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amassing
1. They were amassing a large contiguous plot of land about twenty miles into the chaparral
2. There are Men who are mean, petty tyrants who love nothing more than to laugh at the misfortune of others and care more about amassing wealth than about protecting the innocent
3. There are Women who are mean, petty tyrants who love nothing more than to laugh at the misfortune of others and care more about amassing wealth than about protecting the innocent
4. However, even now the undead forces were amassing below, preparing for another assault; obviously intent on taking this section of the wall
5. A man of fortune, for example, may either spend his revenue in a profuse and sumptuous table, and in maintaining a great number of menial servants, and a multitude of dogs and horses; or, contenting himself with a frugal table, and few attendants, he may lay out the greater part of it in adorning his house or his country villa, in useful or ornamental buildings, in useful or ornamental furniture, in collecting books, statues, pictures ; or in things more frivolous, jewels, baubles, ingenious trinkets of different kinds; or, what is most trifling of all, in amassing a great wardrobe of fine clothes, like the favourite and minister of a great prince who died a few years ago
6. The government of Pennsylvania, without amassing any treasure, invented a method of lending, not money, indeed, but what is equivalent to money, to its subjects
7. The amassing of treasure can no longer be expected; and when extraordinary exigencies require extraordinary expenses, he must necessarily call upon his subjects for an extraordinary aid
8. Rumours had apparently filtered across the water about a huge army amassing in Taron, but thought it just a rumour like so many before
9. As a graying sixties generation quickly approaches middle age, sustained by a wistful desire for the ―good old days‖ that typified its youthful idealism, many can‘t help reflecting on those formative years without forlorn regret over a progeny whose slackening awareness and indifference to social ―causes‖ and other immediate issues that continue to trouble our society has given way to self-gratifying designs, like amassing ―huge‖ fortunes, for example
10. We watched the bugs amassing for a moment
11. I had big dreams of amassing a great amount of knowledge to store there, and used most of that level for the library
12. The sorcerers are amassing their forces and plan to strike now before we have time to raise up an army of wizards to face them
13. He strode past the crowds amassing the hallways to see what was going on and back into the conference room
14. However, it was never even considered possible that an individual of a species, on its own, might be inanimate, yet on amassing might suddenly transform into life
15. initially had given us a head start on amassing the necessary documents
16. in the back of my mind started to pull together, amassing
17. Being humorous for the moment, you don't want to spend thirty years of your life amassing fairground equipment if this is driven by the fact that your Dad refused to take you to the fair once, when you were seven
18. When a ship passed along they demanded a hefty toll and hid the gold below the dunes, amassing new hoards of treasure to replace what had been lost
19. If you honestly desire to regard your wealth as a trust, if you really wish to become a wise and efficient steward of your accumulated wealth, then would I counsel you to make the following analysis of the sources of your riches: Ask yourself, and do your best to find the honest answer, whence came this wealth? And as a help in the study of the sources of your great fortune, I would suggest that you bear in mind the following ten different methods of amassing material wealth:
20. To avoid this heavy amassing of
21. He was described as the greatest black pitcher, amassing a 1
22. courts for years, and all the while you would be amassing quite large
23. In contrast, while much of the populace is intent on amassing personal riches, there are
24. As Fred Chickweed neared the high school, he saw people of all stripes amassing on its great lawn
25. Ragnar had spared the trollesses on condition that they crossed the Great Forest and joined the Western army which was amassing there
26. some through the amassing of nuclear weapons
27. fully amassing of riches for the gratification of sensual desires
28. Gradual amassing of this wealth in the course of our struggle
29. “Everyone is everything – liar, lover, thief and saint, but in a crisis, however you act, your spiritual trajectory manifests the ideal your beingstyle is amassing as your true attractor
30. In every country in which inequality exists, the shadow government is money; its morality frames the intentions preceding all policy that follows from its general principles of amassing power to control
31. Greedy has morphed from wanting and coveting wealth to actually amassing it
32. In addition, he was amassing large sums of money in Swiss accounts, generated
33. their abilities and creativity in amassing material success to buy intimacies; which essentially
34. Around us the army were amassing in tight ranks and formations, in the way Arthur had trained them, using a long battle-front formed into arrow-headed wedges with locked shields through which the men would thrust with their swords after all the javelins were cast
35. But with the advance of technology, with capitalism replacing war as the most practical way of amassing wealth and power: societies found that they had to train their populations much more intensely to serve civilization's mechanical needs
36. Outside I could hear the army amassing, shouting, calling, and when I was fully armed, I went back out into the hall and saw Arthur out on the path, surrounded by men, Cai and Val, their own men ready to ride
37. They began amassing grain in granaries, and food and livestock
38. A careful analysis of the hypothesis in order to discern its implications, and the amassing of data which support it, lead to a more adequate hypothesis and eventually perhaps to its inclusion in a wide-ranging theory
39. So the peasants began amassing their wealth more publicly because their Protestant religion no longer frowned on selfishness in regard to material possessions
40. moment, you don't want to spend thirty years of your life amassing
41. There is no point whatsoever in amassing riches, never enjoying the
42. And I had been amassing them for 2 years!!! I found it difficult to talk about it, but I did it
43. For many years he had had voluptuous dreams of marriage, but he had gone on waiting and amassing money
44. Yes, upon my soul! The peasants have vodka, the educated young people, shut out from activity, waste themselves in impossible dreams and visions and are crippled by theories; Jews have sprung up and are amassing money, and all the rest give themselves up to debauchery
45. Amassing the two hundred petition circulators and having each sign their respective
46. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth
47. “But if your estimate of the strength the heretics are amassing is accurate,” Zavyr began, “you don’t—”
48. He never admitted that he himself did anything other than tolerate the interviews; he would spend the first ten minutes after Richard’s arrival puttering among the kitchen cabinets, amassing two baloney sandwiches on crustless Wonder Bread and a warty dill pickle and a can of Schlitz, all to preserve the conceit that this was merely lunchtime, he’d been planning to take a break anyway
49. So strong now was the sense of someone hovering nearby, amassing footage of the loft and the world beyond, that Mercer had once or twice found himself peering out the front window for cameras on the street
50. If she had fantasies of further investigating the Goulds, amassing proof that they weren’t what they seemed, she didn’t follow through