Footnote 15: It is true that since this essay was written reasons have been given for concluding that comets consist of swarms of meteors enveloped in aeriform matter.
Once more, it would ordinarily happen that detached swarms of meteors projected as implied, would carry with them masses of vapours and gases; whence would result the cometic constitution now insisted on.
The garrison left in the town to keep the Arabs in order suffered from swarms of flies, heat, fever, and dysentery, and would have welcomed a Turkish attack if only that it might afford some variety to their monotonous life.
Still other cadavers poison the air and enticeswarms of greedy crows.
For a prince that chooses rather to govern slaves than freemen is like a foolish farmer, who throws his wheat and barley in the streets, to fill his barns with swarms of locusts and whole cages of birds.
And in Sicily, where in the servile war much blood was shed, and many carcasses rotted on the ground, whole swarms of locusts were produced, and spoiled the corn over the whole isle.
Greek omitted] As swarms of bees, that pour in ceaseless stream From out the crevice of some hollow rock.
Often the bird's labours have to begin, especially in orchards, which are favourite nesting places with them, with having to turn outswarms of insects, nestling comfortably between the bark and the tree.
About eighty miles from the Peninsula of Florida are a set of low, sandy banks known as the Tortuga or Turtle Islands, from the swarms of turtles which lay their eggs in the sand, and are eagerly sought for by traders.
Black people he could not endure, and, of course, they came daily in swarms with food for the ship.
The whole vegetable world around me appeared to dance, as the swarms of living lights passed over it.
It was stated by Mr. Sheil, in the House of Commons, that there were swarms of Jesuits in England.
Three of these swarms he sent up to me in Washington.
He had been back to "the States," as we then called the eastern part of our country, and returning to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, he had brought fifty swarms of bees.
On the bed-posts chickens roost at night, dogs and horses share the dwellings of human beings, and the natural consequence is a shocking stench, with filth and swarms of vermin.
From the source of the Rhine to its conflux with the Mein and the Moselle, the formidable swarms of the Alemanni commanded either side of the river, by the right of ancient possession, or recent victory.
Our fancy, so long accustomed to exaggerate and multiply the martial swarms of Barbarians that seemed to issue from the North, will perhaps be surprised by the account of the army which Genseric mustered on the coast of Mauritania.
There were swarms of Americans outward bound and inward bound.
We walked or rode along, watching the swarms of game that slowly moved away as we approached.
This year the swarms of tourists have been so great that many of them could not get out of the country until late in March and along in April.
The muskegs, or bogs and marshes, produce in the summertime a very rapid growth of grass (as well as breeding swarms of mosquitoes!
Hearne writes of Lake Athabasca that it swarms with fish, such as pike, trout, perch, barbel, and other kinds not easily identified.
The nests of mice we found, and the swarms of fleas hopping in every direction, were astonishing.
Near the site of the present city of Winnipeg, in the late summer of 1800, he and his expedition were much troubled by swarms of water snakes.
It was a surprise to find swarms of mosquitoes at this altitude, so free from all mosquito-breeding waters.
Little comfort is promised for to-night, as Gandle says with a twinkle of kindly malice in his eye, that we shall not "get a wink of sleep, for the place swarms with fleas.
The stars, it is said, were seen to dash against each other like swarms of locusts; the phenomenon lasting till daybreak.
It is more direct than by Friburg, but it swarms with highway robbers.
Meanwhile the Poitevins brought into England fresh swarms of hirelings from their own land, and Peter des Roches urged Henry to crush rebellion in the bud.
During the ten years after the collapse of Peter des Roches, swarms of foreigners came to England, and spoiled the land with the king's entire good-will.
Swarms of workmen cleared a wide road through the dense forests of the four cantreds.
In the midst of all these swarms of people, of servants running, citizens coming and going, I could have wished to see Jacob; but where was I to look for him?
There has been blood enough shed already to drown it, and we are no nearer than when the firstswarms of pilgrims made their way thither.
From the early times great swarms of pilgrims were accustomed to go from all parts of Europe to the holy shrines.
Of all the other tribes of the Orthoptera Ceylon possesses many representatives; in swarms of cockroaches, grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.
Kelaart's night-jar; swarms on the marshy plains of Neuera-ellia at dusk.
Hearing of the swarms which resorted to this spot, I posted myself on a bridge some half mile distant, and attempted to count the flocks which came from a single direction to the eastward.
Look at the most vigorous species; by as much as it swarms in numbers, by so much will it tend to increase still further.
Lyell that in November, 1844, swarms of locusts visited the island of Madeira.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swarms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: many; mass; score
