Use crowd in a sentence
Sentences ending with crowd
- The wordy war would not have ended so quickly, however, had not restlessness and alarm taken possession of the crowd. [10]
- Without saying a word Rostopchin rose and walked hastily to his light, luxurious drawing room, went to the balcony door, took hold of the handle, let it go again, and went to the window from which he had a better view of the whole crowd. [2]
- Philip drifted along with the crowd. [4]
- And the temptation will come to you, too, and their faith offers much that is attractive to the crowd. [10]
- Several approving voices were heard in the crowd. [2]
- Thousands of people were also roaming about in the great spaces of the edifice; but there was nowhere else anything like a crowd. [4]
- Janet pushed her way deeper and deeper into the crowd. [9]
- My brother's wife was astonished; and represented to her the hardships and fatigues of such a trip, and said my mother might possibly not even survive them; and said there could be no possible interest for her in such a meeting and such a crowd. [5]
- Just then there was a hush among the crowd. [9]
- The grey stone walls of the houses grew darker and darker, and seemed to close in on the dumfounded, hysterical crowd. [11]
Short sentences using crowd
- The crowd shouted with delight. [10]
- It drew a vast crowd. [5]
- The crowd heaved upon Ingolby. [11]
- A crowd collected there, too. [9]
- The crowd held their breath. [11]
- Carnac turned to the crowd. [11]
- No--the crowd is separating. [10]
- And the crowd roared again. [5]
- The crowd moved on again. [2]
- The crowd laughed in approval. [11]
Sentences containing crowd two or more times
- Impelled by the crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. [2]
- The Archbishop and a great deputation arrived; and after these came flock after flock, crowd after crowd, of citizens and country-folk, hurrahing, in, with banners and music, and flowed over the camp, one rejoicing inundation after another, everybody drunk with happiness. [5]
- A crowd begets a crowd, and soon the world's people made a city larger than the original one, and still more fantastic, by the aid of paint and the jigsaw. [4]
More example sentences with the word crowd in them
- We were passing your shops, and a big crowd of men were there, making a noise, shouting at a speaker. [9]
- The images of your manifold gods are everywhere to be seen; they crowd on our gaze, and yet who knows not that their real is not their apparent significance? [10]
- Some, no doubt, would rather have fought than have had peace at the price; but they could not free their minds from the sacred force which had brought most of the crowd of faction-fighters to their knees. [11]
- The only danger would lie in the crowd discovering us in this holy spot, where the Muezzin calls to prayer, and giving us what for, before he could interfere. [11]
- But no; he would crowd up around a point, hugging the shore with affection, and then say: 'The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China-trees; now we cross over. [5]
- There was nothing worthy of special note in the trip to Frederick, except our passing a squad of Rebel prisoners, whom I missed seeing, as they flashed by, but who were said to be a most forlorn-looking crowd of scarecrows. [6]
- The huntsmen assembled with their booty and their stories, and all came to look at the wolf, which, with her broad-browed head hanging down and the bitten stick between her jaws, gazed with great glassy eyes at this crowd of dogs and men surrounding her. [2]
- The crowd sways with the rise and fall of the shifting, testimony, in sympathetic interest, and hangs upon the dicta of the judge in breathless silence. [5]
- Alexander and Napoleon, with the long train of their suites, approached the right flank of the Preobrazhensk battalion and came straight up to the crowd standing there. [2]
- A spy, mingling with the crowd, had laid hands on him, and the captain of the watch had forthwith hurried to the Serapeum to boast of a success which might confirm him in his yet uncertain position. [10]
- I saw Doltaire with Juste Duvarney spring swiftly to the side of Alixe, and, with her father, put her and Mademoiselle Lotbiniere into the pulpit, forming a ring round it, and preventing the crowd from trampling on them, as, suddenly gone mad, they swarmed past. [11]
- The crowd turned with half-apprehensive laughter to the trees. [11]
- The crowd hallooed with glee, as though they had found new life. [10]
- I am quite willing to answer any gentleman in the crowd who asks an intelligent question. [7]
- But I am willing to admit this much: we do crowd the orders a trifle when we get a chance, which is most of the time. [5]
