The homeless huddle around fires as they desperately try to keep warm.

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On cooler days, guests huddle around blazing cave fires to listen to ageless tales, learn the art of body painting and are encouraged to simply let the old legends seep freely into their consciousness.

BBC: Sydney��s Aboriginal side

Instead of getting together to watch a movie, some people huddle around the living-room game console, or strap on a headset and chat online with friends across town or across the country over some gunfire.

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Held in the evening, outside of the Coliseum, pilgrims huddle together, holding candles as clergymen make their way around the imperial amphitheatre and up to Palatine Hill, where the service concludes.

BBC: Easter in Rome

You could argue, and in fact this point was made to me earlier in the week by Alastair Mitchell of Huddle, that the success or failure of the social business meme revolves around one central question: will enough CIOs have the guts, or the capability, to extricate themselves from big vendor relationships.

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They huddle together on blankets on the floor, their meagre belongings crammed tightly into plastic bags form a mini-fortress around their allotted space.

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