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foule in English:

1. throng throng


He was surrounded by a throng of reporters.
Where is the cheering throng at your door?
throng of men
The throng protested against abortion.
John grabbed a megaphone and addressed the vast throng

English word "foule"(throng) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Verses" (Edith Wharton)
Fiches du livre - "A Horse Book" (Mary Tourtel)
Fiches du livre - "Later Poems" (Alice Meynell)
Fiches du livre - "Perfect Answer" (L.J. Stecher)
Fiches du livre - "Pan Tadeusz" (Adam Mickiewicz)

2. crowd crowd


crowded bus
In a sense, I am turning around the argument made by David Riesman in The Lonely Crowd.
The crowd may be on the side of Luciano, but the champ has got the skill to win and that's what matters.
Seeing the son of a whore throwing rocks at a crowd, he said: "Be careful, you could hit your father."
She caught sight of the tautology that she was looking for in a crowd of other, equally useless and potentially dangerous, tautologies.
When the All Blacks came out onto the field a roar like 'woooaahh' swept over the crowd.
A large crowd of Americans gathered outside the White House to celebrate the death of a human being in the same manner as they would celebrate winning a football game.
The unpopular politician was frequently given the razz by the crowd during his speech.
When he scored the winning goal in the final minute, the crowd went wild.
/kraʊd/ of football supporters, fans, spectators, commuters - A crowd of about 15,000 ​attended the ​concert.
Goats were everywhere! They crowded the little shop.
Crowd sourcing varies from person to person.
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
A big crowd of demonstrators were protesting against cuts in health spending.
It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.

English word "foule"(crowd) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "All for Love" (John Dryden)
Fiches du livre - "Earthbound" (Lester del Rey)
Fiches du livre - "Bramble Brae" (Robert Bridges)
Fiches du livre - "My Memoirs" (Marguerite Steinheil)
Fiches du livre - "No Great Magic" (Fritz Reuter L...

3. mob mob


The police could not control the mob.
After a while, the protesting mob became disorderly.
The angry mob overturned cars and smashed storefront windows.
The angry mob attacked the building.
He battled his way out of the mob.
Michael Jackson is mobbed by fans wherever he goes.
The mob robbed three banks simultaneously.
Smart mob is sometimes perceived as a political danger - mostly in the countries lacking in traditions of democracy.
And Fury wields the weapons of the mob, the stone and knife.
The mob controls everything in this neighbourhood.
[often passive] She was mobbed by photographers.
There's always a mob on the underground in the mornings.
an angry mob
A mob threw bottles and rocks at the police and the restaurant, completely destroying the eatery, according to media reports.
An angry mob formed in front of the city hall.

English word "foule"(mob) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Priestess of the Flame" (Sewell...
Fiches du livre - "The Abbeys of Great Britain" (H...
Fiches du livre - "The Captain of the Gray-Horse T...
Fiches du livre - "Poems With Introduction and Not...
Fiches du livre - "The Newcastle Song Book or Tyne...

4. concourse concourse


Case woke from a dream of airports, of Molly's dark leathers moving ahead on him through the concourses of Narita, Schipol, Orly...
There would also be a concourse on the third level.

English word "foule"(concourse) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Wichita" (Fred Harvey)
Fiches du livre - "The King of the City" (Keith La...
Fiches du livre - "‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London" (‘Abdu’...
Fiches du livre - "The Proclamation of Bahá’u’lláh...