multitude

• The plaudits and cheers of the multitude were at this juncture repeated, accompanied by salutes of artillery from without. —  Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams
• Then he continued toward the 24 de Febrero Park, where a multitude was awaiting for him to support the new social process that had begun in Cuba. —  Cuba Journal
• Thus he continued a straight course, until he arrived at the market-place, where a multitude was assembled round two men, who were fighting desperately. —  The Pacha of Many Tales
• And he enquired of the miller, wherefore such a multitude were there assembled. —  The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3)
• The people having been employed in these works, because he both considered that such a multitude was a burden to the city when there was no employment for them, and further, he was anxious that the frontiers of the empire should be more extensively occupied by sending colonists, he sent colonists to Signia and Circeii, to serve as defensive barriers hereafter to the city by land and sea. —  The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08

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