Many of the scholars carried prize-books bound in vivid tints, and proudly exhibited these volumes to their companions and to the teachers, who, tall, languid, and condescending, soon began to appear amid the restless throng.
Villette is one blaze, one broad illumination; the whole world seems abroad; moonlight and heaven are banished: the town, by her own flambeaux, beholds her own splendour—gay dresses, grand equipages, fine horses and gallant riders throng the bright streets.
Graham rushed forwards; he and the gentleman, a powerful man though grey-haired, united their strength to thrust back the throng; her head and long hair fell back over his shoulder: she seemed unconscious.
Perhaps he saw her now on that stage, over against him, amidst all that brilliant throng.
The curtain drew up—shrivelled to the ceiling: the bright lights, the long room, the gay throng, burst upon us.
To the driver he also recommended me, giving at the same time an injunction about taking me, I think, to the wharf, and not leaving me to the watermen; which that functionary promised to observe, but failed in keeping his promise: on the contrary, he offered me up as an oblation, served me as a dripping roast, making me alight in the midst of a throng of watermen.
She had seen something so far below her belief, that her emotions rushed back from it and made an excited throng without an object.
That influence was beginning to act on Lydgate, who had for many days been seeing all life as one who is dragged and struggling amid the throng.
He saw this woman—the first to whom he had given his young adoration—amid the throng of stupid criminals.
One morning the tramp docked at Alexandria, and from the deck he looked at the city, white in the sunlight, and the crowd on the wharf; he saw the natives in their shabby gabardines, the blacks from the Soudan, the noisy throng of Greeks and Italians, the grave Turks in tarbooshes, the sunshine and the blue sky; and something happened to him.
His gaze rested on the passing throng, but I do not think he saw it.
Allen made her way through the throng of men by the door, as swiftly as the necessary caution would allow; Catherine, however, kept close at her side, and linked her arm too firmly within her friend's to be torn asunder by any common effort of a struggling assembly.
The old steam ferry-boat was chartered for the occasion; presently the gay throng filed up the main street laden with provision-baskets.
In fancy, the voluptuous votary of fashion sees herself amid the festive throng, 'the observed of all observers.
In order to figure that out, I had to let go of the man I loved and eventually the throng of seductive men as well.
Gone are the days when people throng out of office blocks for a quick bite at lunch.
The WiFi password was "trump2016," and as a throng of political reporters awaited Trump's arrival, the campaign's director of advance checked the microphone at the podium.
Jeremy Lin Is Back in New York, and So Is a Glimpse of the Old Linsanity ,"" As a throng of Chinese reporters crowded in front of him, Jeremy Lin briefly cast his eyes toward the distant skyline of Manhattan, the birthplace of Linsanity.
They expect us to become a mindless throng of obedient children who are not able to express their individuality in any way.
Passer-by: Of course, the throng of children in mittens should have tipped me off.
