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  • Days and nights of deeper darkness follow —; then there comes the cry,

    The Voyage of Magellan 2010

  • Come now, let these four boys cast lots, the captain he did cry,

    “Some day, all the fools will be dead....” 2008

  • Waving his arms frantically, he finally managed to cry,

    Stalling 2010

  • I love Hillary and don't know if I can let go of her skirt, but I am going to try my hardest, and I will not cry, I will not cry,

    Edwards, Hillary, Obama, And Rezko 2009

  • Exactly the same in all the wrong places and in a nearly endless sea of heavy sighs, I'm not really sure if I should laugh or cry,

    hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2009

  • Save the youth who in couplets and rhymes shall cry,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 'O, I have got a sixpence!' cried one; 'and I've got a shilling!' said another; while the mother of the little tribe came from her wash-tub, and called out, 'God bless your ladyship!' and the father quitted a little garden at the side of his cottage, to bow down to the ground, and cry,

    Camilla 2008

  • So he made towards his steed and mounted and heeled167 him on, when he sped as the shaft speeds from the bow and in his hand he still hent his brand bare of sheath, which he brandished shouting the while his war cry,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Hearkening unto the voice of the tardy repentant cry,

    Two Poets 2007

  • Pierrotin took Rougeot by the bridle and gave that guttural cry,

    A Start in Life 2007

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