- Soldiers and merchants, whose various ranks in society were betokened by the length of their white garments, bordered with colored fringes, were interspersed among the crowd of half-naked, sinewy men, whose only clothing consisted of an apron, the costume of the lower classes. [10]
- It was Virginia who had the presence of mind to slam the blinds in the faces of the troops, and the crowd had cheered her. [9]
- A poor rope-dancer, who had been robbed by a thief in the crowd, of the little tin box containing he pennies he had collected, was running about, ringing his hands and looking for the watchman. [10]
- Once in a while, as he found a way for them through the crowd, Peter glanced down at her, and something like a smile tugged at the corners of a decidedly masculine mouth, and lit up his eyes. [9]
- The favorite song, which the crowd compelled her to repeat, touched lightly the uncertainties of love, expressed in the falsetto pathetic refrain: "Mary's gone away wid de coon. [4]
- The great crowd which the "Fremersberg" had called out was another evidence that it was low-grade music; for only the few are educated up to a point where high-grade music gives pleasure. [5]
- Wherever we halted where there was a crowd, he would give me a look which said plainly: "if that thing could be tried over again now, with this kind of folk, you would see a different result. [5]
- At the moment when Virginie turned away with the handsome dish from M. Manotel, and the crowd cheered her gaily, she caught Jean-Jacques' eye, and she came straight towards him. [11]
- The next day when I saw Ingolby hand you out to the crowd from his arms, I got nasty--I have fits like that sometimes, when I've had a little too much liquor. [11]
- Shouts of approval were heard from the crowd around, and at the same moment a mounted patrol of French Uhlans appeared from round the corner. [2]
- To-night, the crowd were far more restless than usual, far more irritating in their purposeless movements. [11]
- Among the company were also Captains Martin, Archer, Wood, Webbe, Moore, King, Davis, and several gentlemen of good means, and a crowd of the riff-raff of London. [4]
- When the sun went down, and the busy crowd were about to leave, Nefert detained them, and said: "The Sun-bark is sinking behind the western hills; come, let us pray together for the king and for those we love in the field. [10]
- Such a well-dressed, well-satisfied, well-fed looking crowd poured down the broad sidewalks before the handsome, stupid houses that March could easily pretend he had got among his fellow-plutocrats at last. [8]
- But linger as we may, we cannot compress into a chapter--we could not crowd into a volume--all that passed through the minds and stirred the emotions of the awe-struck company which was gathered about the scene of danger and of terror. [6]
- As soon as we landed at the door with the crowd the Governor came to me at once and was very cordial, and apparently as glad to see me as he said he was. [5]
- The evening after we had left New York, while we were still off the coast of Long Island, I saw on the poop a crowd of steerage passengers listening intently to harangues by speakers addressing them from the top of a pile of life rafts. [9]
- Dicky picked his way through the crowd, and stood before the Sheikh-el-beled. [11]
- They worked their way through the billiard-room, where a crowd had gathered in the hope of getting a glimpse of the Extraordinary Man. [5]
- Having forced his way out of the crowd of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutuzov, saw on the slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing and Frenchmen running toward it. [2]
- The crowd made way for her, and she came smiling and bowing through the narrow human lane, with Betsy Hale, as escort and support, smiling and bowing in her wake, the audience breaking into welcoming cheers as the old favorites filed along. [5]
- Another still stronger wave flowed through the crowd and reaching the front ranks carried it swaying to the very steps of the porch. [2]
- Whatever the number was, the crowd was very great,--so great that one might well feel alarmed for the safety of any delicate person who was in the _pack_ which formed itself at one place in the course of the evening. [6]
- His first impulse was to have Dicky seized and cast to the crowd, to be torn to pieces. [11]
- After the dinner was the ball, and that ended, they took their places at the windows of a roam that looked out upon a square, where a platform was raised and a vast crowd was assembled to see the king's bears fight with greyhounds. [4]
