Now the whole throng appeared to be buzzing as Anderson stepped to the free-throw line, the score 97-95.
But as his adviser and friend Roger Wilkins pointed out the other day, whole throngs of senators feel fully entitled to run for President.
Obviously the whole throng couldn't pet the animal, all those reaching hands would eventually wear him down like a pencil eraser.
They waited and the sound became voices many voices, murmuring like a millrace a whole throng of people traveling south, away from Askelon.
A loud yell followed, and the whole throng hurried off, mad for pillage and destruction.
Only the young men retained the restless energy which had filled the whole throng a short while before.
He wondered whether he was the only person in the whole teeming throng that minded the noise and the stink.
"We just didn't have any idea that we were going to be in a whole throng of people."
In an instant the whole throng, who had at first united against the aggression of one man, were divided by the hereditary wrath of faction.
We have indictments against Justin, against the Governor, his wife, against a whole throng of lesser villains.