There was rustling and hooting as the people converged on the roosting site from wherever they had wandered during the day.
Never before had more than 15,000 people converged in one place on the Island for the purpose of protest.
About 1,000 people converged on this tiny Wisconsin town to promote - and enjoy - marijuana at the Weedstock festival.
Several people, most of them immigrants from Africa, converged on the building yesterday, trying to salvage what they could from the charred remains of the apartment.
After the funeral people converged on the house.
Over four hundred people converged under the Kiowa Creek bridge.
In 1869, approximately 2,000 people converged on what is now Pueblo for a horse exhibition; and from that meager beginning was born the Colorado State Fair.
In a few minutes, the rocks were all gone, and the young people converged on Magnus with angry shouting.
About 3,000 people converged on foreign embassies in Tirana on March 6, believing that they would be opened to asylum-seekers (as in July 1990).
Dozens of people converged near the collapse site to gawk, and rubbernecking drivers on remaining roadways slowed traffic.