There was a small gaggle of onlookers, mostly bored.

He summoned a television camera and a small gaggle of reporters to watch him make two turn-out-the-vote phone calls, mostly for show.

He handed her down the steps to a small gaggle of guards and ladies-in-waiting and general rubberneckers.

The small gaggle of professional baseball historians relish each of these tidbits as they are unearthed, but some are past the point of being surprised.

There was a small gaggle of latecomers lining up for the first metal detector and a corresponding number waiting at the ballroom door.

There are two large pens of turkeys here, a much smaller gaggle of noisy geese there, and across the yard, a group of preening guinea fowl.

A priest was moving past the blocks of flats with a small gaggle of men, carrying a wounded figure.

"Oh, I think we can manage a little better than that," she assured him, and turned to the small gaggle of housemaids huddled behind her and gazing apprehensively at the hradani whose stature dwarfed the manor house's entry hall.

Donali and the tau were all for it, once the idea had sunk in, so I found myself leading a small gaggle of xenos and diplomats out of the hall, and into the open air.

A small gaggle of bowing servants had already descended upon them from the inn, wrapping the gentlefolk in dry quilts and leading them up the path to the large house.