Sometimes the largest crowds are partly the products of bad management; the Mona Lisa is such a hurried experience today partly because the museum is being reorganized.
I saw the shining of shop-fronts, the yellow glistening of a wet pavement, the hurrying people, the cabs, the omnibuses — and I wished I were amid it all.
The noise and hurrying about and wailing over the cholera had frightened her, and she had been angry because no one seemed to remember that she was alive.
Their thick grey armour, their powerful scuttling legs, their fire-blasting ends, their stings and their suckers, combined to make the Scroots the most repulsive things Harry had ever seen.