The cry of the wolves came nearer; I heard their feet soft-padding on the rocky ground; their quick panting filled the air.
It was the "expectation of the creature" finding at last a voice; the cry of a chaos that would be a kingdom!
The heads that bore them flew at the wolves with a cry feebler yet fiercer than their howling snarl, and by the cry I knew them: they were cats, led by a huge gray one.
His throat ached with a desire to cry aloud, the cry of a hawk or eagle on high, to cry piercingly of his deliverance to the winds.
An instant of wild flight had delivered him and the cry of triumph which his lips withheld cleft his brain.
The rhythm died out at once; the cry of his heart was broken.
The other children took up the cry, and actually frightened themselves into fits whenever they passed within sight of this terrible old woman.
The cry of sorcery was raised, and a young woman, named Maria Renata Sanger, was arrested on the charge of having leagued with the devil, to bewitch five of the young ladies.
In 1718, the remote county of Caithness, where the delusion remained in all its pristine vigour for years after it had ceased elsewhere, was startled from its propriety by the cry of witchcraft.
All the neighbours had taken up the cry of witchcraft against Mother Samuel; and her personal appearance, unfortunately for her, the very ideal of what a witch ought to be, increased the popular suspicion.
Suddenly she saw the corpse, stopped short, clasped her hands and raised both her arms while she uttered a sharp, heartrending cry--the cry of a wounded animal.
The cry of an owl caused him positive anguish, giving him a nervous shock that pained like a wound.
At length a shout went up to the cry of "Put him out!
His voice is the voice of a man, and his cry is the cry of a man in distress, and man must cease to be man before he can become insensible to that cry.
The cry of her baby had filled her with the courage of a hero, and--hop, she went over that horrible reptile.
From far away upon the mesa came a deep response, the cry of Old Lobo.
The nearest voices took up the cry, and hundreds echoed it.
The cry is taken up by a hundred voices, and the crowd accumulate at every turning.
Not a sound was heard save the noise that rose faintly and at intervals from the narrow street below, the cry of a hawker, the song of a street-boy, the bark of a dog.
If the cry he uttered was forced they were too much terrified to notice it.
Then suddenly a mysterious power hushes the loud tones close round her; she hears only here and there the cry of "Caesar!
The cry of battle rose high from either side, and the arrows flew from the bowstrings.
Amid the din of elemental strife, No voice may pierce but Deity supreme: And Deity supreme alone can hear, Above the hurricane's discordant shrieks, The cry of agonized humanity.
Neither her father nor the sentinels understood the meaning of the cry; but an officer within the barrier, who sprang across the court towards the staircase, heard it, and turned abruptly at the sound.
Thyrsis, from much work and little sleep, was haggard and wild of aspect; the cry of the world, "Take a position!
It happened late one night, when, as usual, the cryof "hoodaloo mungie" awakened her from a sound slumber.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the cry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
