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1. It was on that third day, as evening approached, that he suddenly found himself surrounded by a throng of surprised crewmen, most of them surprised to find themselves clad in formal robes and turbans, all walking along the colonnade of the Haadij toward what could only be the amphitheater
2. It was incinerating dragons as it passed thru the throng
3. The sound swells, becomes more complex and, as the non-Gottesmen drop out, transforms gradually into a peaceful, lyrical hymn casting a blessing over the assembled throng
4. She heard snippets of conversations as she passed thru the throng of women
5. Before another song began, I weaved through the throng, aware that all eyes were on me and so moved cautiously to avoid any undue sacrilege
6. I returned through the throng and found to my delight that she was still there
7. Even in the afternoon hustle and bustle of the tourist throng, the
8. Alastair is deep in conversation with Ben who is sitting by him and Trish is busy helping Leo, so, relieved of my social duties for a moment, I have a chance to look round the table at the gathered throng
9. into the heaving throng, but no matter how many
10. As the train pulled into the Union Station at 3:25 in the afternoon, the unending clackety-clack of their journey yielded to the bustling throng and controlled chaos of the station and the streets beyond
11. meandered his way through the throng selling their
12. we squeezed through the throng
13. Behind him, a throng of ragged children piled into the city
14. The throng of lifeless flooded the walkway, and spilled into the city, where they satiated their hunger within the very streets of Lock Core
15. He began picking through the throng of disfigured amputees, searching for the man's only truly distinguishing feature
16. amongst the throng of workers
17. and weaved his way through the throng
18. The only thing moving was a throng of undead seeping through the newly created breach
19. throng the dust-filled streets, and was sure he had the
20. Trying to turn her away would have been useless, not to mention time-consuming, and judging from the throng of demons arrayed near Tetloan, the three of them had far too little time left
21. Their main task would be to control the crowds expected to throng to the area to witness whatever events were lined up
22. Once on the platform he stopped to survey the area and the gathered throng
23. But as she watched the charismatic yet notably aloof Chaerea retreat back into the throng of mourners, she was stunned by the appearance of a somewhat unexpected face: the Emperor Titus Mede II himself
24. Smoke twisted and rose from the spitting fires and she still could not make out much in the growing throng of curious soldiers
25. Marley rushed out of the truck to quickly disappear in the throng but Joss and I took our time, the apprehension obvious in both of us
26. He is among a throng of girls, parents, and luggage that exits the school building’s side door and makes its way out to the parking lot where there is some last minute chit-chat, the honking of horns, and waving good-bye
27. Children chased each other, played tag, teased one another, then became interested in the animals joining the throng
28. We entered the Golden Gate with a throng of others
29. noise like hollow thunder the magazine emptied itself into the throng of miscreants and whores
30. Longleaf blanched, but quickly pressed a coin into the sailor’s wrinkled hand for his time and pushed on through the throng
31. In the center of the throng, a young man stood locked into a pillory, wrists and neck bound by heavy timbers
32. “Somewhere down in that throng are two dozen of our younglings, bound together by a neck harness
33. There were gasps and yelps and cries from the throng, which included many of the brave villagers who’d gone after the kidnappers
34. Holding a paw aloft, Grindel implored the throng to silence once more
35. When the throng had finally shouted themselves out, Grindel spoke his next words carefully, assuaging them with his reasoned argument
36. The throng waited for the Preceptor to appear, impatiently fidgeting and murmuring in subdued voices
37. Heads turned and the throng immediately took up the Custodian's name
38. The throng swept her to a parade marching up Second Avenue such as she had never seen
39. The chauffeur cut the wheel sharply from one side to the other cursing under his breath as he inched forward trying to nudge the car through the milling throng
40. A concession along one wall offering hot food and cold beverages was doing a brisk business and prisoners wandered through the milling throng peddling handicrafts
41. to the Kinsman throng on the platform as the train pulled
42. As soon as he cleared the door, he plopped his bags to the floor directly in front of the doorway and began scanning the throng behind the barriers, all craning their necks for a first glimpse of whomever they waited for to come out of the arrivals gate
43. What was going on in the background, behind the approaching throng of Memphis zombie demon thralls, as far as I could tell, was pure mayhem
44. Shortly afterwards, another truck arrived carrying a five-piece band, and when the doors opened at seven, the waiting throng quickly filled the PX to capacity
45. As they stood talking, a few of the passing throng stopped to listen and add their own comments
