. F. Scott Fitzgerald
They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing; Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees. Robert Bridges
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect. Tom T. Hall
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane? Charlotte Brontë
All its dissipated powers must be gathered up into one, because unity is. Johannes Tauler
If water is split, it can not be gathered up. Swahili Proverb