Much as Marla recounted, it seemed to be much colder outdoors than it had been in the caves, so the survivors crowded together against the splintered timbers in a pathetic effort to stay warm.

He said: "As the land refuses to support the people, the survivors will crowd into smaller and smaller refuges.

As the ship went down, the survivors would crowd into the forecastle, where he could better see them.

In the mid-1970's, poachers decimated herds of elephants on the park's periphery, causing the survivors to crowd into Amboseli for sanctuary.

The survivors, homeless and bereaved, crowded on to high ground.

The survivors crowded onto the benches or stood in the aisle like commuters on a Tokyo subway.

She couldn't count them, for they milled about too much, but she had the impression that every survivor in the compound had crowded into the corner of the fence nearest the sunset.