46. Outside, a throng clamored for attention
47. ” He snatched the cash and disappeared into the throng around the bus
48. A couple of men that were standing closer to her almost isolated from the throng of people, must have heard her and turned to look
49. A few had sought to follow, as Zoran anxiously put distance between his family and the milling throng, but the others hadn’t seemed prepared
50. The feast itself had been enthusiastically devoured by the great throng who surrounded her central position
1. The streets thronged with revellers and the abbey was illuminated in the glorious ambers and reds of candles and torchlight
2. The streets thronged with
3. As our crowd thronged through the gate, we saw courtyards so large our town of Nazareth could be set in them many times over
4. Beyond an occasional drumming, all was quiet in the native quarter, and the streets were thronged as usual by the proletarian Ashantis and slaves, though the upper classes did not show themselves much
5. The causeways, usually thronged, showed only a trickle of traffic
6. The streets were thronged with cheering crowds, flowers or colored carpets hung from every window
7. Roger and his companions observed this impressive parade from a department store, for it was impossible to do that in the streets, which were thronged with admirers bursting with joy and enthusiasm
8. They added great colour to the event that was also thronged with tourists, some of whom followed on there from the Tralee Festival
9. Soon the Passover would be celebrated at Jerusalem; the city would be thronged with visitors
10. As a result of his spreading abroad the news that Jesus had healed him, the Master was so thronged by the sick that he was forced to rise early the next day and leave the village
11. One moment the whole desert was hidden with the rolling fleecy billows, piled mountainously, stratum above stratum; the next, the sun shone from a cloudless sky on a naked desert —no longer empty, but thronged with the living pageantry of war
12. 2 While the house was thus thronged with people and entirely surrounded by eager listeners, a man long afflicted with paralysis was carried down from Capernaum on a small couch by his friends
13. Most of that day he was thronged by those who came in response to the word that Amos had been cured, and who were attracted by the story that the demons had gone out of the lunatic into the herd of swine
14. The square thronged with people
15. The ancient caravan road was thronged with white-robed horsemen, in a wavering line that stretched from the walls of Khauran to a spot far out in the plain
16. As he came into the waist the crew thronged about him Zingarans, all of them, half naked, their gaudy silk garments splashed with tar, jewels glinting in ear-rings and dagger-hilts
17. He hurled the hilt at the figures which thronged the arch, and bounded toward the pool, his face a convulsed mask of hate
18. He made no request of Jesus for healing, but the Master knew full well that this afflicted man came to this breakfast hoping thereby to escape the crowds which thronged him and thus be more likely to engage his attention
19. Then a medley of voices reached his ears, and the room was thronged with the finally roused people of the court—knights, peers, ladies, men-at- arms, councillors—all babbling and shouting and getting in one another's way
20. The palace was thronged with wide-eyed, trembling servitors, but the chamber where the king lay was empty save for himself and the renegade priest
21. Blows and abuse and hellish suffering were avenged in one red gust of fury that raged like a typhoon from one end of the ship to the other, and when it had blown itself out, but one white man lived aboard the Venturer, and that was the blood-stained giant about whom the chanting blacks thronged to cast themselves prostrate on the bloody deck and beat their heads against the boards in an ecstasy of hero-worship
22. It resulted from a growing population which thronged the steppes west of the inland sea—which still later, much reduced in size, was known as the Caspian—to such an extent that migration became an economic necessity
23. The lower part of the sky-blue walls had been thronged with thick specks of dust caused by heavy rains in the past few days
24. They thronged into the pub, taking off coats, scarves and
25. thronged about Him, the Pharisees were filled with
26. The other elves are thronged around Beatrice
27. The night heralding Election Day witnessed more increase in the number of visitors that thronged our compound, but this time around heavily built young men, with large shoulders and macho man physics virtually took over our premises
28. A crowd had thronged for the event, having heard of the terrible man, the infamous murderer, kidnapper, rapist…mercenary
29. Within moments they were thronged by the mill-
30. that most of the city’s population thronged the riotous
31. People, my people, were thronged around us as we passed through the village
32. Me, Gavin and twenty others made our way through the packed masses of the villagers who thronged all around us
33. More foreigners than Indian thronged the ashram
34. "A woman drowning! A woman drowning!" shouted dozens of voices; people ran up, both banks were thronged with spectators, on the bridge people crowded about Raskolnikov, pressing up behind him
35. So many journalists thronged to the school that day that it turned into a news studio
