When yester-eve the moon arose, then did I fancy it about to bear a sun: so broad and
teeming did it lie on the horizon.
The jungle, as usual, was
teeming with life, but as Ned and Tom did not wish to kill wantonly they refrained from shooting until later in the day.
Nothing ever arrests its sleepless industry but the coming of a heavy fog, which clothes the
teeming stream in a mantle of impenetrable stillness.
I think there was no individual in the party whose brain was not
teeming with thoughts and images and memories invoked by the grand history of the venerable city that lay before us, but still among them all was no "voice of them that wept."
He did not say brilliant things, but he talked inspiringly, with an eager vividness which fired the imagination; Philip, living so much in a world of make-believe, found his fancy
teeming with new pictures.
Below him he looked to see the
teeming metropolis of Ptarth.
Wyeth was the first ready; and, with his usual promptness and hardihood, launched his frail bark, singly, on this wild and hazardous voyage, down an almost interminable succession of rivers, winding through countries
teeming with savage hordes.
She had been told that, rough and brutal as they seemed just then, they were not like this all the year round, but were, in fact, quite civil persons save during certain weeks of autumn and winter, when, like the inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, they ran amuck, and made it their purpose to destroy life--in this case harmless feathered creatures, brought into being by artificial means solely to gratify these propensities--at once so unmannerly and so unchivalrous towards their weaker fellows in Nature's
teeming family.
Danger and difficulty I had been prepared to face; but the task that I was set was a hundred-fold harder than any that had whirled through my
teeming brain.
During the long hours of darkness they caught but fitful snatches of sleep, for the night noises of a great jungle
teeming with myriad animal life kept their overwrought nerves on edge, so that a hundred times they were startled to wakefulness by piercing screams, or the stealthy moving of great bodies beneath them.
For half an hour the silence of the grim forest was broken only by the ordinary sounds of the
teeming life that but adds to its lowering loneliness.
It was a condition not unknown to them, for in all their experience, at one time or another, they had travelled one year through a region
teeming with game, where, a year or two or three years later, no game at all would be found.