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But the officers had not been in possession of the lugger and her cargo more than three-quarters of an hour before a great crowd of infuriated people came down to the beach, armed with firearms and wicked-looking bludgeons.
One of her women looked out of a window, and then told her it was a great crowd of people collected about the holy woman to be cured of the headache by the imposition of her hands.
She was attended by a great crowd of ladies, slaves and eunuchs, who walked on each side, and behind her.
As soon as the people saw the holy woman, as they imagined him to be, they presently gathered about him in a great crowd.
There was a great crowd at the landing-place at Saa (Malanta) to meet us.
There was a great crowd present at this glad scene, as each one strives and presses forward to touch him if possible.
And his lady came down, too, with all her sons and daughters and a great crowd of other people, who all rejoiced to offer him a lodging.
There was a great crowd to accompany him and a very great press when it came to taking leave.
There was no great crowd of chaplains or of silly, gaping yokels, but of excellent knights and of people well equipped.
Just after sunrise we had a great crowd up at the tent to have a peep at us.
We then got into a canoe, and were paddled up to the other village, where a great crowd assembled, and where we publicly gave the chiefs our presents.
There was a great crowdon the beach; but it was all right, as boys and girls were to be seen there, as noisy as the grown-up folks.
We have a great crowd of natives in from Kupele, the nearest district to Mount Owen Stanley.
One of her women told her it was a great crowd of people collected about the holy woman to be cured of diseases by the imposition of her hands.
She was attended by a great crowd of ladies, slaves, and mutes, who walked on each side and behind her.
A great crowd of fashionably dressed people turned out and saw the motion picture records of events which they had seen in life only a couple of days before.
There was a great crowd gathered on the hill where this balloon was being inflated.
When our ship anchored off Kilindini there was a great crowd assembled on the pier.
There was a bridge at the place where I first came in sight of the river, and a great crowd, so eager as to be silent, gazing up the stream.
Suddenly we became aware of a great crowd assembled at a group of small houses a little off the public road, and turned our horse's head in that direction.
At the station a great crowd and a rather excited one was assembled.
At a way station a great crowd, great compared to the size of the compartment, came surging in.
Then they all set out with the five hundred rupees to a level field near the Raja's palace; a great crowd collected to see the fun and the Raja went there expecting easily to win five hundred rupees.
As I passed in front of a house a bright light suddenly shone from the cowshed; I looked round and saw a great crowd of women-witches standing there.
On the day fixed a great crowd of beaters collected, and their drums made a noise as if the world were being turned upside down.
Yes: there was a great crowd looking on: they were standing along the walls of the compound.
A great crowd of the town's people assembled to see what was going on.
But there is a great crowd at this moment, and the Sahibs have no time to spare.
In this tumult, above twenty Roman knights were squeezed to death, with as many matrons, with a great crowd besides.
When Jesus went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd.
Then his disciples said to him, "Where could we get enough bread in the wilderness to feed such a great crowd?
They soon came out on the square and ran in a great crowd to the town which seemed to be deserted.
On the edge of the procession there followed a great crowd of women crying, and men mourning, in pity for Katheline, who herself walked like a lamb that allows itself to be led whither it knows not.
And I shall speak before a great crowdof people, coughing and hiccuping as I am--for all my life I have eaten too heartily.
And the populace was moved with pity and compassion, and a great crowd collected in the market square.
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