Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets. " Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.
. . . [We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
A beguiling lady doesn't take after the swarm. She is herself.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.
Life swarms with innocent monsters.
The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him. . . [from Macbeth]
