Telling a girl not to cry is an infallible recipe for keeping her at it.
Del curled the red feather about her fingers, and put her hat on over her eyes, then a little cry broke from her, half sob, half anger.
At the bottom of the stairs she steps with her whole weight flat upon something that squirms, and is warm, and turns over, and utters a cry that makes night hideous.
She fled from him with a cry like the cry of a suffocated creature, shut her door, and locked it with a ringing clang.
Besides, I shall cry again, and I won't cry again.
A darkness swept over both faces then; she did not even hear Muff's whining cry at her ear.
The following day, just after dinner, I was writing in the library, when a child's cry of fright and pain startled me.
It seemed to Mrs. Wade that the very room quivered with his low cry that was almost a groan.
Billy would simply cry himself to sleep--it was bad for his whole nervous system, but it would not actually make him sick.
In the meantime the troop gave a shrill cry of fear and decamped with the utmost speed, and for a long time afterwards we could hear the noise of the branches as they rose again after the monkeys had leaped to others.
He looked in a certain direction, then uttered a cry of anger and defiance towards the place.
If only I could crymy heart out and tell you everything!
The cry was so peculiar, so expressive of suffering, so piercing, yet at the same time so feeble, that it instantly arrested the attention of everybody, and all stood staring tensely in the direction from which it had come.
His "sail ho" warned the master of the steamer that he was discovered and he put about at the cry and steamed furiously away toward Mariel.
During the flashes of lightning the dead and wounded could be seen lying in blood-red water, but neither the elements of heaven nor the destructive power of man could wring a cry of protest from the wounded.
The cry of the crowd was suddenly hushed, its swaying was suddenly stilled.
Lynn did not cry out again, half in earnest and half in jest, begging his grandmother to spare romance; but he got up, silently, and took a turn or two about the room.
But the child sat quite still on the rug where her mother had placed her; and she did not cry when Sidney went away, as Miss Judy feared she would, although her lips quivered.
A cry of terror had gone up from the crowd when the blow had been struck.
She would probably cry unless Mrs. Talcott stayed with her, and she did not want Tante to find her crying.
And he'd never asked any more than to live in a garret with her and adore her, and paint his lanky people and eat bread and cheese; he told me so, poor boy; he just used to lay his head down on my lap and cry like a baby sometimes.
But wherever a man or woman is, and whatever may be the season, one earnest cry arises in the bosom, and it is for beer.
Don’t stop me; I must cry again, or I may do something worse.
About that I cared to make no fuss; for it even seemed a pleasure to me that none but myself should know these things; remembering as I did, that no one ever could cry as my Kitty could.
You shall have all this, and I’ll cry quits, and give you any undertaking you require, as soon as I get my wife back again.
There kiss me, my pretty dear, and don’t cry any more, till he makes you.
Well, did ever you see a young ’ooman cry enough to fill a bucket, let alone a boat?
There was no cry from the boat; and it might have been passed as a mere wreck, had not the lynx eye of Barney noticed a dark object clinging to it.
A loud cry of a different kind here interrupted his soliloquy, and soon after the first cry was repeated louder than before.
A terrible cry was borne to land by the gale, and all her masts went overboard.
Suddenly a cry arose from below, a cry the dread import of which a sailor too well knows--"Fire!
Tis a cry more wild than all; And the hills with muffled voices Answer 'Daphne!
Something more than earth I cryfor still: I cannot be at peace In having Love upon a mortal lease.
Pan, with all his sylvan troop, Thro' the vista'd woodland valleys Blocks her course with cry and whoop!
To suffer for an evil unrevealed; Dreadful it is to hear the perishing cry Of those we love; the silence that succeeds How dreadful!
For altar and hearth" was the rallying cry of the Roman soldier.
A sudden cry caused him to break his resolution, and he never could withdraw his gaze again.
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