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. ❋ Unknown (1852)

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. ❋ Unknown (1206)

I think you slapped the nest a couple of times today and hornets are coming out in swarms! ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Tim Romano (2008)

Holly Beach was eliminated in swarms of tornados and storm surge when Hurricane Rita hit. ❋ Unknown (2005)

* Like bees, protestors operate in swarms, but they don†™ t produce anything useful like honey. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The black flies came in swarms, the mosquitoes in thousands, and the second night timber wolves barked in the distance. ❋ Unknown (1913)

It was a horrid black creature about an inch long, which appeared in swarms, devoured all the plants and then disappeared, touching nothing else. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Indians, from the mountains, are there in swarms with their marketing. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Let them come then in swarms by this Corsican led, ❋ Anonymous (1804)

The flies and frogs which infested them, mixtures of insects in swarms, in shoals, which devoured them, which destroyed them, v. 45. ❋ Unknown (1721)

They compassed me about like bees, so numerous were they, so noisy, so vexatious; they came flying upon him, came upon him in swarms, set upon him with their malignant stings; but it was to their own destruction, as the bee, they say, loses her life with her sting, Animamque in vulnere ponit -- She lays down her life in the wound. ❋ Unknown (1721)

There is much speculation about linking small drones or robots together into 'swarms' -- clouds or crowds of machines that would share their intelligence, like a hive mind, and have the capability to converge instantly on identified targets. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Another book related to crowdsourcing (collaborative creation) in swarms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Earthquakes that are closely spaced in time and area are termed swarms and are a common mode of seismic energy release in the Yellowstone caldera. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ZARRELLA: They attack in larger swarms, which is what makes them lethal and will chase you for up to 300 yards. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I gave them some strongly flavoured cough-drops from my satchel, and soon the news spread among the youngsters, who gathered into the house in swarms. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

Police are [warning] [citizens] not to go out alone after a recent [wave] of swarmings. ❋ RobinHood70_1 (2016)

[employee] 1- [the swarm] is [coming], employee 2- NO! theyl come and never leave ❋ Garret F (2011)

A swarm of [friends] congratulated him. ❋ Vamsee (2006)

[Gamer] 1: How the hell did he get a [swarm] already! Gamer 2: Because your teammates are [n00bs]! ❋ IPwnDEEZn00bs (2013)

LULZ!! Chu Jus got [swarmed]! I need more swarmjuice to [swarm] all these noobs. OH MY [SWARM].... ❋ Jeypasta (2009)

[Did you] see that swarm of [lesbians] at the [pride parade]? ❋ Theyarb (2008)

TJ: Homie you [swarming], [fo' real] homes Teddy: You was swarming first!!!!...........tryin to take my lunch money [like dat], it aint workin sucka!!! ❋ Icy-D (2009)

Let's [swarm] [Doris] on [Instagram] ❋ Peachislife (2016)

This weekend the [jimny] [swarm] will be meeting at Costco [carpark]. ❋ Chicken Swarma (2023)

Example: Since her divorce Mary has been the pleasant receipent of an unusaual high degree of swarming activity. Mary is extremely [flattered] and assessing on a case by case basis her swarming offers. Another example is: John who since he became a [widower] has decided that in his world [there will be] "No swarming allowed!" John wants to find his own next relationship. ❋ Rightabouteverything (2011)