There was, furthermore, the crowd of curious onlookers gathered in the street and a couple more cops to hold them at a decent distance.

But Carl later remembered that the crowd which gathered at Midland's market place made a strong impression on him.

An immense crowd gathered in the Champ de Mars to sign the petition.

During the trial, a crowd of armed Métis men led by Louis Riel Sr. gathered outside the courtroom.

Some accounts attributed that to the intimidating armed crowd gathered outside the courthouse.

A crowd gathered at the church, and at the entrance of the party animosities began to show, especially in an angry exchange between the bishop and the Reformer's protectors.

A diverse crowd gathered under one roof, something that happened nowhere else in the city.

By now a crowd had gathered in the forum, The presence of the magistrates among the revolutionaries kept them in good order.

But instead of paying up, local police officers panicked and tried to get rid of Miss Phombeya ( now visibly parading her anger in front of the verandah restaurant ) in the process hurting her toe ; whereupon a crowd soon gathered outside Ryall's Hotel and quickly the mood shifted from the ' hurting toe ' to protesting the imprisonment of Banda and other local leaders by the federation government.

In November 1990, following a speech to an audience of mostly Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn, as a crowd of well-wishers gathered around Kahane in the second-floor lecture hall in midtown Manhattan's Marriott East Side Hotel, Kahane was assassinated.

After a day of angry protests by exiled Iranian radical marxists, a group widely supported by German students, the Shah visited the Berlin Opera, where a crowd of German student protesters gathered.

Thousands of people had gathered in front of the Stonewall, which had opened again, choking Christopher Street until the crowd spilled into adjoining blocks.

His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, " Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot ; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

Hugh Despenser the Younger was brutally executed and a huge crowd gathered in anticipation at seeing him die – a public spectacle for public entertainment.

Hugh Despenser the younger was sentenced to be brutally executed on 24 November, and a huge crowd gathered in anticipation at seeing him die.

: crowd is gathered around a series of photographs which though initially seeming to depict garbage instead reveal dead human bodies.

The dismissal was by then publicly known, and an angry crowd of ALP supporters had gathered, filling the steps and spilling over both into the roadway and into Parliament House itself.

On July 19, 1848, the morning of the first day of convention, the organizing committee arrived at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel shortly before ten o ' clock on a hot, sunny day to find a crowd gathered outside and the church doors locked — an overlooked detail.

On 12 July, the sabre charge of Charles-Eugène de Lorraine, prince de Lambesc's cavalry regiment, the Royal-Allemand, on a crowd gathered at the Tuileries gardens, sparked the Storming of the Bastille two days later.

The Peterloo Massacre ( or Battle of Peterloo ) occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60, 000 – 80, 000 that had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation.

One authority said of the crowd which gathered there, " They had the hair of their heads very few of them longer than their ears, whereupon it came to pass that those who usually with their cries attended at Westminster were by a nickname called Roundheads ".

However, the same night a crowd gathered and attacked the Roman Catholic Sardinian Embassy Chapel in Duke Street.

During 3 June a crowd had gathered in Moorfields, and by nightfall it began to go on the rampage.

Now reconciled, the brothers walk together towards the gathered crowd of police.

A crowd of between 5, 000 and 8, 000 gathered to watch the executions — a large group considering the entire population was only around 12, 000.

Enough of his life was spent there on the field for him never to like watching the game as a spectator in the crowd.

The night was cold but the crowd kept one warm.

It was a quarter of seven when the crowd washed me up among the other gallants who had established the Astor steps as the beach-head from which to launch their night of merrymaking.

I looked for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, curdling crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came to life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica??

This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.

The usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent ; ;

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

Each high note had the crowd in ecstasy so that it stopped the show midway in the `` Mad Scene '', but the real reason was a realization of the extraordinary performance unfolding at the moment.

The two little bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out, by the opposite door handle which she would be clutching, whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so much store time on the pot.

There was a crowd in the stands for a change and the sun was hot.

Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the Second and Fourth Tests at Lord's and Headingley respectively ; the crowd at Headingley remains a record, and it was there that Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory.

An innovation in William's coronation ceremony was that before the actual crowning, Ealdred asked the assembled crowd, in English, if it was their wish that William be crowned king.

Andronikos was now formally proclaimed as co-emperor before the crowd on the terrace of the Church of Christ of the Chalkè, and not long afterwards, on the pretext that divided rule was injurious to the Empire, he caused Alexios II to be strangled with a bow-string ( October 1183 ).

Alexios II was compelled to acknowledge Andronikos as colleague in the empire in front of the crowd on the terrace of the Church of Christ of the Chalkè and was then quickly put to death in turn ; the killing was carried out by Tripsychos, Theodore Dadibrenos and Stephen Hagiochristophorites.

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

Wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield's skull was fractured by a ball hitting his head ( although the ball had first glanced off the bat and Larwood had an orthodox field ), almost precipitating a riot by the Australian crowd.