36. But this was not so easy a matter, for the streets were thronged with people, and Rome was already a prey to that low and feverish murmur which precedes all great events; and at Rome there are four great events in every year,—the Carnival, Holy Week, Corpus Christi, and the Feast of St
37. Duncan found it difficult to assume the necessary appearance of unconcern, as he brushed the dark and powerful frames of the savages who thronged its threshold; but, conscious that his existence depended on his presence of mind, he trusted to the discretion of his companion, whose footsteps he closely followed, endeavoring, as he proceeded, to rally his thoughts for the occasion
38. The children of the Male and Female Foundling Hospital who thronged the windows overlooking the scene were delighted with this unexpected addition to the day's entertainment and a word of praise is due to the Little Sisters of the Poor for their excellent idea of affording the poor fatherless and motherless
39. The shops were all brilliantly lighted for the display of their Christmas stores, and the pavements and even the carriageways were thronged with sightseers
40. All the windows are thronged with sightseers, chiefly ladies
41. He also yielded to none in his admiration of Rossini's Stabat Mater, a work simply abounding in immortal numbers, in which his wife, Madam Marion Tweedy, made a hit, a veritable sensation, he might safely say, greatly adding to her other laureis and putting the others totally in the shade, in the jesuit fathers' church in upper Gardiner street, the sacred edifice being thronged to the doors to hear her with virtuosos, or
42. already thronged with the craftsmen and other plebeian
43. As the sacred edifice was too much thronged to admit another auditor, she took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory
44. These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness
45. It was quiet by comparison with the old days, when hundreds of visitors and thousands of townspeople thronged not just
46. What seas lay beyond, green, leaping, and crested! What sun-bathed coasts, along which the white villas glittered against the olive woods! What quiet harbours, thronged with gallant shipping bound for purple islands of wine and spice, islands set low in languorous waters!
47. When he had finished with his speech, the governor walked out of the hall, and the noblemen noisily and eagerly—some even enthusiastically —followed him and thronged round him while he put on his fur coat and conversed amicably with the marshal of the province
48. Snetkov came in, and the nobles thronged round him, congratulating him
49. When Nevyedovsky went out of the room, the crowd thronged round him and followed him enthusiastically, just as they had followed the governor who had opened the meetings, and just as they had followed Snetkov when he was elected
50. one goal, they thronged whirling through his head,
1. 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
2. Rather than heading towards Krakow, they took the road eastward until they reached the first place that was worthy to be called a town, where they joined the crowd thronging its market
3. He raised his glass and toasted Harry in front of Becky, “To your good health Harry,” and then headed off into the thronging crowd of suits to mingle some more
4. 11 And a woman which had a flow of blood for twelve years had suffered much of many physicians and spent all that she had and was not benefited at all but her trouble increased further; And when she heard of Jesus she came in the thronging of the crowd behind him and touched a his garments; and she thought within herself If I could reach to touch his garments I should live; And immediately the fountain of her blood was dried; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her plague; And Jesus straightway knew within himself that power had gone out of him; and he turned to the crowd and said Who approached to my garmentse And on their denying all of them Simon Cephas and those with him said to him Our Master the multitudes throng you and press you and say you Who approached to me? And he said Some one approached to me; and I knew that power went out from me; And that woman when she saw that she was not hid from him came fearing and agitated (for she knew what had happened to her) and fell down and worshipped him and told in the presence of all the people for what reason she touched him and how she was healed immediately; And Jesus said to her Be of good courage daughter; your faith has made you alive; depart in peace and be whole from your plague
5. From the yacht, the land is a passing delight of forested hills and mountains, rocky headlands, hidden beaches and coves, palm fringed shores, exotic old cities overlooked by ruined chateaus, beaches thronging with scantily clad, bronzed young bodies… freedom inaccessible to those trapped aboard the throbbing prison of a ship
6. “And the King saw Song ahead of a million dancing feet thronging to the rhythm of insurrection and vigilantism, calling out in the euphoria of revolution's transcendence for his head to be the ceremonial feast of their peace offering
7. As a result; the younger generation rebels blindly against all of society’s meaningless complexity by indiscriminately rejecting all thinking, all information, all education, and thronging to movies like Dumb and Dumberer
