21.   Online trading hubs, where like-minded companies gather to facilitate business, are also inevitable, he said.

22.   Pioneer women often gathered to work on a single project together or on their own quilts, benefiting as much from the social contact as the needlework.

23.   Scenes like this are repeated on many nights along the coast of the Carolinas as couples gather to shag.

24.   Saturday nights found no empty parking places when the stores stayed open late and families and friends gathered to shop and visit.

25.   Some of our most enduring images of the evening meal come from the small screen, where Mom and Dad and all the kids gather together to chow down.

26.   The crowd that had gathered to rally around Rusedski exhaled in admiration.

27.   The leather upholstery used to be pulled taut, for example, is now loosely gathered to look and feel more sumptuous.

28.   The television gathers us to a common place as surely as a campfire or a town square does.

29.   The work, these critics say, has also muddied or warmed cool-water pools in which the trout gather to rest or escape predators.

30.   There are reminders everywhere you turn, not just where stock cars are raced or where rednecks gather to down a few long-necks.