muster

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After a long day at work, she mustered the energy to attend her daughter's soccer game.

If you can't muster the will to jump off, you don't belong here.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

She could not muster her usual venom.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

He held his mind to the task for a long time, picturing, with all the clarity he could muster, everything he had seen in that underground realm—the long stairway, the tunnels, the door, the path along the river, the rocks along the path.  (source) Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember, 2003

In March, however, he mustered his resolve once more and resumed his lonely trek.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The Eagles had long had suspicion of the goblins' mustering; from their watchfulness the movements in the mountains could not be altogether hid.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

For having set in the Hôtel des Tournelles six panes of white glass in the place where the iron cage is, thirteen sols; for having made and delivered by command of the king, on the day of the musters, four shields with the escutcheons of the said seigneur, encircled with garlands of roses all about, six livres; for two new sleeves to the king's old doublet, twenty sols; for a box of grease to grease the boots of the king, fifteen deniers; a stable newly made to lodge the king's black pigs, thirty livres parisis; many partitions, planks, and trap-doors, for the safekeeping of the lions at Saint-Paul, twenty-two livres.†  (source) Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831

Before the city stands a lofty mound, In the mid plain, by open space enclos'd; Men call it Batiaea; but the Gods The tomb of swift Myrinna; muster'd there The Trojans and Allies their troops array'd.†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

There the School's history had unrolled, the fabled riot scenes and Presidential visits and Civil War musterings, if not in these buildings then in their predecessors on the same site.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.†  (source) The Bible, Old Testament, 1611

Ender noted with pleasure that Condor could only muster the minimal five soldiers necessary to open the gate to victory.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

I mustered the courage to walk through the silent house by myself and reached the warehouse.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

I stared up at her, temporarily frozen, mustering my courage.†  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

We were called for muster at dawn.

A half-truth at best, though tedious enough to pass muster.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Everywhere I looked there were signs for runaway shelters, runaway hotlines, and one lady cop in particular gave me the fish-eye as I was hurrying outside—after sixty-plus hours on the bus, I was dirty and tired and knew I didn't really pass muster—but nobody stopped me and I didn't look behind me until I was out the door, and well away.  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

And if he really expected that, I could not pass muster.  (source) Ellen Hopkins, Identical, 2008

In mathematics I hope he will pass muster.  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002