The crowd round a couple of dogs fighting is a crowd masculine mainly, with an occasional active, compassionate woman fluttering wildly round the outside and using her tongue and her hands freely upon the men, as so many "brutes"; it is a crowd annular, compact, and mobile; a crowd centripetal, having its eyes and its heads all bent downward and inward to one common focus.

The crowd round a couple of dogs fighting is a crowd masculine mainly, with an occasional active, compassionate woman fluttering wildly round the outside and using her tongue and her hands freely upon the men, as so many "brutes"; it is a crowd annular, compact, and mobile; a crowd centripetal, having its eyes and its heads all bent downward and inward to one common focus.

Few, however, of the Roman families go there to-day;they perform their religious services in their private chapel or in some minor church; for the crowd of forestieri spoils St. Peter's for prayer.[A] At the elevation of the Host, the guards, who line the nave, drop to their knees, their side-arms ringing on the pavement,the vast crowd bends,and a swell of trumpets sounds through the dome.

Whosoever among this crowd desire to be healed; for there are many Christians in name, and in works ungodly; let them not deter you from good works.

gain he vents; Again the crowd attack.

"Emirs and viziers, all the courtly crowd Meantime attendant at the sultan's call, With festal splendor grace the nuptial hall.

" The mule answered: "When you are in a crowd balk and throw the basket to the ground.

I favour the cherry, and Mr. Grey fancies the blue; but I maintain that blue crowds cherry unfairly at the corners.

Grant such a prince enthroned, we must confess The people's sufferings than that monarch's less, Who must to hard conditions still be bound, And for his quiet with the crowd compound; Or should his thoughts to tyranny incline, Where are the means to compass the design? Our crown's revenues are too short a store, And jealous Sanhedrims would give no more.

Around this poplar, says Mr. Folkard, "symbolising the greatest solar ascension and the decline which follows it, the crowd dance, and sing an appropriate refrain;" and he further mentions that, at the commencement of the Franco-German War, he saw sprigs of pine stuck on the railway carriages bearing the German soldiers into France.

On the Place de la Bourse a great crowd discusses, and gesticulates around the piled bayonets which glitter in the sun.

The crowd doth gather, in silence it rolls; The squares, the streets, Scarce hold the throng.

He looked neither to the right nor the left, but bore his curious announcement among the crowds downtown, which smiled jestingly at him, or looked frightened at the message.

Not until night fell did the hymns cease and the crowd dwindle away.

Thither, in these early days of the struggle, the crowd flocks, drawn partly by curiosity to hear a man of whom it is whispered that he has just been individually put under the greater excommunication by the Holy Inquisition, because of his attitude in this quarrel.

Probably a mob all round a couple of bylegharies and a crowd followingeverybody distrusting every one, as it is treasure, looted from all round.

He finished a beer quickly and checked the crowd gathering in the Depresso.

The crowd huddles and packs.

Alone does Celindaja the coward crowd implore, "Oh, save him, save him, generous friends, give back to me my Moor.

Why, boy, do you parade your paltry wealth, which, expressed in mills, will not cover ten decimal places, before the eyes of a man who measures the planets in their orbits, and close crowds infinity itself?" I hastily disclaimed any intention of obtruding my foolish dollars, and he went on: "Your letter surprised me not a little.

When the women prisoners were transported to New South Wales, they were carried to the ships in open carts, the crowd jeering.

He was a born crowd-man, a "mixer."

The other bathers gradually disappear and the crowd melts imperceptibly away.

Is not the crowd multitude always with usor against us?

"Gang into an Exhibition," says the Ettrick Shepherd, "and only look at a crowd o' cockneys, some with specs, and some wi' quizzing-glasses, and faces without ae grain o' meaning in them o' ony kind whatsomever, a' glowering, perhaps, at a picture