As the crowd dribbled away, Selene recognized two of the prima donnas and the first contralto of the opera, and she nudged Belle in a sardonic manner.
Soon the crowd drifted in from the balcony and the great music-room, its solemn oak walls and ceilings blazing with light, was jammed.
III As early as seven o'clock there was a small crowd in front of the Marsoc residence, from which was to be buried the famous tenor, Siegfried Brazier.
Finally I joined a crowd in the upper hall attracted by the appearance of a white-haired man of intelligent aspect, who, with kindly smile and abundant gesture was making much merriment about him.
He favoured the crowd with a pleasant smile, although some were Germans, and because others were pretty.
The yelling crowd rushed down, some hurling spears, and others endeavouring to seize the Frenchman.
But the excited crowd was at length forced back so far as to allow a sufficient running-off space.
The aeroplane flew up; the crowd watched its ascension like adoring worshippers of some sky deity; and in three minutes it was a mere speck in the cloudless blue.
Smith was a little annoyed at the possibility of being delayed by a crowd of spectators, but there was evidently no help for it.
The carriage rolled off, followed by a crowd of runners, eager out of pure inquisitiveness to see the matter through.
But it's lucky I thought of setting fire to the petrol, or they would certainly have been upon us, and there's such a crowd of them that we might have been done for.
Smith had not found himself in so large a crowd of English-speaking people since he had left London.
Six or eight men lay on the ground, some of them too badly hurt to rise; the rest of the crowd had taken to their heels, and the whole population was in full flight, the children screaming with terror.
There's a big crowd beyond the village," he reported.
The crowd fell back, allowing Smith a free course to the aeroplane.
Rodier showed more reluctance, declaring that he was as fit as a fiddle; but Captain Warren bore him away from the crowd of admirers, and stood over him until he, like his master, was sleeping soundly.
For a few minutes the two men made a great show of activity, completely disregarding the crowd curiously watching them.
As the herdsmen put the primitive contrivance into operation and swing up bucket after bucketful of cool water, the cattle crowd around, impatient to receive it as it rushes along the stone troughing.
In June their slight nests crowd the sallow-brakes and clumps of gnarled alders and aspens islanded in marsh, and barricaded with bramble and vicious thorny zarzas.
But one thing we came here to learn is whether you intend to prosecute any of that crowd under the state law?
There was a dead hush when he declared to the crowd that he had no idea of attempting to prosecute the men who had lured his boy away.
As the two Dunstans came out again the crowd surged about them in a craze of hoarse excitement.
Then if Don Emilio's crowd isn't there, there must at least be some one there who has authority to telephone orders to Gambon.
But I am afraid Alvarez and his crowd will be in hiding to-night, fearing the local officers on account of the Dunstan business.
If you can get the Alvarez crowd under the federal law," said Lawyer Crane, quickly, "I think you will be able to push the prisoners harder.
Now, those fellows can get in here before I can signal any of our crowd back to the 'Meteor.
The Alvarez crowd would like nothing better than to disable this fine craft if they got a chance to sneak aboard.
This fellow belongs to the crowd that must know all about Ted Dunstan's disappearance.
If they had a man in the crowd to force that note into my hand, the same man must still be there and will take back any news that he can.
There are three of the crowd up there," added Joe.
I don't doubt though, that the Alvarez crowd will go to any extreme, even shooting, if they get sight of us.
I'll wait until the crowd gets away from there before I try for a closer look," thought the young motor boat skipper.
It is not difficult now to see why the crowd followed; her voice is like a child's lost in the wood, but brave, and sure of ultimate protection; it has a curious effect of the country and the hedgerows.
The crowd sighs with the old familiar joy, the magic of the golden voice slips like a veil over the cruel angles of their broken lives and mists and softens everything.
I have stood in a crowd to see the Jersey Lily, and the Queen of English comediennes could have had me for a turn of her thick lashes--before I knew Margarita.
Come, Margarita, I think we ought to get away--the crowd is getting thicker.
So late as 1791, when she had reached her seventy-first year, she gave a breakfast of which Fanny Burney wrote: "The crowd of company was such that we could only slowly make our way in any part.
This was the poet Gray, who, three years after the resort was opened declared that he had no intention of following the crowd to Ranelagh.
The crowd so soon to be let loose upon them was not yet stirring, and the only people visible were the passengers who had landed from the boats, or who had just entered London by other early conveyances.
