Sutton, unanimously thronged into the hall and towards a room at the back of the house.
The theatre was full—crammed to its roof: royal and noble were there: palace and hotel had emptied their inmates into those tiers so thronged and so hushed.
I knew that the house and garden were thronged, and that all was gay and glad below; here it began to grow dusk: the beetles were fading from my sight; I trembled lest they should steal on me a march, mount my throne unseen, and, unsuspected, invade my skirts.
What quiet harbours, thronged with gallant shipping bound for purple islands of wine and spice, islands set low in languorous waters!
The news spread quickly through Avonlea, and all day friends and neighbors thronged Green Gables and came and went on errands of kindness for the dead and living.
" Tin pans and horns were added to the din, the population massed itself and moved toward the river, met the children coming in an open carriage drawn by shouting citizens, thronged around it, joined its homeward march, and swept magnificently up the main street roaring huzzah after huzzah!
"And a mass of melancholy fancy thronged my mind as well.
The streets of the island are thronged with well-paid workers.
Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand, In the moon that is always rising, Nor that riding to sleep I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
"And a mass of melancholy fancy thronged my mind as well.
One laughed, another chatted; the people thronged the windows and door-steps, and even all the roofs.
