The next moment the room and the antechamber were literally alive with soldiers--twenty of them to arrest one man.

In 1881, Yontocket Slough was described as "literally alive with salmon" even after years of commercial harvest.

The man was literally alive and kicking; and an instant after he had dropped to the ground and turned on the intruder.

There was a good deal of flat ground up there, which was literally alive with albatross".

The tree was literally alive with Dryads, clustering randomly on the limbs like blossoms.

Its four-inch-long flowers are produced in either full sun or light shade, he added, "and they're literally alive with butterflies through early autumn."

The moss and flowers are literally alive: they will change with the seasons.

Literally alive, crawling and wiggling and tremulous as far as they could see in the lights.

The metal chair in which he was seated became literally alive with crackling electrical charges.

The Orson is Welles (real stars do not have to be literally alive).