Several people flung themselves from the gallery into the pit, others rushed hopelessly into the densest part of the crowd and were suffocated, others were trodden under foot, and hence the melancholy result.
Upon this the crowd raised many roars of laughter and applause, and hastily agreed, as with one accord, that they would see him safe and sound to Covent Garden.
As early as half-past four o'clock in the afternoon, the street in front of the theatre was rendered quite impassable by the vast crowd of persons that surrounded the doors.
On arriving there, he found the crowd of people collected around it so dense, as to render approach by the usual path impossible.
Is the raucous "Well hit, Johnny," of the crowd a fitting, a reverent salutation?
Thus, in 1910, he published a cartoon showing a trade union official lying prostrate in the road, overthrown and left behind by a crowd marching under a banner inscribed "Down with Authority.
Vhell, I set 'em oop once more, und den I vhas so madt dot I take my glub und clean dot crowd oudt mit der street.
Raynald was already near, only withheld by the crowd of knights of higher degree who had thronged before him.
There's no crowd at this moment; there will be cabins to spare.
There is no way out except through the crowd of them.
There was present a little boy who could see nothing for the crowd and Balmerino alone was unselfish enough to think of him.
A heavy rain was falling, but thecrowd between the prison and Kennington Common was immense.
Some one in the crowd cried out, "Which is Balmerino?
Through the crowd I elbowed my way and waited for the three condemned Scotch lords to pass into their carriages.
A gaping crowd was gathered there about three central figures.
I am no Don Quixote, but there never was a Montagu who waited for the cool second thought to crowd out the strong impulse of the moment.
And now crowd in the Highland lads and lasses gay, the latter mostly in white, with ribbons in their hair, and tartan sashes across their breasts and shoulders.
The news had spread like wildfire, and quite a crowd had by this time gathered in the lane, but they were kept far back from the gate lest their footsteps should deface any traces of the murder.
Quite a crowd of people were on the quay to witness her departure on her very long and venturesome cruise.
Outside the house a crowd gathered, and formed another cordon behind that of the soldiers.
The crowd surrounded them, howling and threatening.
He tried to turn back; but, unfortunately, the commotion he made in the crowd by the stopping and turning of his horse raised such a storm of oaths and cries that he had no courage to brave it.
Bertha worked her way through the close-pressed ranks of the crowd until she reached the nearest church, which she entered.
He felt the body of the duchess shuddering with cold in his arms, he heard her teeth chattering; and the sound spurred him as the applause of a crowd spurs a race-horse, and gave him superhuman energy.
Cudgels were lowered; the peasants who were nearest to the general actually touched their hats; the crowd made way, and the soldier of Rivoli and the Pyramids rode on some twenty paces in the direction of the gendarmes.
He is not one of the crowd of lazy lords who make all the noise and leave us to do the work.
The population will everywhere crowd around you to hail the last scion of our kings whom the nation desires to proclaim!
Then he raked the shifting crowd for Quita's grey-green figure,--in vain.
Then the tall figure of Lenox broke away from the stunned crowd racing diagonally across the clear stretch between the pony and the lake.
The polo ground, occupying the centre of the glade, was ringed about by a crowd as varied and gay in colouring as a bed of mixed tulips in spring.
The broad mantel-shelf was given over to books, a motley crowd in divers stages of dilapidation.
But by that time Quita was making her way blindly through the outskirts of the crowdinto the blessed region of darkness and stars.
From Dalhousie, on the one hand, and from Chumba on the other, a light-hearted crowd of revellers profanes the quiet of earth and sky.
The crowd round the bonfire had crumbled into a hundred insignificant seeming units; and the fire itself, no longer aspiring to the stars, glowed like an angry eye in the dusky face of the glade.
Tis not 'butter faded flower' That the people throng to see, Butter crowd comes every hour, Nothing butter crowd we see.
Maid of all work, maid of honor, Whatsoever she may be, She is butter wondrous worker, As the crowd can plainly see.
A great and complete silence had fallen as far as they and Sir Thomas were concerned, and Philippa and I, conscious of our high estate as leaders of the hunt, melted away from the crowd to investigate matters.
As they neared the village that was situated on the flat land that swept back from the Narbudda in a wide plain, and nestled against the river bank, they were swept into a crowd such as would be encountered on a trip to the Derby.
