"Accumulate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unbroken at the time of those preparations for Caddy's marriage, that nothing which it had been possible to spoil in any way was unspoilt, and that no domestic object which was capable of collecting dirt, from a dear child's knee to the door-plate, was without as much dirt as could well accumulate upon it. ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... in again anywhere and anyhow. No sort of method in their arrangement. No blinds, no glass doors to protect them. He had pointed this out to Lucia, suggesting that it was not a good thing to let too much dust accumulate on the tops of books, neither was it altogether desirable that a strong south-westerly light should play upon them all day long. Had she ever noticed how the bindings were cracking and fading? For all this he seemed to be blaming Lucia; and this, Lucia tried to persuade herself, ...
— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair
... we heard a curious circumstance, that even a narrow stream will stop the advance of the sand, which will accumulate on its banks, but has not the power to cross to the ...
— A Yacht Voyage Round England • W.H.G. Kingston
... had begun to accumulate around the table. Some of them were persons in evening dress, some were Assassins on the hotel payroll, and some were ...
— Last Enemy • Henry Beam Piper
... Richmond and Wilmington this fall and winter. It has been communicated to the President that if it takes their last man, and all their means, these cities must fall. Gen. Smith is getting negroes to work on the defenses, and the subsistence officers are ordered to accumulate a vast ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
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