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    1. had no wish to be a “circus freak” provided for the entertainment of the ensuing crowd


    2. "It would be better to catch her offshore, she can't disappear into the crowd that way


    3. The crowd of spectators had a moment to look on in horror before Bob plowed right into them, knocking at least a dozen students to the ground and managing to land on a good number of them


    4. He turned and saw his mechanic in the approaching crowd


    5. Once the event occurs our cooperation to authorities, encouraging the younger lot to provide help to the needy, taking some sort of control to prevent theft and arsons, regulate the crowd that usually collects and hampers rescue efforts and the doctors amongst us to provide urgent medical aid are some of the tasks we can take upon ourselves and thus be relevant for the society even at this age


    6. ’ Stephen muttered as we reach the car; he’s got one of those automatic unlocking devices on his car and, by the time the crowd have caught up with us, I am in the front seat buckling on the seat belt and he is starting the engine


    7. ’ She added cheekily as we turn into the nursery gate and join the crowd of young mums and not-so-young grannies waiting to collect the infants


    8. Theo turned from the crowd and smiled at his two superiors


    9. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd


    10. They do tend to crowd round

    11. "Just stating some questions I ponder," she said, "I'll have to go see for myself," and with that she disappeared into the crowd


    12. The sun is up and a rowdy crowd is gathered around a raised dais in a central square of the city


    13. Ricci tops the steps of the platform, looks back fearfully at the jeering, taunting crowd below


    14. Mohammed takes a step back from Ricci, turns to the crowd


    15. The crowd hoots and jeers


    16. Mohammed turns to the crowd


    17. The crowd hoots and jeers some more


    18. A CALL TO PRAYER filters through the hall from somewhere outside and the crowd instantly dissipates


    19. Since there was a crowd gathered, she stopped the probe to listen


    20. microscopic moment in the great dream, stood up and walked out from the crowd

    21. That lasted nearly nine months, I believe, by this time he was sharing a house with a mixed group – and they went around as a crowd much like he had in his teens


    22. The whole episode played out on a video screen, a new level in a deadly shooting game in which we were the canned crowd expected to applaud on cue


    23. During the first month, there was a crowd on the dance floor: about 45 persons had initially joined the class of beginners


    24. Looking at them from my place in the crowd, I am overcome with pride for them as they stand near the stone cross in the churchyard watching as representatives of the local organisations lay wreaths around its steps


    25. He loved children, wherever we went he’d draw a crowd of them, a bit like Fred does


    26. Then suddenly, my attention cuts to a bloodcurdling scream that pierces above the chatter of the crowd


    27. All those years spent watching others, all those years of anonymity in the crowd, came back to haunt me


    28. Thoughts forever crowd together in your head, obscuring any clear view of the world


    29. But he knew one thing, if this crowd gave him an opportunity to slip out of this horizon, he was going to take it and get as deep into the cracks of their logic as he could


    30. The same Jesus that made a whip out of cords and drove out the moneychangers is now afraid? The same Jesus that was nearly pushed off of a cliff and yet walked right through the crowd is now afraid? The same Jesus that told His disciples not to be afraid of the Jews because they can’t cast your soul into hell is now suddenly afraid? That isn’t what was happening in the garden of Gethsemane

    31. The king raised his hand and the crowd


    32. “¡Long live the King!” the crowd began to shout


    33. The mammals came and one of them, born of just a single microscopic moment in the great dream, stood up and walked out from the crowd


    34. cheerfully at the crowd of neighbours who had gathered


    35. They pick you out of the crowd, fix you


    36. As they approached, Kate watched Daniel work the crowd


    37. ” She pointed to where Daniel was amid a crowd of people, talking and gesturing wildly


    38. A small crowd of children and idle onlookers has gathered on the quay to watch the boat as it prepares to sail; I scan their faces wondering if any of them know who I am, half looking for the men who chased me through the streets of Ercolano


