All my accumulations were swept away, and I quit the business--or, rather, the business quit me.
Their accumulations of the precious metals exceeded anything previously known in the history of the world.
Then there was the big cupboard under the stairs, but that could scarcely be the site of this prodigious cache, for it was full of cardboard and curtains and carpets and all the rubbishy accumulations which Elizabeth could not bear to part with.