But she speedily recovered herself, and acknowledged the stunning cries with a graceful inclination of her person.
After making the dungeon ring with her cries for some time, she became silent, and as he heard no sound and could distinguish nothing, he concluded she must have departed.
They were answered by deafening cries of "A Wyat !
This gracious act was followed by the acclamations of the bystanders; and the air resounded with cries of "God save Queen Mary !
Your cries are in vain," cried Wolfytt, kicking him down the steps; "no one can save you now.
As he advanced the cries grew louder, and he became aware, from the noise around, that legions of rats were fleeing before him.
Baron Mengen, one of the household of Prince Lichtenstein, at Vienna, said that it consisted in a passion for counterfeiting the cries of animals and the voices of different persons.
I tried to make him hear me, or to reach him, but found I could do neither: his own wild cries and imprecations drowned my voice, and there were impassable fences between the high-road and the fields across which he madly hasted.
Must he keep laws and see the famine-pinched cheeks, the blue lips, and listen to wailing cries for bread?
There was a fearful crash, and the wretched woman shrieked aloud; but I was deaf to her cries as she implored me to spare him.
A negro woman gained a place of concealment, whither she was followed by her screaming child; and, fearing lest the cries of the boy should betray her, she turned and killed him at a blow.
This grateful response produced a general outburst of acclamations; and, with cries of joy, many voices were heard to exclaim, "I will go too!
Day after day the Indians continued their attacks, until their war-cries and the rattle of their guns became familiar sounds.
The variety of discordant sounds, uttered by the medicine man, need not surprise us more than those accurate imitations of the cries of various animals, to which Indian hunters are accustomed to train their strong and flexible voices.
With exulting cries they disperse to their wigwams, to array themselves in the savage decorations of the war-dress.
The dead body was soon discovered, and startled cries and wild howlings announced the event.
As wolves assail the wounded bison, howling their gathering cries across the wintry prairie, so the fierce Indians, pealing their terrific yells, came bounding naked to the assault.
The shrill cries of the ball-players were changed to the ferocious war-whoop.
Then followed the startled cries of men, and the bounding of maddened horses.
The house quivered in the wind which howled more and more madly through its long passages and empty rooms; and she thought she heard cries in the midst of the howling.
The uncouth cries of the Southland shepherds, and the barking of their dogs, were often heard in the midst of the hills long before their actual arrival.
And all places resounded with the horrors of the cruel voice of the executioners, and the cries uttered amid the clanking of chains: "Hold him!
Nevertheless, after his speech was ended, the cries were repeated with as much vigour and unanimity as ever; and so vehement was the uproar and zeal, which did not even spare reproaches and threats, that Julian was compelled to consent.
The west wind brought plainly to our ears the sound of shots and yells up in the big grove and the frightened cries of women in our camp above it.
Meanwhile our riders were rapidly gaining on them, but not rapidly enough to overtake them before they went leaping down the bank and into the water with furious pawings and kickings and cries of terror and despair.
Raising the war song, and followed by the cries of the women calling upon us to be of good courage and win, we set out upon our ride to the Musselshell.
They made a wild onset upon the bucket of water that the Twins were guarding, upset it, and with strange, wild cries leaped the barricade and rushed to the river.
She cries Whore first, brings him upon his Knees for her Fault; and a piece of Plate, or a new Petticoat, makes his Peace again.
At these words, Lamartine, interrupted by the unanimous cries of enthusiasm, fell from the chair which served for his tribune, into the arms stretched out on all sides to receive him.
The cries and plashings that had startled Jonathan were soon explained.
They experienced no serious resistance on their way to the Hotel de Ville; the crowd opened as they advanced, with cries of 'Vive la Reforme!
The child by her cries quickly brought up the landlord of the house, but too late.
These cries neither caused Lamartine to hesitate, to retire, nor to turn pale.
At daybreak, whilst lying in his berth, Romer hears a bustle on deck, followed by shrill cries and plunges in the water.
The hideous crowd which filled the hall retired, amidst criesof 'Vive Lamartine!
Then he kneels on the ground close to the fire, and in a loud voice cries out, "Come, oh come!
He next proceeded to pray, kneeling in front of the altar; and continued praying till the unearthly cries of the toads announced the fact that the water, in which they were immersed, was beginning to boil.
There was a great scuffling outside, and cries and loud voices.
The unsuspected group of listeners on the terrace slipped from their own control and took to vigorous hand-smiting and cries of delight.
Strange and fitful cries were said to be heard in the glen, and doleful wailings, as of some one in agony.
I know not what he said, for the low criesof the women filled the air; but his face was white as a smock, and his fingers writhed in one another like a knot of worms.
In this, phantom figures moved, appeared, and vanished; hoarse cries resounded, and a general air of wild confusion and alarm prevailed.
Then from the upturned faces of the women cries of pity and anguish broke forth, and men nipped one another's arms and gasped, and knew not what counsel to offer.
The complaints of the settlers and the cries of the soldiers penetrated into the quæstor's tribunal.
And I, an old man, praise thy beauty like the bird of night which cries all unheeded upon the nuptial roof.
The birds' last cries had re-echoed from the bright roof of San-Giovanni.
Their wild cries rose above the musician's voice, and vainly he endeavoured to make the harmonious sounds which proceeded from his mouth and his lyre heard by the assembly.
In the distance he heard the neighing of horses and the regular cries of the sentinels.
I had no nerve for what I have no doubt followed, and hurried out just as he had thrown himself on his hard bed, and I heard his cries ringing behind the door as I again closed it.
I saw a number of people collected at the mouth of the Fountain Close, and heard dreadful cries of murder from the high windows of a house a little way down the entry.
So shall it be with every soul of man who, being in the deep, cries out of that deep to God, whether in bloody India or in peaceful England.
Our Father hears the man who cries to him, however clumsily, for light and strength to do his duty.
The wailing of curlews rose and fell; the sharp cries of the cliff-hawks beat against Craig-Ruaidh.
In the birk-shaws, the cries of the merles sounded like shrill flutes.
The occasional cries of ewes upon the hills were only as remote falling waves in the sea of silence and darkness.
Dud, hunting for his father, passed near it, and heard stifled cries come from under it.
But Bubby's fretful cries told that what was left was bad enough.
I thought just now I heard cries in that direction," said Jack.
I remember I dashed into a long, narrow street that seemed half deserted, then turned corner after corner, but behind me, ever increasing, rose the cries of the doomed populace.
The Captain made the turn very neatly and Jim was about to follow the leading car, when several shrill cries from the girls ahead caused him to put on the emergency brakes.
But as they went deeper in the jungle and got nearer the spot they were aiming for, the cries ceased.
I scarce dared to pray, save in broken words that were only like cries of pain.
Oh, deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against mighty wrong!
He was interrupted by criesof "No more Carmagnoles!
Their criesand contortions had appalled the European ministers of justice, but had not produced the smallest effect on the iron stoicism of the prisoner.
The rabble of the Faubourg St. Antoine rose, menaced the deputies, and demanded with loud cries the liberation of the persecuted patriots.
Proudly the note of the trumpet is sounding, Loudly the war cries rise on the gale; Fleetly the steed by Lough Swilly is bounding To join the thick squadrons in Saimear's green vale.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
