I cried afterward, of course, but all he did was laugh at my tears.

Some child, crying over the cooling bodies of its parents?

She cried, in a voice at once expressive of surprise and sorrow.

She cried a little harder, ashamed of herself, but needing to do it.

In the background he heard running footsteps, then cries of distress.

Men don't want to cry, of course, because it's unmanly.

I cried all day because of joy and also of sorrow.

There are too many mortals who will now cry of uncanny forces.

As she left the stage there were again cries of 'More!

How many babies were crying of hunger right now and being beaten for their trouble?