Helen tried to comfort her, though she herself needed consolation as much; for who can tell what were all the varied sensations, each painful, yet each different from the rest, which thronged her bosom on that sad night?
The lower story wasthronged with men drinking and talking; but, walking through the passage, they reached a narrow and ill-constructed stairs, which led to some rooms above.
I thought the place was thronged the whole summer long.
In spite of a conspicuous warning that any dog entering the garden would be destroyed, the place was thronged with dogs unmolested and apparently in no danger of the threatened doom.
Suddenly, from the wall-encircled city, came the sound of drums beating to arms, and soon the walls became thronged with troops and citizens.
But misses, and in frantic terror flies 300 Round the thronged Cirque; and, anxious to be known, Lifts his bare face, with many a piteous moan.
Who can tell the thoughts that thronged through their brains, as the slow moving hours advanced toward the dawn?
The village street was thronged with people that cheered, and swung their hats and handkerchiefs to the coach as it left the judges' stand and drove under the triumphal arch, with the other coaches behind it.
In the crowd which thronged the steamer's dock at Hoboken, Clementina strained her eyes to make out some one who looked enough like her lover to be his father, and she began to be afraid that they might miss each other when she failed.
Again down the thronged room she swept, with that chin-lifted, drooping-eyed, faintly offended half consciousness of some staring rabble at hand that concerned her not at all.
Being almost the last, it will be understood that they created no little sensation as she led them down the throngedroom to her table.
Down thethronged boulevard we proceeded at a rapid pace and were passing presently before an immense gray edifice which I recognized as the so-called Louvre from its illustration on the cover of Cousin Egbert's art book.
It was so thronged with people every where, in the middle of the street as well as upon the sidewalks, that the carriage could scarcely pass along.
The sidewalks, especially on the side towards the harbor, were thronged with people living in the open air, and practising their various trades there.
It rained in torrents, but nevertheless an immense multitude throngedthe Champ de Mars.
A crowd, attracted by curiosity, thronged his path when he visited the churches, and assembled under his balcony when he appeared there to give his blessing.
At Chantilly, where Anne de Gonzague reigned supreme, festivity followed festivity, and it was she who received the crowds of guests who thronged to visit that delectable resort.
If they continue to press in much longer, the court will be so thronged that no more missiles can be thrown.
Such were the questions that were continually asked, but never answered by the elegant crowd which thronged the halls of the palace that evening.
Here and there might be heard a slight sob, and, with this exception, there was silence in that thronged market-place.
And for six hours the bridge was thronged with passengers; some in vehicles, some clinging to vehicles; ladies and lackeys together in rumbles, or together hanging to the carriage- doors.
The crowd who thronged its doors was representative of Kimberley, for it contained men of many different races and types.
A sea of warm air and spring perfumes surrounded her, and crowds thronged the streets, enjoying the evening, after their toilsome work, as if they had just waked from their winter sleep.
Madeleine von Wildenau, leaning on the prince's arm, walked silently through the crowd which now, on the eve of the play, thronged the narrow streets.
The sheets, almost wet from the press, were read by high and low; by those who lived and revelled in marble halls and gilded saloons, as well as by those who thronged our large towns and centres of industry.
At half-past seven the Sheriffs arrived in their carriage, and in a short time the press-yard was thronged with gentlemen.
At half past seven the sheriff arrived in his carriage, and in a short time the press-yard was thronged with gentlemen who had been admitted by tickets.
On the following day, they glided along the green and solitary shores now thronged with the life of a busy city, and landed on the spot which Champlain, thirty-one years before, had chosen as the fit site of a settlement.
The first division of troops had scarcely come up when, about six o'clock, this ridge was suddenly thronged with white uniforms.
For a moment it seemed a glorious city, bathed in life and hope, full of happy people who thronged its streets and bridge, and the margin of its gentle stream.
The livid scorched plains, with the dark foliage, the hot piazzas and highways, seemed to him thronged with ghastly phantoms, all occupied more or less in some evil or fruitless work.
The marble pavement of the interior, precious beyond calculation, wasthronged with the dark crowd, and the costly marble of the walls and tombs was streaked and veiled by the wreaths of incense which lingered in the building.
Inglesant was too much occupied watching the passers-by in the thronged streets to pay much attention to what he said.
The whole of the yard immediately before the spectators was thronged by a multitude of persons, of all ages and ranks, apparently just risen from the tomb.
At Ferrara, a vast city which appeared to Inglesant like a city of the dead as he walked through streets of stately houses without an inhabitant, the chief concourse of people was the crowd of beggars who thronged round the Cardinal's coach.
When the morning rose upon the day on which his condemnation was to take place, the tribunal of the Minerva, and all the avenues and corridors leading to it, were thronged with an excited crowd.
To Inglesant's excited fancy evil beings thronged its shadowy paths, present to the spiritual sense, though concealed of set purpose from the feeble human sight.
The passages from the castle gate on the quay were also thronged by crowds who could not see, but tried to hear.
There the narrow space allotted to spectators was throngedwith hot faces under beavers, mutches, and sun-bonnets.
On Sundays they thronged the churches at morning and afternoon services, and in the evening they congregated on the shore to hear the Quaker preachers, who went about, under the shadow of the terror, without hindrance or prosecution.
Two ascending avenues lead up from Lhassa to Potala, which are constantly thronged with foreign pilgrims, troops of Lamas in official vestments, higher Lamas and courtiers in full uniform.
The roads were continually thronged with wagons, and tracks were opened for horses wherever a shorter way might thus be made available.
It cannot be good for us to send ships laden outside with iron shields instead of inside with soft goods and hardware to these thickly thronged American ports.
The streets of Washington, night and day, were throngedwith army wagons.
No; let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And at the head of our remaining troops Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his thronged legions, and charge home upon him.
The daguerreotypes, which could be produced in a few moments and at a comparatively small cost, became very popular, and Brady's gallery was thronged every morning with distinguished visitors.
His dress was plain, with the least possible insignia of rank, and his headquarters at the residence of Commodore Wilkes, long occupied by Mrs. Madison, was always thronged with visitors.
Secretary McClelland's series of evening receptions were thronged with the elite of the South, and at Secretary Guthrie's one could see the majestic belles of Kentucky.
There were no kindly chaplains, no sailors' institutes nor waterside missions for the care of those who thronged its waterways.
Hadfield ordered the bell to be rung for Evensong; the assembly thronged in to prayers; and for the time the excitement calmed down.
The Earl of Wharton with his countess, surrounded by a brilliant staff, and amid all the pomp and state of vice-regal dignity, received the distinguished courtiers whothronged the castle chambers.
Noon was the time fixed for the fatal ceremonial; and long before that hour, the mob, in one dense mass of thousands, had thronged and choked the streets leading to the old gaol.
