Literary notes about Teeming (AI summary)
The term "teeming" emerges in literature as a vivid descriptor for an environment or mind overflowing with life, ideas, or activity. Writers often use it to paint landscapes and settings brimming with natural vitality—an island alive with animals ([1]) or a garden reverberating with the sounds of life ([2]). It equally captures the abundance within the human psyche, as when a character’s mind buzzes with wild plans and intense imagery ([3], [4]). Moreover, "teeming" extends beyond nature to depict bustling urban scenes or even the powerful surge of creative thought, conveying both the beauty and, at times, the overwhelming chaos inherent to life ([5], [6], [7]).
- [Pg 175] great was their surprise on landing to find the island teeming with animal life, yet undisturbed by human habitation.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen - And there one can hear all the teeming life of the garden, of the trees and the streams and the sky.
— from Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola - My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do."
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. Wells - [523] arrives: he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson - The track of the epidemic through these teeming barracks was as clearly defined as the track of a tornado through a forest district.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis - Quite near were wide streets brightly lit, teeming at this moment with life: carriages were rolling through them to balls or to the opera.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - A third fund of Shakspeare's peculiar power lies in his teeming fertility of fine thoughts and sentiments.
— from Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
