Swarmed

Examples

• But most of them went toward the fire and then back toward the end and swarmed on the cool end and finally fell off into the fire. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Theresa kept on repeating our story to her mistress, while I swarmed up and cut the rope of the bell. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• That is as true of all the minute creatures that swarmed and reproduced and died in the Arch?ozoic and Proterozoic seas, as it is of men to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After making her fast, they swarmed the sides and searched the vessel from stem to stern. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• To pass through the lighted rooms was, of course, out of the question, since they swarmed with green Martian men and women. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Then he had what was left of it carried to his own house; but even here spies swarmed to try to learn something of his secret. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They swarmed close up to the walls, headed, as I think, by the knave who won the prize at the archery, for I knew his horn and baldric. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• As it commenced to burn, the ants swarmed out and went first toward the centre where the fire was; then turned back and ran toward the end. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The gardens swarmed with brilliantly trapped black men and women. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In the valley they swarmed in myriads, but never came to the summit of the ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The house swarmed with inmates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The houses which he passed all along the route were found to be filled with Early's wounded, and the country swarmed with his deserters. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This gallery swarmed with people eager for a scene, ready to applaud or shout down the speakers below. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On they came with fierce cries, while from every side the armed prisoners swarmed upon them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They swarmed out of mud bee-hives; out of hovels of the dry-goods box pattern; out of gaping caves under shelving rocks; out of crevices in the earth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But Babylonia and Egypt swarmed with Greeks before his time; he was not the cause, he was a part of the Hellenization. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Georgy got one, wrenching it off, having swarmed up the pole to the delight of the spectators, and sliding down with the rapidity of a fall of water. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Others swarmed in to fill the breach, but inch by inch, foot by foot we won nearer and nearer to our goal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Repeatedly, during three terrible days, they swarmed up the little Malakoff hill, and were beaten back with terrible slaughter. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And now, the jury turned to consider, and the great flies swarmed again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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