swarms

• “I was tired and hungry, my face disfigured and blistered by the unremitting attentions of the blackflies that rose in swarms from the river.”

  Roughing It in the Bush

• “But the ministers of Theodosius performed, with reluctance, the cruel task which had been assigned them; they dropped a gentle tear over the calamities of the people; and they listened with reverence to the pressing solicitations of the monks and hermits, who descended in swarms from the mountains.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “I think you slapped the nest a couple of times today and hornets are coming out in swarms!”

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• “This looks like a mayfly that hatch along the great river road along the Mississippi River and hatch in swarms large enough that they end up greasing the roadway.”

  Name that Bug

• “* Like bees, protestors operate in swarms, but they don†™ t produce anything useful like honey.”

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• “Holly Beach was eliminated in swarms of tornados and storm surge when Hurricane Rita hit.”

  Archive 2005-11-01

• “The black flies came in swarms, the mosquitoes in thousands, and the second night timber wolves barked in the distance.”

  The Shagganappi

• “And they invaded my field in swarms and droves, crushing the sweet wheat into the earth and with lustful hands ripping the poppies out by the roots.”

  The Golden Poppy

• “It was a horrid black creature about an inch long, which appeared in swarms, devoured all the plants and then disappeared, touching nothing else.”

  A Woman's Hardy Garden

• “Indians, from the mountains, are there in swarms with their marketing.”

  Six Months in Mexico

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