Ephraim had just spoken of the beautiful Egyptian, who had loved Hosea and at whose intercession the prisoner's chains had been removed, when loud outcries were heard at a part of the strand where many of the people had gathered.
But the dregs of the fugitive hordes were still more greedy than they, and wherever the sea washed a costly ornament ashore, there were fierce outcries and angry quarrelling.
These efforts succeeded in the case of Aceronia, for she uttered loud and continual outcries in her terror, and thus drew upon herself the blows of the assassins.
In the mean time the noise of the outcries reached the shore, and fishermen's boats began to put off with a view of coming to the rescue of the distressed vessel.
The queen seems to have made no loud outcries against her apparently forcible abduction, and the country was so convinced of the sham nature of the affair, that there was no attempt to rescue her.
This caused loud outcries in the House, but did not check their proceedings, for they sent messages to the Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer, who excused themselves by saying all those aggrieved had their remedy at law.
They went on with the usual impetuosity of their tempers, full of outcries and lamentations when taken, but madly careless of themselves, foolhardy and obstinate, while they were well.
I was not conversant in many particular families where these things happened, but the outcries of the miserable were heard afar off.
They made piteous outcries that they were cut with knives, and struck with blows.
Outcries and threats died away on the lips of the most furious.
A violent reflux of the multitude soon forced them to stop, whilst a new storm of savage outcriesburst from the other extremity of the square, near the angle of the church.
She goes into Agamemnon's chamber, whence his dying outcries are heard:-- O treachery!
When the first outcries had subsided, an attempt was made to ascertain the cause of so many untoward events.
The storm broke in wild outcries and hilarious laughter when Violetta, having sampled the catnip, threw herself on her ridging backbone, waved her four paws in the air, and indulged in a low rumbling purr, like the sound of distant thunder.
One afternoon on my home-coming, I found the women lamenting with loud outcries over the body of my eldest son, a lad of seven years.
Meanwhile a lurid light was rising in the woods behind him, and a sense of imminent danger grew on the sleeper when strange outcriesarose from the wood.
He was on the border land, twixt sleeping and waking, and the outcries were not all imaginary.
His witless friends, The savage pack with joyous outcries urge; Actæon anxious seeking: echoing loud Eager his name as absent.
Outcries shriller and shriller are heard, in some way wonderful, confused, as if not triumph but terror rings through them.
The clatter of sabres on mail and helmets was heard, like the sound of hammers, and was followed straightway by outcries and groans.
I had fallen down, almost fainting, on the other side of the wall, but these outcries instantly gave me new strength.
The church-aisles and vaults reverberated with the deafening shrieks of the nuns, and outcries of the people.
He heard their sobs and outcries renewed above the steady pant of the bellows.
For an inquisitive burgher, hearing the outcries along the road, had popped his head out of his garden door at the very moment that Tristram whizzed by, followed by the detonation.
I see Even here her mourning, and her outcries hear.
They a mixt sound of blows and outcries hear, Which seem a sign of battle fiercely plied, And (as the deafening noise demonstrates) near.
Meanwhile they hear The champion so complain, his outcries fill Orlando and all that company with fear.
His pursuers reined up with loud outcries of dismay.
It sounds more like the outcries of devils than anything that can come from the throats of Christians and men.
By this time the savages had wrought themselves up to the point of fury, for they had possessed themselves of all the liquor of the English; and their outcries and gesticulations were those of men truly possessed by evil spirits.
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