Thronging

Examples

• Tom had been standing wistfully examining the multitude of faces thronging around him, for one whom he would wish to call master. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Sharp, decisive speeches came thronging into her mind, now that it was too late to utter them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Her pallet and easel were now thrown aside; did she try to paint, thronging recollections made her hand tremble, her eyes fill with tears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was very strange to see thronging multitudes assembled in an artificial light again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Many a night and many a day had its inmates listened to the echoes in the corner, with hearts that failed them when they heard the thronging feet. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• With such schooling did my poor Idris try to hush thronging fears, and in some measure succeeded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Warm from illuminations, and music, and thronging thousands, thoroughly lashed up by a new scourge, I defied spectra. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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