1.   A crowd of children had gathered on the station platform to wave him off.

2.   A crowd of sightseers had gathered on the street across from the burning houses.

3.   A silence gathered on the telephone line.

4.   Angry workers were gathering on the steps of City Hall.

5.   As he gazes from his White House window Clinton sees clouds gathering on the horizon and dimming his shining hour.

6.   At sunrise the entire school community gathers on the Lake Michigan shoreline.

7.   Excitement fades to disillusionment, and so another piece of technology goes to gather dust on a storeroom shelf.

8.   Many of the plants in the gardens were gathered on trips to Japan and China.

9.   Or that any newscast or print publication has room to or should present every shard of information it gathers on every story?