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Antlike swarms of work gangs took an average of only 48 hours to repair bombed roads, as little as 72 hours to fix shattered rail lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Antlike, men were swarming everywhere bent upon changing, and yet they changed nothing.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Never will I forget it, there on the mountain face, Antlike, men with their burdens, clinging in icy space; Dogged, determined and dauntless, cruel and callous and cold, Cursing, blaspheming, reviling, and ever that battle-cry—"Gold!"

From Ballads of a Cheechako by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)