Crowding

Examples

• There were tortures and executions, as well as a great crowding of the gaols with Christian presbyters and bishops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No crowding, said Mr. Rochester: take the drawings from my hand as I finish with them; but don't push your faces up to mine. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Archer was dealing hurriedly with crowding thoughts. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• There was room there for a dozen persons, with a little crowding, and it was as close and hot as an oven. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The whole place seemed restless and troubled; and the people were crowding and flitting to and fro, like the shadows in an uneasy dream. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A forest valley, with rocky sides and brown profundity of shade, formed by tree crowding on tree, descends deep before me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The little dark boats had moved nearer, people were crowding curiously along the hedge by the high-road, to see what was to be seen. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And there was a great crowding and dislocation of goods at the dép?ts because there was insufficient road transport. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was no frantic crowding and jostling, no shouting and swearing, and no swaggering intrusion of services by rowdy hackmen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Words seemed crowding to her tongue. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To avoid crowding we have omitted the Hairy Ainu. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Archer checked the conventional phrases of self-accusal that were crowding to his lips. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• At our landing, the captain forced me to cover myself with his cloak, to prevent the rabble from crowding about me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• They stepped right over the dogs, the rear crowding the front, impatient to get on. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Editor: Samantha