Sign of a sellout?

Usage examples of crowd.

The artillery attempted to unlimber and to bring their guns to bear again, but the confusion that prevailed in the crowded spot rendered this next to impossible, and long before it could be accomplished the iron hail again swept through the ranks, and two rattling volleys from their invisible foes behind the flanking abattis again flashed out.

Upon the signal being given, they leaped in crowds from the advanced trench, climbed over the abattis, descended the ditch and swarmed up the rugged slope in hundreds.

Solomon and his son Sir Abraham sit among the dignitaries on the apron directly above the first set of steps of Parliament House some eight feet above the crowd.

Susanna Adams flew into a rage over the fact that Deacon John, in answer to his own conscience and feelings of responsibility as selectman, had brought a destitute young woman to live in the crowded household, the town having no means to provide for her.

With the crowd in raptures, cannon pounding, church bells clanging, Washington bowed still again and then, Adams at his side, moved back to deliver his inaugural address to a seated Congress.

The Adams household was more crowded now than it had ever been and would remain so.

As a crowd gathered outside the Adams house, numbers of the family filled the room where the two old heroes sat reminiscing, Adams hugely enjoying the occasion.

With a firm grip on his shoulder, the emperor of Shan was guiding him through the milling crowd, into the public room where Carina and Adar had set up their aid station.

With Adelaide carrying Prickles behind him, he pushed his way through the shouting crowds towards the hospital entrance.

Daniel said, nodding Adele ahead just in case some of the soldiers tried to push in and crowd her.

Then, with a swift, smooth motion, he slid the automatic pistol out from under his belt, and half a dozen of the platform workers shrieked as Adler brought the weapon up and aimed it directly into the crowd.

By then a crowd of townsfolk had started to form in front of the south gates and spill over, just as Admi had predicted, onto the commons to either side the path.

Public opinion--in spite of, or on account of, a crowd of witnesses--was ill informed upon the exact bearings of the question, and it was obvious that as Dutch sentiment at the Cape appeared already to be thoroughly hostile to us, it would be dangerous to alienate the British Africanders also by making a martyr of their favourite leader.

Soon, having reproduced to the point of crowding, some Africans would swarm and settle in the wilds.

He appeared to be drawing out his argument into a filibuster, to hold the platform until the aftersupper crowd came along.