    39. and shove of the crowd my driving,


    40. Outside the Alderfolk Chambers there was a crowd of folk

    41. Poopsie Rhinochunks was in the crowd


    42. of searing heat into the crowd, chilling the sweat on our faces


    43. ‘What now?’ I asked, as we pause in the shadows of a building, ‘It would be impossible detecting our … our ‘friends’ in that crowd


    44. There was a lively crowd of country folk in and around the place


    45. They were playing as much to the village square as the inn and as much of the crowd was outside as in


    46. and the sounds of the crowd wash over her


    47. under the sound of the crowd


    48. It was a pleasant press of warm bodies getting in there for there was quite a crowd


    49. The crowd presses in,


    50. a day when the slowing of the crowd














































    1. A simple trip to the grocery store will be filled with episodes of bad drivers, poorly-timed traffic lights, crowded aisles, indifferent checkout clerks, and thin plastic grocery bags that rip too easily


    2. · Take the back road instead of the main crowded road


    3. Before dawn they would enter the interconnects, the way would be crowded and there would be current, not a good combination with way too much power


    4. doostEr always went the back way to Taktor's, it was longer but a lot less crowded


    5. It was a such a crowded streetcar that they had to take opposite sides


    6. The three of them were still not too crowded on the plank he had set up over the front truck of the rockasaur but the gear shelf behind it was overflowing


    7. The corner at the strong bridge was worse and more crowded than he remembered


    8. Hamo pours drinks for everyone as his driver cruises the narrow, crowded streets of Jedana


    9. The aftermath of exertion, in my depleted state, always took the form of a waking doze, during which the space created in my crowded head gradually filled up again


    10. The powerful craft was much easier to maneuver at high speed on open water than at a crawl in crowded chop

    11. This silicon was crowded, but if they pushed the fabrication unit, they might get a little ahead


    12. "Yeah, but I thought I should be by myself while I recover, instead I found Vyinga's boat a little crowded


    13. By the light of week Ekendosa, the countryside was crowded but lovely, neat little farms beneath big-frond archwoods along the bank between meanders, little towns on the deep side of just about every meander, beaches on the other side


    14. That evening, with a four pack empty on the already crowded coffee table, their mother subjected both of the children to another verbal assault while their father sat slumped in an alcoholic stupor in front of the television


    15. “Well, doll, time to be on our way”, said the young busker and he lead his bride by the hand through the crowded and dusty city streets


    16. Cyberia soon realised that the normally confused menace presented by a group of teenagers in a crowded car park was nothing like the real, in your face, blade wielding menace that they could deliver on the corner of a quiet, backwater city street


    17. ‘Earth is very crowded, Berndt


    18. It was sunny here and day-bloom crowded the larorlie along their front wall


    19. The people crowded round the crates cursing, grumbling to one another and waving their arms, unable to believe their eyes


    20. Of the many residents crowded two and sometimes three to a

    21. The mob crowded over him


    22. That evening, with a four pack empty on the already crowded


    23. he lead his bride by the hand through the crowded and dusty city


    24. by a group of teenagers in a crowded car park was nothing like the


    25. It makes them think they are crowded together


    26. They had jumped into crowded pools of sharks and the disorientation of


    27. Their civilization was crowded, but had never come as far in its collapse as America’s


    28. The beach was not as pretty as hers, and was made of rounded pebbles instead of soft sand, but it was still cooling after the heat of the day and not so crowded that she felt self conscious


    29. of the street, and the narrow open space in between so crowded that


    30. Zharvai crowded close on the dam, making use of water power and it’s position at the mouth of the interconnects

    31. The public bar was crowded with farm hands, all smoking and


    32. Tom rapidly wormed his way through the crowded bar, purchased


    33. the public bar, which was not particularly crowded and where their


    34. After another hour on this crowded residential canal behind North Beach he was getting stiff from the tiller and turning in the seat to handle it


    35. getting crowded in their forests, so they started spreading down to the


    36. All of them were crowded and all the crowds had stopped to clutch the balcony rails, staring wide-eyed directly at you out of the canvas