When they were past the turbulent crowd he said, "Bootea, your people will all have fled or been captured.
Hunsa pushed his way through this motley crowd and continued on to the gate of the palace.
While Armstrong was not at all to blame, the general crowd saw only that his kick was blocked and considered him unsafe as a drop-kicker.
The crowd did not at once appreciate the significance of the matter, but a few, recognizing a safety for Harvard, set up a scattered cheer.
Both policemen started forward, pushing their captors ahead of them, but the crowd blocked the way and began to hoot and yell.
Frank left his place at end and took up his position fifteen yards back of the line of scrimmage, measuring carefully the distance to the goal posts, thirty-five yards away, while the crowd waited in breathless silence.
Meanwhile the calling for a Freshman lightweight went on without success, and the crowd was throwing red-hot taunts at the youngest class for shirking their duty.
Under his urgings, they began to mow down their opponents as they had in the first part of the game, and the crowd gathered along the side-lines expressed their appreciation of the brace the team was taking in joyous howls.
Silence settled over thecrowd as Vare faced the pit for his last trial.
Bronzed giants whose bulk proclaimed them to be at least "football material" shouldered their way through the crowd and the air was filled with the chatter and hum of many voices.
Progress became slower as the 'bus neared the field, and it finally took the combined efforts of a squad of police to break the crowd sufficiently to let the Yale players through to the Locker Building within the shadow of the Stadium walls.
That night he made it a point to speak to Billie, while the latter hung on the outskirts of the crowd of athletes, and Billie was, of course, overjoyed to be spoken to by a college man, for he was only in his third year in prep.
Then, as the full significance became apparent, the Americans in the stand set up a piercing and spontaneous yell which startled and turned back the crowd already moving in larger and larger numbers in the direction of the gate.
The crowd expected the champion to pull away at once, but when the two turned at the far end of the pool, they turned at exactly the same instant.
The crowd outside clamored for candidates from the Freshmen.
His words are:-- "About fifty years ago the narrator was walking up Long Bridge Street, when he saw a large crowd in one of the yards leading from the street to a factory.
One Sunday afternoon, about 2 o'clock, an aged priest visited the farm yard, and in the presence of a crowd of spectators exorcised the Ghost, but without effect.
Welsh sheep become infallible prognosticators of a change of weather; for, by a never failing instinct, they leave the high and bare mountain ridges for sheltered nooks, and crowdtogether when they detect the approach of a storm.
They entered the court, and a crowd of servants in expensive liveries came to meet them, and she was at once led through the great hall into a bed-chamber, the like of which she had never seen.
The angry parents were satisfied the spell was broken, the crowd dispersed, and the old woman was allowed to depart quietly.
The first of the three men with whom Jesus spoke was being swept along by his emotions, by the sight of the crowd which was following the Master, and by the thought that it would be a great privilege to be in such company.
He did, in fact, boldly confess his faith in the presence of a hostile crowd and amid the taunts and jeers of rulers and soldiers, yet he was saved without any formal rites.
For twenty minutes the car dragged, and every little while stopped to crowdmore in, until everyone was pushing the next.
Judge Merlin and his party were received by a civil, respectable official, who directed them to a cloakroom, and they soon found themselves in a close, orderly crowd moving thitherward.
A decorously slow drive of fifteen minutes brought our party through this gay scene to a gayer one at the north gate of the President's park, where a great crowd of carriages were drawn up, waiting their turn to drive in.
The courtroom was full, but not crowded; nothing short of a murder or a divorce case ever draws a crowd to such a place.
Once arrived in that magnificent room, they found space enough even for that vast crowd to move about in.
And a crowd gathered, and someone said how the lad was your nephew, so I picked him up and laid him in my cart to bring him home.
On his first walk out he had been attracted by the crowd around the City Hall; had learned that an interesting trial was going on; and that some strange, new lawyer was making a great speech.
Judge Merlin's carriage drew up on the outskirts of this crowd of vehicles, to wait his turn to enter; but he soon found himself enclosed in the center of the assemblage by other carriages that had come after his own.
All these questions were asked in the same breath by the various individuals of the crowd that had collected around the insensible boy; but none seemed ready with an answer.
It is the remembrance of the Divine Man and the dignified patience with which he bore the insults of the rabble crowd upon his day of trial!
Within the house also, great as the crowd of visitors was, the most perfect order prevailed.
