Clearly, these social excesses teemed with possibilities for satire and parody, to which each audience member would nevertheless have responded in his own way.
Let them go now, and see the valleys that at one time teemed with people who were happy and contented and, comparatively speaking, comfortable.
For 50 million years, the great whales lived in perfect balance with nature, the seas teemed with whales and fish were in superabundance.
Before intensive fishing methods were employed, the seas teemed with all fish species.
The whole cheering command entered the valley, and the village teemed with activity like an anthill which had just been stirred up.
Art was filled with health and happiness; paintings teemed with busy industrial and agricultural scenes, and sculptures depicted workers, sentries, and schoolchildren.
Public newspapers and private letters teemed with the unheard-of advantages to be derived from a settlement in this highly-favoured region.
In the valleys, perennially flowing rivers teemed with fish and were bordered by seed-bearing grasslands.