Screams rent the air, as the crowd recoiled in sudden panic.

- The crowd recoiled.

At the three avenues it was as if the crowd were recoiling back into itself, but into a space that no longer had room.

The crowd simultaneously surged forward and recoiled, as curiosity struggled with discretion.

The crowd recoiled and many gasped.

There was a confusion of bodies, a wave of pushing and shoving as the crowd recoiled.

The crowd that had spilled into the street recoiled in a huddle to the sidewalk.

The crowd recoiled abruptly, and some made furtive signs to avert conjury.

He got no further; the crowd recoiled from his breath of bullock dung under a hot sun, and Picture Singh began to guffaw.

The crowd recoiled on itself, milled, moaned, gibbered.