Crowds

Examples

• At the various towns there were corresponding crowds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Miles long, and of breadth losing itself in vagueness, for all the neighbouring country crowds to see. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A very crestfallen coachload of royalty returned to Paris and was received by vast crowds--_in silence_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I started immediately making several larger and better machines, which I exhibited at Menlo Park to crowds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Crowds of spectators assembled to see the boat start on its first experimental voyage. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He found that Wilbur Wright actually preferred to fly without an audience, and thought nothing of disappointing the crowds that gathered to watch him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Crowds at the performance with the legs. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• All along the line there were crowds of persons collected to witness the ceremony. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Crowds of emigrants inundated the west of Europe; and our island had become the refuge of thousands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Then the more reckless of the crowds threw all sense of fairness to the winds, and broke into Mr. Miller’s house, seized the machine, and carried it off with them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Marxian paraphernalia crowds three heavy volumes, so elaborate and difficult that socialists rarely read them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Everybody that day did not include Mr. Bulstrode, whose health could not well endure crowds and draughts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The clergy are lost there in the crowds of their parishioners. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Charles I, who was probably one of the meanest and most treacherous occupants the English throne has ever known, was frightened by the London crowds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Incredulous crowds watched this visitation from the outer world, marching through the streets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Oliver, whose days had been spent among squalid crowds, and in the midst of noise and brawling, seemed to enter on a new existence there. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But Whitney and Miller were afraid to let people see the invention until they had made sure of their patents on it, and so they refused to let the crowds have a look at it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She knew them in crowds passing to and from their nests, like ants or beetles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Midnight was long past; the concert was over, the crowds were thinning. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Broglie hesitated to fire on the crowds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Watch the crowds in front of a bulletin board, finding a vicarious excitement and an abstract relief from the monotony of their own lives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• By an external compromise that crowds in so much of each? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Such was the Diorama as it was first exhibited in London to admiring crowds. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Coming, my dear ma'am,' cried a voice, 'as quick as I can--crowds of people--full room--hard work--very. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The work of Gustav Le Bon on crowds has, of course, passed into current thought, but I doubt whether anyone could say that he had even prepared a basis for a new political psychology. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Vast vacant crowds presently choked the streets, and every house and shop that possessed such adornments hung out flags. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Crowds came to beg for a look at the wonderful machine, and hung about the house and plotted to get in. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Crowds of foreigners arrived for the fetes, and of English, of course. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He saw the pilgrimage crowds, and noted the threads of insincerity and superstition in the paganism of the town. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The council-chamber was deserted; the crowds which attended on him as agents to his various projects were neglected. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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