- Poor Leos, who was somewhere in the crowd, looking as attentively as if he was searching for a needle in a haystack; here is stood, wondering to himself why Ambulinia was not there. [5]
- While the marshal was passing, the prisoners had huddled together in a crowd, and Pierre saw Karataev whom he had not yet seen that morning. [2]
- Joan's loyal soul was outraged, and she turned upon the preacher and flung out a few words with a spirit which the crowd recognized as being in accordance with the Joan of Arc traditions: "By my faith, sir! [5]
- The young guard was one fine tree among a grove of fine trees; but Marcus had something peculiar to himself, that distinguished him from the crowd, and which made him exceptionally attractive and lovable. [10]
- I knew it was not wide enough; still, I thought that by keeping strict watch and wasting no space unnecessarily I could crowd through. [5]
- Now, however, there was more real cause for alarm a trumpet-blast was heard, and a maniple of the twenty-second legion marched down in close order on the crowd who fled before them. [10]
- The young man was moderate in his sarcasm, and attempted to speak of national issues, but the crowd had small relish for that sort of thing. [4]
- The surging crowd was made up half of citizens and half of soldiers, and had no recognized leader. [5]
- Lady Rosebery, who was kindness itself, would have had us stay and sit down in comfort at the supper-table, after the crowd had thinned, but we were tired with all we had been through, and ordered our carriage. [6]
- Pretty soon we was in the middle of a crowd, and the noise of the tramping was like a soldier march. [5]
- But the attempt was frustrated, for some Roman lictors who had just come up stood in their way, and sent them to the southern side of the street of Hermes, to mingle with the gaping crowd under the arcade. [10]
- Hadrian's first thought was for his favorite, and being averse to venturing himself once more to mix with the crowd, he begged the sculptor to go and seek him and conduct him safely. [10]
- The front door was flung open now, and the crowd poured into the room, boisterous, reckless, though some were only sullen, watchful and angry. [11]
- When the sermon was finished, Judge Thatcher's wife dropped alongside of Mrs. Harper as she moved down the aisle with the crowd and said: "Is my Becky going to sleep all day? [5]
- The horrible sermon was ended and the words of the chanting crowd fell on his ear. [10]
- The log meeting-house was deserted, but the court-house was the centre of such a swirling crowd as I had often seen at Harrodstown. [9]
- Its narrow doorway was besieged by a crowd, for within the first of the rock-chambers of which it consisted, a harper was singing a dirge for the long-since buried prophet, his wife and his sister. [10]
- Nobody believed there was any bear in the case; but everybody who could get a gun carried one; and we went into the woods armed with guns, pistols, pitchforks, and sticks, against all contingencies or surprises,--a crowd made up mostly of scoffers and jeerers. [4]
- Behind the crowd was a row of old-fashioned brick houses, on the walls of which were patterned, by the cold electric light, the branches of the bare elms ranged along the sidewalk. [9]
- Amid the crowd was a dark, handsome youth, in Andalusian garb, who seemed to fix on her an eye of agony. [4]
- My, but there was a crowd there! [5]
- She heard the warning voice of her companion, she saw the crowd staring at her, she had, no doubt, a brief struggle with her maidenly shyness, but she carried out her purpose. [10]
- The crowd outside waited in a terrible anxiety. [11]
- He does not vouchsafe a glance at the jubilant crowd, but gazes down at the road, his well-shaped brow so deeply furrowed with gloom that he might be meditating some evil deed. [10]
- Perhaps--" But the viscount perceived that some more questions were about to be asked; so he worked his way out of the crowd, released the sleeve, put on the coat and wandered away to seek a humble and obscure lodging. [5]
- Such was the view that prevailed at Headquarters, pervaded the angrily buzzing crowd that stood outside--heedless of the rain--and animated the stormy conferences in the Salle de Reunion. [9]
- He felt his veins beating with desire, with anger, disgust, and shame; for there was John Brown, to the applause of the crowd, imitating his old manner, his voice, his very look. [11]
- There was a vast crowd in the public grounds that night to hear the band play the "Fremersberg. [5]
- He gazed into vacancy, while a crowd of sensations rushed confusedly through his brain. [10]
- And finally when ushers come and plead, and beg, and gently and reverently crowd them down into their seats, they say, "Oh, I'm not tired--I could bang along a week! [5]
