Croud

Their unvail'd Beauties, from the censuring Croud;

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

Croud goez wylde, raizing pitchforks…..er….signz rythmaklee “noms! noms! noms!”

and i sai - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Ambassadors was Smaller than usual, and the Attendant Croud less, So that I had a better Opportunity, of viewing the Royal Family at Leisure, then ever I had before.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 June 1783 1993

Evenings were filled up with the Croud of Business before the Board, but a great Part of my time in Congress was engaged in making, explaining and justifying our Reports and Proceedings.

John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961

I cant raise my mind above this mob Croud of Men, Women, Beasts and Carriages, to think steadily.

John Adams diary 2, 5 October 1758 - 9 April 1759 1961

Mix with the Croud in a Tavern, in the Meeting House or the Training Field, and grow popular by your agreable assistance in the Tittle tattle of the Hour, never think of the deep hidden Principles of natural, civil, or common Law, for thoughts like these will give you a gloomy

John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961

_Thomas Manley_ was (saith my Author) one of the Croud of Poetical writers of the late King's Time.

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Croud of inferiour Productions, and lie so long buried as it were, among those that profess such a Readiness to give Life to every thing that is valuable.

Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning Gregory Griffin

Rank, to shew them how much beneath them it was, to stoop so low to be thus coarsly entertained: And that it betray'd a want of _Honour_ as well as _Religion_, tamely to see themselves as well as their _Maker_ abused, and to seem pleased with that in a Croud, which said or done before them any where else, they wou'd be obliged to resent as the highest Affront.

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

- The Croud in the High St* I understand was immense; Mrs. Harrison, who was drinking tea with a Lady at Millar's, could not leave it twelve o'clock.

Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796