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DISEASE OF THE BRAIN.--In disease of the brain the cry is always sharp, short and piercing.— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
But he had heard it when a boy in Illinois, and when a man all over the West, and the cry was always the same, weird and wild, like the scream of a terrified woman.— The Last of the Plainsmen
Frobisher had already told off as many men as he could spare to carry water, but it seemed impossible to quench the poor wretches' thirst; their cry was always for more, even though they had drunk but a moment previously.— A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
And the utterance of this cry is the culminating moment to which the inquiring mind specially turns.— The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion
Then once more, with an effort, I stood up against the wall and looked into the Room again Anna kissed the woman on her forehead, in brave proximity to the immense cry When the cry was articulate, it was: "No, no!— The Inferno

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