    37. entering the usually crowded room used as an office and mess for the


    38. This level has mid-block streets, but they intersected indoor commercial streets at each end of the bridge and it was crowded


    39. The hallways and elevators were crowded, most people who knew him in these halls knew him as professor Mithrandir who taught Troubled Times History of the Ttharmine Basin 218 (The Dark Lord and his fall) and 221 (The Wars of Magic and their aftermath), both very popular courses that he taught faithfully until the starship age


    40. The Smoking Lounge was more crowded this evening than it had been in the late morning

    41. They had just gotten to the next car when the crowded passageway slowed their progress


    42. A frenetic city searching for an identity looked back at them as they alternately rumbled beside avenues of the wealthy in their bright Victorian enclaves, then through the crowded and filthy streets of broken buildings, poverty and desolation


    43. It seemed like at least half of that mile was steps and the path was crowded


    44. As he picked his way amongst the crowded streets of


    45. was crowded as he entered, but the man’s fiery red hair


    46. Mike was slow to respond to her entrance, but then again making his way around the crowded kitchen, was a feat in itself


    47. “Two are never crowded and I’m not even that close


    48. “I take it people don’t like crowded up where you’re from?” She asked


    49. Suddenly every one crowded about her asking how the progress was coming


    50. How would she know, Emma pondered? She enjoyed the comments but shunned all the attention – the more people who crowded about them, the closer she stuck to Jim














































    1. stop crowding out life with fears,


    2. The lads are already crowding out the bar, yelling orders and intimidating some of the tourists


    3. The words that fled from him as he stood by the door are now crowding into his skull, jostling for position, desperate to gain access to the thin atmosphere that Billy is breathing


    4. His hallucinations were crowding out all reality


    5. In spite of the crowding, it was a good time for them


    6. They appeared to be crowding around something


    7. The rest of the prisoners were crowding closer now, spurred on by the woman’s confidence, itching with questions, eyes begging him to pay attention


    8. The moon had come up, and silvery light illuminated the canneries, warehouses, and docks crowding the waterfront


    9. Other rats silently appeared, crowding in behind the first


    10. “Camera one,” said Stan, with the others crowding at his shoulder to watch

    11. Could she still get down onto the ramp and over to the platform before the water cut her off? She had earlier decided to stay where she was, it had seemed the only safe thing to do with all the crowding down there, and now the time of choosing, she was sure, had already come and gone


    12. Walking past their gates, you could see red, yellow and pink heavy-headed blossoms crowding the pathways and scrambling over every little fence like so many unruly schoolchildren


    13. will help relieve crowding in existing treat-


    14. "Finally I passed through a place where individuals appeared much as they do today-men and women-but satisfied with their position [rather than crowding toward the light]


    15. already demonstrated by crowding her car on the street


    16. “You’ll have to pardon the crowding and the bustle all about, but the ship is being renovated, refitted, stocked, and prepared to sail, all simultaneously


    17. What I objected to was an increasing use of general board-initiated funds directed to environmental activism crowding out other grant categories


    18. Smiling, she answered the questions crowding his head


    19. Crowding in closer, everyone seemed to be talking at once


    20. The guards had beaten a hasty retreat, crowding into the small guard shelter, while the quartermaster slammed shut the door to the food supplies

    21. “It’ll speed things up and reduce crowding


    22. Too late, they realized all of them could not escape by crowding onto the steep incline at once


    23. In the sudden press of the crowding and shoving, Moshe careened over the stern and only


    24. Crowding in closer,


    25. The guards had beaten a hasty retreat, crowding into the small guard shelter, while the


    26. “I told her I am not used to having little ones crowding around my ankles, but I am willing to try the experience


    27. realized all of them could not escape by crowding onto the steep incline at once


    28. Yngvild saw hundreds of faces, all men, crowding the grassy field below her


    29. I began to feel exhausted from the weight of the fault that was crowding in my shoulders


    30. His words far from calming me down infuriated me crowding the anger in my cheeks

    31. Beatrice opposite to her temperament, had remained without speech, her generally white complexion had turned scarlet, with the flushes of the anger crowding in the cheeks


