These had increased till there could not have been less than a couple of thousand, reddening the slopes like a swarm of ants.
On the other hand, the Kafirs were drawing nearer and nearer, crowding through the bushes like a swarm of red ants.
They seemed to swarm like disturbed red ants; and now, with a tremendous and vibrating roar, the whole of this formidable array swept forward upon the Police camp.
They noticed something floating in the water with a swarm of flies hovering over it.
Each had its attendant swarm of flies, and vultures soared in flocks in the air.
The river woods along the Ouleout swarm with Seneca scouts.
Amochol has made it sinister and terrible beyond words; and it is making of the Senecas a swarm of fiends from hell itself.
During the summer the people swarm out from the cities and villages and cultivate their little tracts of land with the most primitive tools, carrying the farm products back to their homes on wheelbarrows or in baskets balanced on poles.
In a swarm we report; we put on our things and get away into the cool night air.
Almost instantly he heard the shrilling blast of its emergency bow jets as Gibson met the lizard swarm head on.
Out of the morning rainbow dropped a swarm of winged lizards, twenty feet in length and a glistening chlorophyll green in the early light.
These places also swarm with Tuaricks, Kilgris, Iteesan, and Kailouees, who join the blacks of Maradee and Gouber in their slave-hunting expeditions.
Around my house exists a swarm of fighis, who can copy charms and a few passages from the Koran.
As plain as if it were right in front of me, I could see our little camp at the mouth of the Musselshell and its weary watchers staring out at the river-bank, expecting every moment that the enemy would swarm up and attack them.
Well, so will the hostiles swarm about you down there when they learn that the runner is with you.
The serpent that lay brooding in her heart suddenly brought forth a swarm of others that started into life, alert and vicious, gnawing, and vomiting fire.
She was stunned, but at the same time her brain ached with a swarm of evil visions like the trampling of horses snorting as they charge.
We have seen the part that has been played in the exploitation of the soil by groups of colonists who swarm from one area to another.
The léperos seem to swarm in greater numbers than ever, and last evening two small shops were broken into and robbed.
The men rowed slowly, making as little noise as possible until clear of the swarm of canoes and small craft that hung about in the bay.
Indeed they are sorely needed by the evening, and you only feel safe when within their grateful shelter from the plague of insects, not only mosquitoes, that swarm in when the candles are lighted.
We found ourselves driving through another Chinatown, for the Chinese swarm and predominate in the population as much in Singapore as they do in Batavia.
The delta of sand was covered with a rude encampment, and at the furthermost point where the rivers joined, the banks were invisible from the swarm of human beings.
Monkeys swarm in the city, and look upon these temples and tombs as their rightful inheritance.
Not less troublesome are the hawkers and vendors, who swarm everywhere in the verandahs of the hotels, but nowhere worse than at Delhi.
In the length of three streets live all the Chinese whoswarm about the city.
There was a little whirring sound, like that of a swarm of bees, and they were all gone.
These and the lanterns did not seem to trouble them at all in dancing, and if Kathleen had seen the lights and had not seen the dancers, she would have thought that they were a swarm of fireflies.
Out from the swarm of babies Jane hurried homewards.
As the dusk descends there is a general setting of the throng towards the open air; all the pathways swarm with groups which have a tendency to disintegrate into couples; universal is the protecting arm.
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.
The children nodded shrewdly, withdrew in a swarm to the corner of the cloister, and watched events.
There came a moment when his restless walk was tormented with the prickly rise of a whole newswarm of fears.
Then, of a sudden, a wholeswarm of incidents and impressions rushed upon memory.
They swarm over us like locusts, ready for any bit of mischief against the Government.
Wheeling our horses, we essayed flight, but at the same moment a swarm of dismounted men leapt from the banks in our rear.
But we'll have the whole swarm about our ears ere long.
The dismounted men, meanwhile, began to swarm up the right and left hand ridges, potting away as they advanced, while a few moved up the centre, firing when necessary and taking advantage of what cover was afforded.
If the ground is rocky or of clayey mud the water is retained, instead of being absorbed, and here swarm multitudes of silurus, or bearded mud-fish.
They hatch their young when new-born insectsswarm on every side.
And after that we noted to the northward and very high Evesham's fighting machines hanging high over Naples like an evening swarm of gnats.