8. And the crowds thronging the streets cheered
9. The thronging band of souls;
10. A crowd of women were thronging round the door; some were sitting on the steps, others on the pavement, others were standing talking
11. This repetition checked the rising up of fresh images and memories, which he felt were thronging in his brain
12. Then she men thronging about her, he would be newly impressed with the fact that every one of would make him happy again by letting him discover that, popular though she was, she preferred him above any other man in all the world
13. But in this period, Atlanta was more ill bred and thronging in from all directions, the streets were choked and noisy from morning till
14. near; for they said that it was a trysting-place of the Shadow-men, and there they would gather in times of fear, thronging round the Stone and whispering
15. A retreating regiment, thronging and hurrying, blocked the street
16. While the troops, dividing into two parts when passing around the Kremlin, were thronging the Moskva and the Stone bridges, a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealthily and silently past the church of Vasili the Beatified and under the Borovitski gate, back up the hill to the Red Square where some instinct told them they could easily take things not belonging to them
17. The go-between, the emissary, had been lost in the wild thronging of civilization, probably hit by a car, or poisoned, or stolen, and there was no time
18. "Retreating into the shadows of a doorway she awaited the coming of the cavalcade which shortly entered the avenue, breaking its formation and thronging the thoroughfare from wall to wall
19. How I loved those moments in our metaphysical discussions (discussions which formed the major portion of our intercourse) when thoughts came thronging faster and faster, and, succeeding one another at lightning speed, and growing more and more abstract, at length attained such a pitch of elevation that one felt powerless to express them, and said something quite different from what one had intended at first to say! How I liked those moments, too, when, carried higher and higher into the realms of thought, we suddenly felt that we could grasp its substance no longer and go no further!
20. It was a bright, clear day, and many of the visitors were thronging about the tombs, which were particularly numerous round the church and scattered here and there about the hermitage
21. In the crowd thronging at the entrance to the cell, he had noticed Alyosha and he remembered that he had felt at once a pang at heart on seeing him
22. “It’s burning, it’s burning!” cried all, thronging nearer and nearer to the fire in their excitement
23. Aglaya brought out these thronging words with great satisfaction
24. Men in clean coats and shining boots, liberated from the factories, it being Sunday, and women with bright silk kerchiefs on their heads and cloth jackets trimmed with jet, were already thronging at the door of the traktir
25. While the troops, dividing into two parts when passing around the Krémlin, were thronging the Moskvá and the Stone bridges, a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealthily and silently past the church of Vasíli the Beatified and under the Borovítski gate, back up the hill to the Red Square where some instinct told them they could easily take things not belonging to them
26. The thronging loungers were gaping in true New York “lower class” awe; the children were literally swelling with delighted vanity
27. “Pale ghosts of a passionate past come thronging,” at times, to them perhaps; more likely they join with their companions in cynically singing:
1. One evening, after the throngs had again deserted the
2. The word soon spread and throngs collected at the theater on the hillside east of Polis
3. Did she miss the bustle of the city; the sense of being among throngs of people
4. The red-haired woman stood amongst the throngs of sweating, dirty prisoners
5. Many in the harbor, however, were amused to see a Man and three Halflings running across the wharves frantically, weaving in and out of the throngs
6. “Yes, Uther has chosen to return to London, to rejoin the throngs there,” she admitted
7. without: the gayety of the throngs in city streets, where the brilliant
8. Then they set into measured motion, moving step-by-step down the polished steps, across the open courtyard through the throngs
9. Raine McLennan had become a fixture on Orcas in the summertime, offering sought-after, colorful descriptions of past, present and future life experiences for the throngs of tourists who haunted this beautiful island every year
10. Three times, she hobbled through the crowded open square, which was simply a block in the pueblo’s center without buildings, trees, or pavement: just a hot, lumpy, dusty, place where buses arrived, departed and throngs of people milled about
11. the pope will be addressing the throngs of
12. throngs of adherents at St
13. Patients will come to him in throngs
14. There are throngs of people
15. But his mind wandered back to the city streets: the noise, throngs of people, the silky layer of soot that covered everything
16. 5 Jesus passed on through Jerusalem, only pausing to look upon the temple and the gathering throngs of visitors
17. 8 Presently the time of the Passover drew near, and along with the throngs from every quarter there arrived at Jerusalem from Capernaum, Zebedee and his entire family
