Several officers crowded around as the sniper read from the notes that he had jotted in his log book during the night.

The King's officers and courtiers crowded round us, talking in low voices among themselves, but the priests held back, aloof and wary.

His fellow officers crowded around, telling stories of a colonel they knew in a small town north of Baghdad who had been ambushed on the road.

Other officers crowded around, waiting expectantly.

Other officers were crowding around the captain as he issued further orders.

Meanwhile the surviving senior officers had crowded into the tent.

Seeing he was unharmed, she turned her complete attention to Samar, as other elven officers crowded inside.

The officers were crowding around now, scenting bad news.

But they lifted him up again, and the litter bearers carried him on, the young officers crowded close around him.

He held his familiar hickory quarterstaff upright between knees so that it wouldn't bump the ship's officers crowded close to him.