What is "aswarm"

Usage examples of "aswarm".

Biter was still at Deptford, Will discovered at the receiving hulk, and when he got to her was positively aswarm with dockyard hands.

Gwen found herself aswarm with worried, fearful hatchlings seeking to pull her away.

After five years of a kingdom-wide war, you know that his realms must be aswarm with veteran soldiers, and Zastros is offering them anything that he feels might tempt themamnesties and lands to nobles who fought against him, manumissions to escaped slaves, excellent wages to mercenaries, and mountains of loot for all.

Alvin examined the water closer, and as he expected, it was all aswarm with tiny animals and plants and the eggs of skeeters and other kinds of insects.

We then descend slowly into a slum region, a nexus of back alleyways aswarm with orphan children, hundreds of thousands of them.

There seemed to be a well-nigh infinite number of stars, a sea of cosmic creation aswarm with fiery beacons radiating light and life to countless worlds.

The crest of the dam, at last reared to respectable height and recognizable form, was aswarm with miniature dark figures: the rammed-earth and timber platform on which most of the work was done was nearly level with the dam surface.

Lumbuh will be aswarm with the largest single army these realms have ever seen.

Lord knows, already, Indian, White, African, aswarm well before the Twilight, we hardly need more.

While the two fought a war of wills, Gwen found herself aswarm with worried, fearful hatchlings seeking to pull her away.

On the other hand, if the regiment had been smashed, the territory would be aswarm with ARVN deserters.

He was thinking of Jean Sweet Venable aswarm in bedsheets hundreds of feet straight up.

Egyptian Cirujano and his apprentices, a heap of still-bleeding black bodies was already aswarm with flies and other insects, which prey had attracted several of the small, jewel-bright, insectivorous lizards and at least one big brown toad.

Oval Office was aswarm with Secret Service agents and military people.

This is what happens: Sunday before Labor Day, early in Cassadaga Park before church lets out and the playing areas are aswarm with children, Jinx Fairchild is methodically shooting baskets by himself the familiar old basket just a netless rim loose against the battered backboard, the concrete rough underfoot when a Villanova College student comes by, a forward on the Villanova basketball team, and the two play a fierce one on one game for hours.