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Then the man turned to a comrade and said something rapidly in a language that I did not understand; and, at once, the whole crowd of them fell to jabbering in what, after a few moments, I guessed to be pure Irish.
The misty appearance had gone, and, now, I saw that it was crowded with dozens of bestial faces.
There was already such a crowd in the rooms that I couldn't get through; even my faithful Gerard could not make a passage.
Perhaps never before in the world's history have there been crowded into five years such dramatic occurrences on the world-stage, nor such large opportunities for the individual man or woman.
I sometimes go with the crowd to a lecture-room, and listen to the speeches about freedom and liberty, the hatred of bondage, and all that sort of thing.
" As Mary gave out medicine, many people would often crowd around her to hear her "Jesus talk."
In so slippery a place as Wall Street, it is found to be less certain; while in a crowd on Broadway, waiting for a bus, it cannot be said to maintain a very remarkable firmness.
thousands going before, thousands all crowding about him, and it would never do to leave him alone on a sudden.
The servants told us that since eight o'clock there had been a crowd at the doors, which they opened a little before nine, and a flood of people poured in.
"There's some one in the playground," whispered Diggory, as the others crowded round him.
The weavers used to keep Monday as a day of leisure; and the public-houses were crowded from morning till night with men and women, who drank away their earnings to the last penny.
Every act of the evening was so crowded with purpose; all meant so much.
" Big George hesitated only one instantit was to sweep the crowd for the second time with his confident grinand he strode through the door of the dance hall.
I remember, too, in that same season of storms, a lake made milky white for days, and crowded out of its bed by clay washed into it by a fury of rain, with the trout floating in it belly up, stunned by the shock of the sudden flood.
The village houses are often cramped and small, but there is wholesome space outside, and generally a good garden which supplies some of the family food; milk and eggs are easily obtainable, and conditions of living are seldom as crowded as in a town.
As for the cook, although her tongue was tart upon a just occasion and although she shooed the children with her apron, secretly she liked to have them crowding through her kitchen.
The car was second-class and crowded by returning holiday-makers, but the conductor, who did not know Lister and Miss Duveen, declared all the train was full and they must stay where they were.
"Heard you were the main guy with a whole crowd behind you," went on the brakie.
It was true: the passengers of the Oklahoma were crowded like cattle on a Kansas stock-car.
" Marcos followed his father through the crowd without replying.
In fact, for the next twenty minutes, reporters from the other papers kept arriving, till there was quite a crowd before the purser's office.
The men crowded after her.
As the whole of the population which before had been extended along the entire course of the water, was now crowded between the bridge and the Bucentaur, the long and graceful avenue resembled a vista of human heads.
With my face hid in the folds of my blanket, I run with the crowd toward the open place in the outer circle of our village.
For even supposing that the trees should stand twenty or thirty feet apart while young, by the time they are full-grown their trunks will touch and crowd against each other and even appear as one in some cases.