Слово "horde". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.

The battle to move sluggish hearts as the barbarian hordes come closer.

He could not encounter that howling horde with his tail and hind-quarters. These were scarcely fit weapons with which to meet the many merciless fangs.

Live satin butterflies bobbed above the heads of the dancing hordes, flowers poured down from the ceiling.

The moment the ship made fast to the wharf, the decks were overrun by a horde of the strangest-looking people Jamie had ever seen. There were touts for all the different hotels—black men, yellow men, brown men and red men frantically offering to bear away luggage—and small boys running back and forth with newspapers and sweets and fruits for sale. Hansom drivers who were half-castes, Parsis or blacks were yelling their eagerness to be hired. Vendors and men pushing drinking carts called attention to their wares.

Some rustling, as if from wings against the walls, was now coming from the ballroom, and it was clear that unprecedented hordes of guests were dancing there, and it seemed to Margarita that even the massive marble, mosaic and crystal floors of this prodigious room were pulsing rhythmically.

Not hordes but quite a few.

It’s indescribable,’ said the visitor coyly. ‘Parole d’honneur — I haven’t known anything like it for twenty-five years…’ the creature started struggling with his flybuttons… ‘Would you believe it, professor — hordes of naked girls every night.

There's an aboriginal horde out there massing for an attack.