- But when the uproar of the crowd in the vicinity of the Serapeum became more audible as they advanced, she suddenly stood still, and said: "Come what may, I will find my way to the great physician's presence and crave his help. [10]
- The crowd drew up to the large table, at which sat gray-haired or bald seventy-year-old magnates, uniformed and besashed almost all of whom Pierre had seen in their own homes with their buffoons, or playing boston at the clubs. [2]
- If she'll let up on some of the roughest things, I'll smoke private and cuss private, and crowd through or bust. [5]
- The dust kicked up by the crowd dimmed the few lamps and torches which had not by this time burned out or been extinguished, and an oppressive atmosphere of balsamic resin and spices met the brother and sister on the very threshold. [10]
- The countess took up a position in one of the front rows of that crowd. [2]
- A crowd of unpleasant thoughts passed through her bosom. [5]
- As the gray uniforms file out of the gate, the crowd has become a mob, now flowing back into the fields on each side of the road, now pressing forward vindictively until stopped by the sergeants and corporals. [9]
- Above it, and under the big trees, shone a thousand glittering lights: there was a crowd at the gate, and instead of saying, "Open, Sesame," Peter slipped two bright fifty-cent pieces to the red-faced German ticketman, and in they went. [9]
- At that moment two men were fiercely fighting their way through the crowd towards where Ingolby was. [11]
- From two directions two long files of infantry came plowing through the pack and press in silence; there was a low, crisp order and the crowd vanished, the square save the sidewalks was empty, the private mourner was gone. [5]
- Not a lip trembled nor an eye faltered when a backwoodsman, his memory aflame at sight of the pitiful white scalps on their belts, thrust through the crowd to curse them. [9]
- As Rosalie ran towards the crowd she turned a wistful glance to the tailor-shop. [11]
- Suddenly some horsemen tore into the midst of the crowd, and a voice shouted: "Hold--or ye are dead men! [5]
- He had come to warn Constantine Jopp that a crowd were come to tar and feather him, and to get him away on his own horse. [11]
- It was found, to use the slang of the dry-goods shops, that it would not wash, for there were liable to crowd into it at any moment those who had in fact washed for a living. [4]
- Having been given to understand that the crowd was not all Republican, but consisted of men of all parties, he continued:] This is as it should be. [7]
- They both forbore to torture me with words, for I was suffering greatly; but they fetched me to the Chateau St. Louis, followed by a crowd, who hooted at me. [11]
- Peace was restored to the heavens, but the crowd and noise in the city and the street constantly increased. [10]
- Now he sprang to the front door, called to the approaching crowd for help, then ran back to help O'Ryan. [11]
- Bob Worthington came to the edge of the porch and stood there, frankly scanning the crowd, with an entire lack of self-consciousness. [9]
- He turned quickly to the crowd, for some had sprung towards the platform to pull him off. [11]
- He then turns to the crowd and explains the case. [4]
- He was about to speak, but suddenly from the crowd there was spat out at him the words, "Spy! [11]
- He knew that to rise now and make for the door would be of no advantage, for a number of the excited crowd were between him and it. [11]
- Injun Joe helped to raise the body of the murdered man and put it in a wagon for removal; and it was whispered through the shuddering crowd that the wound bled a little! [5]
- Orpheus turned quickly to punish the prophet of evil; but he had disappeared in the crowd and the tide of men had borne him onwards. [10]
- Presently she turned to Ingles and spoke to him quickly in a low voice; then, descending the steps, passed out through the lane made for her by the crowd, he following with shaking limbs and bowed bead. [11]
- He always managed to free himself, however, and finally reached the big basin, where a crowd of maidens with green hair and scaly tails were sporting, and they invited him to come and play tag with them. [10]
- Your lover sought to enjoy the sensation of showing himself to the crowd with the stateliest woman in the company on his arm! [10]
- I must submit to double severity, he says, because the people look first to those of the highest rank; and if I went unpunished for contempt of the sacred institutions there might be imitators among the crowd. [10]
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