A third messenger reported, immediately on the heels of the first two, that there was a mob gathered in the marketplace and that they had already heard the news from the north.

And they could hear the roar of the mob gathered within it.

This glad tidings spread like wildfire; so fast, indeed, that almost before we had begun our march, we heard the shouts of exultation with which it was received by the terrified mob gathered in the great square.

Now the mob gathered in the hall shouted in exultation, though I heard some crying out, "No, kill them!

His eyes had searched the perspiring mob gathered under the glow of a thousand candles, but neither of the faces he sought had been among them.

When their corpses were eventually brought back to Balad, angry mobs gathered in the streets clamoring for revenge, Mr. al-Qaisi said.

Led by Humphrey Arundell, a mob gathered in Bodmin and, after a sortie to take St. Michael's Mount, headed for England.

"I'm sentimental," she said as she stood on the Bowery and pointed an antique Polaroid toward the club's ragged, soiled awning, and a mob of photographers and reporters gathered around her.

Then the whole small mob, now gathered on shore, turned inland and began hurrying through low bush toward the temple.

A mob of white men, led by volatile adolescents, gathered at the Douglas County Courthouse, their numbers growing by the hour.