    32. A new opportunity for me, a renewal; the feelings were crowding me hoping to be translated into words


    33. Some farmers began to crowding at the gates of The Fortaleza to be present at the interrogation


    34. He had not noticed so before, but tiny translucent fish seemed to be everywhere in the pool, suddenly crowding around his exposed skin


    35. weeds crowding through the red brick path


    36. He didn't want people crowding in the room


    37. Wheeling, the giants saw a disreputable throng crowding the arch


    38. A broad lane was left to the open gate, beyond which loomed the black forest, crowding sullenly in upon the clearing, unlighted by the fires


    39. of the outsized monster crowding


    40. The crowding is so bad horses can't stand up properly

    41. In an increasingly crowding world with demand for space, wood, mineral resources and meat, apes will continue to disappear


    42. crowding, starvation and dehydration, threats by guards, loss of


    43. � A woman in her early thirties answered, with a little girl crowding in the doorway besides her


    44. I looked up but he had turned and before I could say anything, had climbed the pyramid steps and entered the temple, the whole thing seemed like some horrible dream, the child he had sent out from this temple was now a man, a man who intended to see this priest pay for his treachery, then every one was crowding around me clapping my back and congratulating me, then I saw Jodas and shouting above the clamour I asked him were Coatl had gone, he told me, with a long face that Gled had taken him and my bundles home to see my mother, so I grabbed his arm and calling to the Xocanti warriors we walked after Gled, this seemed to cheer Jodas up, he started to chatter like the monkeys in the tree-tops, I paid him little attention, I was wondering why the high priest should betray me to the Mixtec and show such hatred toward me, I had no indication of the depth or reason for the venom directed at my family, I had never liked him, none of my friends had either, the priest had never been known to laugh or show any warmth to anybody, so thankfully I very rarely came into contact with him, but for all his cunning he had been outsmarted and fallen into the Santaros trap laid by my mother, and I swore he would pay for that treachery and he would also pay for the threat he had just whispered in my ear, he would regret making an enemy of me, I was no longer the juvenile he thought I was


    45. � Further crowding the small bridge was the Bristol Factories engineer who had directed the building of the hovercraft under Nancy�s supervision, a Royal Navy commander from the Admiralty whose task was to officially record the trial performances of the hovercraft, the helmsman, two bridge signalers manning the radios and two watch seamen


    46. ����������� Captain Jones and his crew were crowding the open bridge and the deck to watch with intense interest the approach of the experimental craft


    47. � As calmly as she could, she turned the page over and looked at it, her four assistants and Jennifer crowding around her


    48. They had metal strikers across the front edge of each step to keep them from getting worn, I guess, and the stairway was wide enough for four people to walk up them abreast without crowding each other


    49. Intrigued by the crowding, Vandenberg approached the TV set and joined the twenty or so men listening to what proved to be a news flash


    50. When the image switched to a view over the bar counter, he pressed the 'pause' button and they all studied the faces of the people crowding the small room












































    1. Sam was surprised at the crowds at the Oodle Festival, held just outside Berlin in the July of that year


    2. I stand and direct the crowds that surge through the shallows of


    3. It's hard keeping any of the old ways alive, we're just so few, even here in a near wilderness there are cities close by where we are lost in the crowds


    4. A glance at the clock speedily obliterated her self-satisfaction and set her running … her train was due to leave in five minutes’ time! Safely on the train, though still panting from the exercise and more than a little overwhelmed by the crowds of commuters thronging the station subways, she settled herself in a seat and, leaning her head against the headrest, closed her eyes, forcing herself to relax


    5. ‘That’s him!’ she whispered to Iain, waving at the man in question now busy scanning the crowds


    6. I stand and direct the crowds that surge through the shallows of our old world on waves of violence


    7. for the silence of crowds and a bloody great gin,


    8. "The Angels have an eye permanently mounted in the sky that will watch that ship until the crowds of Shempala confuse it


