Before Mr. Bush arrived, a small crowd of well-dressed political donors massed around the windows near the ballroom, looking out at the protesters with interest.

The crowds are massing on the Croisette and the delegates are broiling as they queue for their accreditation.

The crisis was in cubicle six, where a crowd of personnel had massed around the doorway.

Back outside the stage door the crowds are massing and the rain's still falling.

When it became clear in January that he would wriggle free, huge, angry crowds massed in the streets to demand his ouster.

A small crowd of birders massed, oohing and aahing.

The church is small, and a large crowd massed behind a fence in an empty field across the street.

On 25 May 1983, crowds massed outside the building, waiting for the outcome of the trial.

As word spread that the verdict had been reached, crowds massed outside the seaside courthouse.

In the castle courtyard, only partially visi-ble from this angle, a small crowd massed.