1 As food and clothing grew scarcer and prices rose higher and higher, the public outcry against the speculators grew louder and more venomous.
2 Pork set up an outcry which she found infuriating.
3 All their outcry did them no good, of course.
4 The outcry was renewed, and the order, not only to fire again, but to pursue, was too plainly audible.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 5 As he looked the youth gripped his outcry at his throat.
6 He was startled from this view by a shrill outcry from the tattered man.
7 When the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry.
8 Mr. Giles was at a loss to comprehend what this outcry meant; but Harry Maylie, whose perceptions were something quicker, and who had heard Oliver's history from his mother, understood it at once.
9 Raised outcry, and all came on deck.
10 I think I would have raised an outcry if I had believed my eyes.
11 Almost instantly, in the midst of a tremendous and general outcry, seven or eight horses, excited by the shouts of three hundred thousand spectators, passed by like lightning.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 12 As she spoke, Jo took off her bonnet, and a general outcry arose, for all her abundant hair was cut short.
13 They asked themselves whether he had indeed uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been the one to give that terrible outcry.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED 14 Pork, Mammy and Prissy set up outcries at the idea of working in the fields.
15 The three women broke into indignant outcries.