cry for

• “The rest was lost in pandemonium, some howling him down, others taking up his cry for war, Maka Khan and the spokesmen helpless before the storm of noise.”

  Flashman and the Mountain of Light

• “The Scotch had been roused to the defenceless condition of their country by the alarming appearance of Thurot in Scotch waters in 1759, and had instantly with one voice raised a cry for the establishment of a national militia.”

  Life of Adam Smith

• “Cavour was ready even to forestall the cry for precautionary measures; the air was full of wild rumours, and he thought that Victor Emmanuel's days and his own were threatened, a baseless suspicion, for the most reckless conspirators in those times accounted regicide madness in a free country.”

  Cavour

• “God, who beholds all the past, to whom the darkness is as noonday; who is waiting now, at the eleventh hour, for her to turn to him, and confess her sin, and cry for mercy — now, before the night of death comes, and the moment of pardon is for ever fled, like yesterday that returneth not.”

  Adam Bede

• ““For the Neo-Platonist,” according to classical scholar Charles Boer, “the soul does not want to be in the body, and melancholy is its cry for escape.””

  Simon & Schuster: Experiencing the Next World Now

• “The situation in Piedmont was briefly this: Charles Albert's heart was with the growing cry for independence, but he wished for independence without liberty.”

  Cavour

• “I understand that Stokely's chronicles, which is a cry for black power.”

  Oral History Interview with John Lewis, November 20, 1973. Interview A-0073. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “And the Red Mosque showdown became both a rallying cry for the militants and a pivot point that caused many of the different jihadist groups in Pakistan to turn against their government.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• “A pibroch would cry for the wounded man but I needed more - I needed something tougher.”

  To The Hilt

• “Then he went down with her to the bazar and delivered her to the broker and said to him, “O Hajj Hasan,29 I pray thee note the value of her thou hast to cry for sale.””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

Show 10 more examples...