gathered

I gathered up some scattered ash from the floor.

In one place he gathered up very carefully a little pile of grey dust from the floor, and packed it away in an envelope.

Dorothy went to get him, and saw such delicious fruit hanging from the branches that she gathered some of it, finding it just what she wanted to help out her breakfast.

When the people heard from the Guardian of the Gates that Dorothy had melted the Wicked Witch of the West, they all gathered around the travelers and followed them in a great crowd to the Palace of Oz.