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Of Mice and Men
- And scattered about the floor were a number of personal possessions; for, being alone, Crooks could leave his things about, and being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the other men, and he had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back.†
p. 67.0accumulated = collected or gradually increased
Definition:
to collect or gradually increase