159 examples of cry like in sentences
Mother, Mother, if you won't cry like that ..." McRae used the simple remedies he had.
" Sinister words, I had to admit, and I was not surprised that Aunt Dahlia, hearing them, should have uttered a cry like the wail of a master of hounds seeing a fox shot.
And Tharagavverug swung clumsily away, uttering one fearful cry like the sound of a great church bell that had become possessed of a soul that fluttered upward from the tombs at nightan evil soul, giving the bell a voice.
Don't cry like this, little girl, don't cry like this, like a fool: I only wanted to know if you had heard anything.
And as I looked upon that face I shrank back dazed, and breathless, and blindedshrank back with a cry like the cry of one smitten of the lightning; for beneath the wide white brows there shone out eyes, before the awful purity of which my sin-stained soul seemed to scorch and to shrivel like a scroll in a furnace.
" Valencia began to cry like any baby; but rose and carried away the tea in her hand.
" So Magbolotó spread the jars of luñga on the sand, and at noon began to gather them up; but sunset had come before he had gathered more than five handfuls, so he sat down and began to cry like a little boy.
Despite of frequent defects of workmanship, they cling to the memory through their truth and intensity, though to many a reader to-day such, episodes may be chiefly known to exist through a parenthesis in one of Macaulay's Essays, where he speaks of "that pathetic passage in Crabbe's Borough which has made many a rough and cynical reader cry like a child.
CHAPTER XXV The Rift in the Clouds "My dear child, I can never forgive myself for having made you cry like this!"
Don't cry like that, or I'll throw a doll at you.
He had seen men cry like that but, oddly enough, never a woman.
Have a care; for if you do rouse the devil within me, the consequences shall fall heavily upon your own head!" He had scarcely spoken, when Squeers, in a violent outbreak of wrath, and with a cry like the howl of a wild beast, struck him a blow across the face with his instrument of torture, which raised up a bar of livid flesh as it was inflicted.
" "And so am I. You could not make me cry like that again, Ross, if you were to pinch me.
Why, I've seen him go away into a corner and cry like a baby at a sharp word from his brother Dick.
And then it struck her as funny, as even absurd, that she should cry like this!
The sight of such things was enough to make a fellow cry like a baby!...
When, by divine grace, we escape from the voice of the crowd, and from the cry of custom, from the delirium of desire, that poor lonely self within us pleads to us in a cry like the call of the starveling crying to the rich man that passes by, "Oh, will you gratify desire?
'My dear, good girl, don't cry like that,' he said awkwardly.
In its disposition the tapir is peaceful and quiet, and, unless hard pressed, never attempts to attack either man or beast; when, however, the hunter's dogs surround it, it defends itself very vigorously with its teeth, inflicting terrible wounds, and uttering a cry like a shrill kind of whistle, which is in strange contrast with the massive bulk of the animal.
" Theodore Watts wrote: "Never before these songs were sung, and never since, did the human soul, in the grip of a fiery passion, utter a cry like hers."
The Raja said, "Don't cry like a baby; how can a simple child like that know better?
"Look, look!oh, look, sir!" shouted the mate with a cry like one in a nightmare; and the next moment he fainted and fell on the top of Broomberg the mutineer.
I have seen him cry like a child at evidences of their love for him, he whose courage no danger could daunt, and who was never seen to blench before hatred nor change his stern immobility in the face of his foes.
This is the reason why I used to have such fearful crises once in a while in my dumb life, as when I was treated so kindly by Captain Sproule just after my stepfather whipped me; or when I nearly killed Ace, my fellow-driver, on the canal in my first and successful rebellion; or when I used to grow white, and cry like a baby in my fights with rival drivers.
"For God's sake do not cry like this!