43 Metaphors for crowding

The crowds were poor folk, for the most part, peasants from the fields, charcoal burners from the mountains, shepherds in their sheepskin coats and trousers, made with the wool outside, so that the wearers looked like strange, two-legged animals.

If I met anybody I knew, I should escape, if to the other end of the world; but crowds have become a necessity to me.

As the omnibus proceeded towards the centre of Paris the crowd became denser on the Boulevard.

A crowd, which divided itself into groups, is the multitude, Who got in clumpsp.

The grouping of the figures round the grotto, representing the scene at the eighteenth appearance of the Virgin to Bernadettewho is the foremost figure kneeling in the grottois particularly fine; but how that huge crowd standing there were content with Bernadette's assertion that she saw the vision, when none of them saw anything but the stones, is a practical question that few probably could answer, and least of all the priests.

the motley crowd from Accomac were no fit adversaries for those stern backwoodsmen.

Suppose that the crowd is really no more than a crowd, a vast miscellaneous confusion of persons which grows more miscellaneous every year.

The crowd was a whirling, eddying pool surging with a roar up to the narrow cleft which was its only outlet.

As there were no troops on the Boulevard St. Martin and the Boulevard du Temple, the crowd was more compact pact there than elsewhere.

The crowd, to restless motion still inclined, Are clouds, that tack according to the wind.

" "Our crowd wasn't even a peninsula," remarked Bobby with feeling.

It was worthy of remark, too, with how much consideration this little crowd of gentle Italians treated their aged seaman, on this occasion; none bawling out their questions, and all using the greatest care not to get in front of his person, lest they might intercept his means of observation.

Sugar crowd ess t'ough some von hat nipped 'is scarf-pin unt he vos layin' for him ass he game out.

The Kearny Street crowd was a varying quantity, frankly shabby or flashily prosperous, as far south as Sutter Street, suddenly dignified and reserved for the two blocks beyond.

Their Temple is destroyed, and the crowd which had once pressed beneath its portico as the flock of the living God has become a miserable tribe, restless and unquiet in the present, but full of hope as regards the future.

It looks to me much as if a big crowd was gatherin' in the rear of the line.

So the whole crowd collected on the evening fixed, and there was an indescribable noise.

The countless crowds of Toltecs that come to the wedding festivities, and are drowned before midnight in the waters of the strangely named river, are they not the infinitely numerous light-rays which are quenched in the world-stream, when the sun has sunk, and the gloaming is lost in the night?

When the crowd was the biggest, in the middle ring, the keeper led me out of the dressing room with a chain.

Amongst the crowd of unfortunate people brought from Louvain to Brussels were thirteen priests.

The crowd in this hotel are totally different looking to Chicago.

90 Almighty crowd, thou shortenest all dispute Power is thy essence; wit thy attribute!

You saw yourself, Ivan Andreievitch, that all that week the crowd outside the Duma was truly a sea of people with the motor lorries that bristled with rifles for sea-monsters and the gun-carriages for ships.

At once a crowd was aroond mewhere those London crowds spring frae I've ne'er been able to guess.

Yet if the crowd be judge of fit and just, And kings are only officers in trust, Then this resuming covenant was declared When kings were made, or is for ever barr'd.

43 Metaphors for  crowding