If this hovering fog of smoke meant nothing serious, their outcry for help at the stateroom window would create trouble--maybe serious trouble.
The two mothers were on the afterdeck in comfortable chairs; Jessie hated to disturb them, for Mrs. Norwood and Mrs. Drew had not heard the first outcry regarding Henrietta.
Not a word about herself, no outcryof natural fear at the near approach of the King of Terrors!
There was an immediate outcry from below, quickly followed by savage bangs upon the underside of the hatch; but, taking no notice of these manifestations, the fellow rushed aft and at once assisted me to place Miss Onslow in the gig.
The soul of that confused and tremulous outcrywas Pardon!
He was quite upset by the outcry which came from this room at an unhappy moment during the funeral.
That her outcryhad alarmed the prisoner in his turn, causing him to leave most of the bottles below, and hasten up to the room, where he completed the deed with which he had previously threatened her.
Their physical condition is in perfect harmony with the present state of civilisation, and in this respect the system established by the crown, does not deserve the outcry raised against it.
God forbid that we should forget those few noble voices, so sadly exceptional in the general outcryagainst us!
That death-bed scene passed in a solemn hush, more mournful than any outcry of passionate grief could be.
The outcry was taken up by the parents at the railings, and spread to a complete circle of cheers, handclappings, and waved handkerchiefs.
Then all at once came a light step she knew well, the sudden little harmonious outcry of the banjo as Lance set it down to open the door, and Lance himself was in the room.
There was an instant and indignant outcry and protest.
A bitter minority of the capitalist party and its supporters seems indeed to have continued its outcry against the Revolution till the end, but it was of little importance.
A great outcry was made, and very properly, when any such conduct was suspected; and therefore the corrupt officers operated under great difficulties, and were in constant danger of detection and punishment.
Yet there was no lack of outcry that the workman was throttled and enslaved by the greed of capital.
There was no lack of outcry that profiteers were bleeding the nation to death and making martyrs of the poor.
But even this concession called out a fierce outcry from the conservatives, in and out of Parliament.
Lydia recoiled from him with an outcry of exasperation.
Lydia's remorseful outcry over having fatigued her mother seemed a good occasion for Judge Emery's entrance into the room and for his announcement.
She flung herself on him in a wild outcry of inquiry--"Which one?
These laws were enacted in the face of much outcry from employers, and were effectively administered.
The outcry against tithes for the support of the Protestant Established Church was to a great extent quieted in 1838, when the odious features of this tax were removed.
But the allegation was proved so false by the course of events, that the outcry against the Union gradually died away.
But the king and the duke had been seriously moved by the outcry against the loan of the ships to King Lewis.
The popular outcry at the mismanagement of the war, and above all at the loss of Minorca, had been too great for the feeble Newcastle to withstand.
Especially was an outcry raised by the books and pamphlets of the celebrated free-thinker and republican writer, Tom Paine, the most blatant apologist of the atrocities in Paris.
But the public outcry against the proposed resumption of office by Newcastle was so loud, that a curious and not very satisfactory compromise was arranged.
There is no outcry of anger or alarm, but one "Yang!
I have no patience with this modern outcry against creeds.
But in a little time, the great outcry against them was, that they got the trade of the country into their hands.
This outcry arose in part from a strict execution of all commercial appointments and agreements between them and others, and because they never asked two prices for the commodities which they sold.
It did not immediately affect governmental attitude, save adversely to the North, and it gave a handle for pro-Southern outcry on the score of a "servile war.
After the outcry of the Great Voice, there was a short silence.
Gradually the crackle of burning wood and the ripple of falling glass gained voice above the outcry of the crowd.
Yet, severely as they were punished, the outcry of the public at the time was that they had been let off far too easily.
At once a furious outcry arose in the States against an act which not only violated their treaty rights, but foreshadowed the coming grip of the First Consul.
And all the time she was making outcry and striking with her free wing, while feathers were flying like a snow-fall.
Wherever there was trouble and uproar in camp, fighting and squabbling or the outcry of a squaw over a bit of stolen meat, they were sure to find White Fang mixed up in it and usually at the bottom of it.
She became a pest to him, like a policeman following him around the stable and the hounds, and, if he even so much as glanced curiously at a pigeon or chicken, bursting into an outcry of indignation and wrath.
Its noise and outcry warned him of its presence, while he ran alone, velvet- footed, silently, a moving shadow among the trees after the manner of his father and mother before him.
The brooms were abaft of the galley when the outcry began which caused them to look apprehensively towards the poop without ceasing their business of washing down.
They came by break of day, and being denied entrance, made an outcry and disturbance at the gates, which excited all the more suspicion.