Thronging

Soon as he saw the captured city fall, / the palace-gates burst open, and the foe / dealing wild riot in his inmost hall, / up sprang the old man and, at danger's call, / braced o'er his trembling shoulders in a breath / his rusty armour, took his belt withal, / and drew the useless falchion from its sheath, / and on their thronging spears rushed forth to meet his death.

On we stride / through shadowy ways; and I who rushing spear / and thronging foes but lately had defied, / now fear each sound, each whisper of the air, / trembling for him I lead, and for the charge I bear.

People are thronging the Christmas market.

Tooth-drawers' bills, and tedious proclamations / In meal-markets, with throngings to see cutpurses […]

Look at the arduous exertion required of middle life; the thronging anxieties that spring up for others more than for ourselves;...