Shirt-sleeved householders, leaning against their door-posts smoking, exchanged ideas across the narrow space paved with cobble-stones which separated their small and ancient houses, while the matrons, more gregariously inclined, bunched in little groups and discussed subjects which in higher circles would have inundated the land with libel actions.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
A peasantry are very slow to throw over old sentiments, and will suffer long before breaking with the past, but they take a sure grip of their own interest, and they will turn sometimes very decisively and very gregariously to new deliverers.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
19. Growing gregariously on old damp logs; very common in this region.
"The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio"
A. P. Morgan