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get or gather together
- My father and grandfather built up the Community National Bank just to amass a fortune for themselves.1.10 Part 1 Chapter 10 — Wyatt's Torch (40% in)
- After a while, she asked, in the tone of a dryly statistical inquiry, "How much of a fortune has Midas Mulligan amassed in this valley?"3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (50% in)
- "-then, later, had snapped: "The tycoons can stand being squeezed, they've amassed enough to last them for three generations"then, later, had yelled: "Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (11% in)
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