Swarming

Examples

• A slave rushed into the dining hall to cry that a great concourse of people was swarming through the palace gates. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Except when game is swarming, hunting communities must not keep together in large bodies or they will starve. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And wilt moreover assure us the retreat of that scum of mankind who are swarming around the castle, contrary to God's peace and the king's? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• An hum, like that of ten thousand hives of swarming bees, stunned us as we entered the coffee-room. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And the world was fairly swarming with inventors! Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Surrounded on all sides by the Sultan's swarming battalions, the Christian Knights fought on without a hope for their lives. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We have sat through the long watches of the night while Edison brooded on the real solution of the swarming problems. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We still were fighting furiously as we talked in broken sentences, punctured with vicious cuts and thrusts at our swarming enemy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Editor: Matt