Amassing Sentence Examples

The Council can't talk any sense into A'Ran, and they're amassing this ginormous army to destroy him.

Amassing great stores of wealth and power brought them to the attention of King Philip.

Most of Ray's minor works were the outcome of his faculty for carefully amassing facts; for instance, his Collection of English Proverbs (1670), his Collection of Out-of-the-way English Words (1674), his Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages (1693), and his Dictionariolum trilingue (1675, 5th edition as Nomenclator classicus, 1706).

This gave him an opportunity for amassing wealth by sharing the booty of the robbers in return for leaving them alone.

The chief motive for these accusations was no doubt the desire of amassing wealth,' since by the law of majestas one-fourth of the goods of the accused, even if he committed suicide in order to avoid confiscation (which was always carried out in the case of those condemned to capital punishment), was assured to the accuser (who was hence called quadruplator).

It was an age of accumulation and preparation, when the world was still amassing and cataloguing the fragments rescued from the wrecks of Greece and Rome.

He was not a financier of genius; but he administered the public moneys with the same probity and exactitude which he used in managing his own, retrieving alienated property, straightening accounts, balancing expenditure and receipts, and amassing a reserve in the Bastille.

Amassing thousands of vamps in the same place wasn't a good sign.

Kris never would.ve sent him away, Sasha wouldn.t have stumbled upon the immunity blood, and the demons wouldn.t be amassing an army to send to the human world.

The band have combined these elements to form their own brand of indie pop that is amassing an enthusiastic following.

The author argues that there is more to a successful retirement than amassing a large stash of money.

My first thought deals with the legitimacy of amassing wealth.

According to VelleIus Paterculus and Pliny, he was a hypocrite and cared for nothing but amassing wealth.

Over time they might find themselves amassing a collection of unique mechanical watches, and keeping all those watches wound can become troublesome.

Free MMORPGs are usually turn-based, and revolve around amassing resources and advancing whatever it is that you control over that of other players.

If you're a fan of nightgowns and stylish nightwear, then you might be interested in amassing a collection.

Downloading music from the Chili Peppers is a great way to make sure your collection is complete and a cheaper way of amassing their huge catalog without buying each CD individually.

Regardless of whether you like the game for its intended purpose of giving you a virtual farm or just like the idea of amassing points and coins, FarmVille has hours of fun to offer anyone.

These perverts were mostly to be found among nobles desirous of amassing church property, or among those of the clergy who clamoured for communion in both kinds.

He was state's attorney for Hartford county from 1777 to 1785, and achieved extraordinary success at the bar, amassing what was for his day a large fortune.

Nothing is known of his early history beyond the fact that, after amassing a small competence as a popular lecturer on natural philosophy, he settled in Edinburgh to live a very retired life in the society of his apparatus alone.

He had seen Cyrene from the sea, probably on his voyage from Puteoli to Alexandria, where he remained a long time, probably amassing materials, and studying astronomy and mathematics.

The new diet had, under this, very narrow powers; and the elector was free to carry out his policy of amassing money, forbidding the construction of railways and manufactories, and imposing strict orthodoxy on churches and schools.