In the courtyard outside the church last Sunday, those attending mass crowded about to buy the new German-language paper, the Silesian News, with advertisements for travel and butcher shops in Germany and headlines like "Silesia is our homeland -We will not abandon you," and "Silesia is a German land."

The mass of spectators crowded the borders of the landing field.

He just did not have the time to get there and, even with his supreme skills at sneaking and skulking, he doubted that he could find his way, unseen, through the mass of humans crowding the palace corridors and heading to the battlements in search of a view of what was going on below.

Behind the uniformed Acorna-like space travelers streaming from their ships to add to the party, a mass of multicolored creatures similar in form to the space-farers crowded onto the docking level, strumming, blowing into, pounding upon, brushing, and stamping a variety of musical instruments.

Dense masses of the invaders crowded about them, battering at them.

As Abbahu delivered popular sermons, the masses naturally crowded to hear him, and deserted the halakist.

At Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, a mass of people, their faces twisted in determination, crowded the ground floor, mostly in search of accessories and other small items rather than pricier goods.

Great banana trees stroked the galleries of the inner courts, and masses of fern and flower crowded the mouth of the passage.