    9. In the crowds on these feverish streets


    10. “I have no more money”, I whispered and he laughed the crowds away

    11. They had to hold hands to keep from getting lost in the dark and the crowds


    12. you survey the crowds that line this personal,


    13. whipping the crowds into shape


    14. I had been warned that there would be a large number of people at the ceremony, but even that did not prepare me for the crowds which are gathered outside the Gotteshouse and the amount of attention I personally attract


    15. Then he spotted a boy working his way down a line of parked cars, who was taking advantage of the crowds to steal the radiator badges from the more expensive sporting models


    16. Crowds of people – mostly women, I notice – bustle about with baskets, their raucous ripostes to the chatter of the costers much as I have seen in some of the street markets of London


    17. Every bench seat was taken and there were crowds of people standing in the aisles


    18. The next day, with the show ground full to bursting with every type of plant, with new roses, new fuscias, begonias, hostas and hebe, with the walkways full to bursting with eager competitors and excited crowds, the judging commenced


    19. As old Ted signed the contract for his new television programme, as the crowds cheered again and again, no one noticed the furious argument taking place between the judges


    20. At a signal from the Archbishop of Canterbury silence fell upon the assembled crowds

    21. On Pani's island I'd grown used to pushing my way forward in crowds, and knew how much tolerance I was allowed in heated argument


    22. hobbled and rolled towards the safety of the crowds in the nearest


    23. line of parked cars, who was taking advantage of the crowds to


    24. crowds, the judging commenced


    25. At last, with the sun at its full height and with the crowds


    26. programme, as the crowds cheered again and again, no one noticed


    27. She had to be overwhelmed, all alone in the infinite crowds of this urban universe


    28. Even so, it was not all that dissimilar to the crowds in the village


    29. All of them were crowded and all the crowds had stopped to clutch the balcony rails, staring wide-eyed directly at you out of the canvas


    30. This missed the crowds on the eleventh floor indoor street

    31. The crowds were in constant motion


    32. Harry wrenched his gaze from the crowds and boards to follow him to the awaiting carriage, now loaded with their things


    33. “What about him?” She pointed out the window to a big Troll wheeling a hand-fork thru the crowds of the dock


    34. No one stayed with the shop for Dusksleep and this industrial byway was far from the crowds of evening


    35. Miles of multistory ceramic and grown structure, surging crowds, The big docks they had already seen actually sent traffic four stories deep into the face of the mountain


    36. She would anyway, she was much more intimate with the people here than the crowds at the Lappranile


    37. They went thru crowds of people, warm bodies pressing close in many places


    38. sky, and the crowds weren’t too horrendous


    39. The crowds were growing as I


    40. The crowds could make it take an hour to work their way across the Hyadrain Valley

    41. canals, lanes and courtyards of the town, sans crowds


    42. saw crowds of people gathering in the field


    43. crowds were healing the sick, giving accurate words of


    44. mannerisms, they lured crowds with itching ears to themselves,


    45. He got extremely frustrated with the crowds around the Conchidenabla and the maze above Hill Circle


    46. "As it gets late and the crowds thin, we'll find some cooks still out where there's a bathroom


    47. "But on all the streets? In all the crowds? I thought of you any time I saw your name," he said


    48. There he landed and disappeared into the crowds


    49. Their main task would be to control the crowds expected to throng to the area to witness whatever events were lined up


    50. They faced the crowds and would spot any disorder quickly and deal with the matter efficiently














































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    Synonyms for "crowd"

    crowd bunch crew gang crowd together herd push run masses rank and file mob populace proletariat rabble throng company concourse drove gathering flock circle set clique coterie assemble troop flock together swarm squeeze jam ram cram stuff charge cramp force

    "crowd" definitions

    a large number of things or people considered together


    an informal body of friends


    cause to herd, drive, or crowd together


    fill or occupy to the point of overflowing


    to gather together in large numbers


    approach a certain age or speed