Literary notes about Together (AI summary)
In literature, the word "together" functions as a bridge linking actions, emotions, and ideas, whether uniting characters physically, symbolizing emotional bonds, or melding disparate concepts into a coherent whole. Authors use it to highlight the collective undertaking of activities, as seen when commissioners and agents burst into a room in unison [1], or when lovers share a life and their children in happiness [2]. In more abstract contexts, writers like Bertrand Russell and Sigmund Freud employ "together" to convey the integration of distinct elements into a unified concept [3][4]. Its usage spans a wide range—from describing teams or groups acting in concert, as in epic gatherings [5][6] or communal responses [7], to presenting logical or mathematical assemblies [8][9]—thus revealing its versatility as a tool for emphasizing unity and cohesion in literature.
- Commissary Bertoglio knocked at the door, opened it, and together with his agents abruptly burst into the room, where a woman was in bed.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - The two lovers had four beautiful children and lived together in the most perfect happiness, sharing the same perils.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe - We spoke of the relation called 'judging' or 'believing' as knitting together into one complex whole the subject and the objects.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - For creative imagination can invent nothing new whatsoever, it can only put together certain details normally alien to one another.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - And the ruler of earth together with his wife was received honourably by that saint.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - "'You will find the other rock lie lower, but they are so close together that there is not more than a bow-shot between them.
— from The Odyssey by Homer - And then all together applauded and worshipped (Soma) the king of stars.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - If we divide this in the middle into two numbers and add them together we get 99, which, multiplied by itself, produces 9,801.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - Therefore the two small bundles contained together only half as much asparagus as a large one.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
