19 examples of criers in sentences

In the more thickly-populated quarters of the city of Bombayquarters that are rarely explored by the European, a succession of criers and hawkers pass through the streets from morn till eve and sometimes far into the night.

Slaves are sold by criers about the streets in Morocco, and most towns, and not in bazaars, as in the East.

Arthur commanded that the criers should proclaim that all honest folk must return to their toil.

All the way to the laboratory my ears were tortured with the criers announcing the names of the condemned, a large number of men, women, and children.

Proclamation criers.

When the consuls had laid the matter before the senate, a matter that was doubtful, though vouched for by a thoroughly reliable authority, the authority, more than the matter itself, as usually happens, urged them to adopt even needless precautions; and a decree of the senate having been passed that the Volscians should quit the city, criers were sent in different directions to order them all to depart before night.

Leddy had the peculiar slouch of the desperado, which is associated with the spread of pioneering civilization by the raucous criers of red-blooded individualism.

These sauce-criers were first called saulciers, then vinaigriers-moustardiers, and when Louis XII.

It is horrible to hear the street criers bawling out in their catchpenny voices, "Serious illness of Lord Derby."

You must have observed that all the Criers in the Street attract the Attention of the Passengers, and of the Inhabitants in the several Parts, by something very particular in their Tone it self, in the dwelling upon a Note, or else making themselves wholly unintelligible by a Scream.

The servants of the great king Quetzalcoatl were skilled in all manner of arts; when he sent them forth they flew to any part of the world with infinite speed; and his edicts were proclaimed from the summit of the mountain Tzatzitepec, the Hill of Shouting, by criers of such mighty voice that they could be heard a hundred leagues away.

Criers are going up and down the camp with articles of Persian apparel, cooking pots, and ornaments of various descriptions in their hands, or carrying them off for higher bidding to the town.

For his sake, the bells in the neighborhood were tiedthe criers did not come within sound of the housenor was the sound of wheels heard upon the street.

"The first of Term, the fatal day, Doth various images convey; First, from the courts with clam'rous bawl, The criers their attornies call; One of the gown discreet and wise, By proper means his witness tries; From Wreathock's gang, not right or laws, H' assures his trembling client's cause.

Now the kite had soon found that the belt was not good to eat and seeing the snake's skin which the old man had thrown on to the roof of the house, it dropped the belt and flew off with the skin; and the daughter-in-law picked up the belt and when criers came round offering a reward she produced it and received the money.

You must have observed that all the Criers in the Street attract the Attention of the Passengers, and of the Inhabitants in the several Parts, by something very particular in their Tone it self, in the dwelling upon a Note, or else making themselves wholly unintelligible by a Scream.

A Citizen who is waked by one of these Criers, may regard him as a kind of Remembrancer, come to admonish him that it is time to return to the Circumstances he has overlooked all the Night-time, to leave off fancying himself what he is not, and prepare to act suitably to the Condition he is really placed in.

All business was stopped, and the criers took their breath as soon as the discordant concert commenced.

Many a time during the first days of October I left my glass of beer or cup of tea half finished and rushed from cafe and restaurant with the crowd to see if the newspaper criers of headlines were announcing the fall of the fortress on the Scheldt, How those people discussed the terms of the coming early peace, terms which were not by any means easy!

19 examples of  criers  in sentences