"cry" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He imagined it burning then, phoenix-like, rising from the flames with its melancholy cry: Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!
- But then she was standing on sand again, with a grey mist all round her, and the melancholy cry of gulls echoing distantly.
- Garion heard a strange, melancholy cry and raised his eyes.
- From outside a cat uttered a melancholy cry to the moon.
- A whistle blew, there was a long melancholy cry from the engine.
- Hardly were the words out of his mouth than the melancholy cry of an owl came softly sounding from the battlements above.
- A gull suddenly swooped to the sea, and his melancholy cry was like jeering laughter.
- Then, of a sudden, terror seized those unhappy men, and, with a melancholy cry of utter despair, they turned to flee back to the Court of Israel.
- And over their heads, gliding down from the Welsh hillside to the river and the sea, came a single seagull, keening its one repeated melancholy cry.
- After a few moments, during which he is forced to dab at his face, for he has been unnerved by the melancholy cry, he strikes again with the coin.
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