pullulate

• The parties too, that already began to pullulate, were not better satisfied with the issue of the _Champ de Mai_. —  Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
• Dhâraṇî or Tantra pullulate and multiply. —  Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
• There is no fear that the professors who pullulate all over the Baltic Plain will overcome the —  The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
• His favorite ejaculation, "Lord!" occurs but once that I have observed in 1660, never in '61, twice in' 62, and at least five times in '63; after which the "Lords" may be said to pullulate like herrings, with here and there a solitary "damned," as it were a whale among the shoal. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• He continues: -- 'The short-sighted vulgar in the chain of causes seldom can see further than one link; but those who can enlarge their view may in a hundred places see good spring up and pullulate from evil, as naturally as chickens do from eggs.' —  Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780

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