18. " By this time throngs were arriving from Galilee and the Decapolis
19. But John continued to preach with great power, and his disciples began at about this time to preach to the overflowing throngs which gathered around John at the Jordan
20. The next day as the monks unbolted the door to let the throngs of tourists in, he changed and mingled with the crowds as he planned his escape route and, he knew that even with his inside contact, he only had a limited window of opportunity, as the Prime Master would be back the following day
21. " And then Jesus began the recital of the parable of the sower, one of the first of a long series of such parables which he taught the throngs that followed after him
22. Jesus spoke to them in the early afternoon after the preaching of Peter, and when he had finished, he said to his apostles: "I am weary of the throngs; let us cross over to the other side that we may rest for a day
23. At night the impressive spectacle of the temple and its pilgrim throngs was brilliantly illuminated by the great candelabras which burned brightly in the court of the women as well as by the glare of scores of torches standing about the temple courts
24. These cast a flickering, uncertain light over the clearing, and in that light they saw throngs of naked, painted figures along the fringe of the clearing
25. Meanwhile, David Zebedee and some of his former messenger associates took it upon themselves to hasten on down to Jerusalem, where they effectively spread the report among the throngs of visiting pilgrims about the temple that Jesus of Nazareth was making a triumphal entry into the city
26. In swift-moving scenes the pageant of his life passed fleetingly before his mental eye—a panorama wherein moved shadowy figures which were himself, in many guises and conditions—a skin-clad barbarian; a mercenary swordsman in horned helmet and scale-mail corselet; a corsair in a dragon-prowed galley that trailed a crimson wake of blood and pillage along southern coasts; a captain of hosts in burnished steel, on a rearing black charger; a king on a golden throne with the lion banner flowing above, and throngs of gay-hued courtiers and ladies on their knees
27. But no throngs swarmed the white-paved streets to fling roses before the conqueror's hoofs
28. He recounted their experiences in Galilee when time and again great throngs of people enthusiastically followed them around and then just as ardently turned against them and returned to their former ways of believing and living
29. He entered the city unquestioned, merging himself with the throngs that poured continually in and out of this great commercial center
30. be heard many came in throngs
31. throngs but before he sunk down
32. As the giant statue's roar could be heard many came in throngs
33. The reverence and concentration of the throngs told a story of hope for tomorrow – a story of triumph – a story of pulling together – a story of splendor and real democracy
34. Terence froze and turned his head in that direction to see a familiar figure making his way carefully through the throngs of guests and slowly approaching him; 145
35. If he comes up here he'll be mobbed by the throngs
36. The ride over was delayed by throngs of people gathering at the terminal, from the best we could tell, all in support of Bob
37. How had interspersed throngs of civilian Lincran peasants managed to overthrow the well-funded and generally indomitable KULMOOG you ask? Everything happened while we were away on Garbotron
38. “Viva le France!” She pumped a fist into the air and, by the time she got within shouting distance of the throngs of people partying in the streets, she was confident she could find Ahndray without anybody recognizing her
39. Ribbons, hats, cheese, beer, napkins, plates, even full glasses of champagne went flying into the air as throngs of guests mobbed the beaming couple
40. Somehow he’d managed to stay away from the throngs of reporters, with their prying cameras and microphones
41. floor-suite and watched below as throngs of Christmas shoppers made their way through the
42. There, he would on average work for the next ten hours at the end of which he would rejoin the public throngs to fight his way home
43. The first cart was an open topped chariot with some green-robed women standing in it, throwing red and yellow petals out towards the throngs of people on either side of the street
44. Both throngs of fans knew that this was a critical face-off
45. phenomenally successful; patients will come to him in throngs
46. paid to the throngs pressed against the Battery railing
47. She placed them on the table and sat in an old chair he had found among the cluttered throngs of furniture in the cramped space
48. He discerns not the unspeakable sorrow taking hold upon the unnumbered throngs of earth-born creatures as they realize themselves cut off forever from existence, from life, from eternal life, with its unfolding ages of bliss to the redeemed
49. When this necessary, and, happily, grateful duty had been performed, each of the foresters stooped and took a long and parting draught at that solitary and silent spring*, around which and its sister fountains, within fifty years, the wealth, beauty and talents of a hemisphere were to assemble in throngs, in pursuit of health and pleasure
50. I got out of my truck and walked through throngs of people, most of them unknown to me
