Word: swarmming
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Docking at Hoboken, they were con fronted by an attentive swarm of U. S. Customs men, who opened, rummaged, scrambled the baggage with all that suspicious efficiency which is ordinarily accorded to millionaires, screen queens or famed pugilists...
...swarm of schoolteachers...
Dozens of other characters swarm through the story-so many others that one has the uneasy consciousness of turning a page and losing one of them, as though he had slipped off into space...
Above the swarm of books on Harvard life and Harvard traditions has appeared one predestined to stand as the most authoritive, the richest and the fullest. Only one man is equipped with the experience and information to write such a classic, and that is President Emeritus Eliot. Almost three-quarters of a century of continuous contact with Harvard have fitted him preeminently to collect the traditions and expound the doctrines which have guided Harvard men for a dozen generations...
...that the Strand is something like half the width of Broadway and that (due to the crowd) a sharp walk of three and three-quarter miles per hour is even a shade more than improbable. In Threadneedle Street, in the city, it can be said that the people, who swarm like ants, go faster than the presumptive vehicles that dare transgress its sanctity. In England all fares are paid according to distance; taxis are cheaper than in New York...