The fire licked as close as burned ground and rocky creek bed would let it, and the flames which had stayed behind to eat the spare gleanings died, while the main line raged on up the hillside and disappeared in a huge, curling wave of smoke.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
On the walls and gates of York have been spiked many heads, and with particulars of a few of the more important we will bring to a close our gleanings on this gruesome theme, though not one without value to the student of history.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
Once, when crossing the bridge, on her way to the mill with her gleanings, she met him on horseback.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach