Cries
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Noticing that during the next act her box remained empty, Vronsky left the theatre amid
cries
of 'hush' from the audience, which had become quiet to listen to a cavatina.
With lusty
cries
and a sound of the beating of concave wings so peculiar to the double-snipe, a bird rose; and, following the report of the gun, it fell heavily on its white breast ten paces from the first spot into the wet bog.
Whilst the air entered in icy whiffs, both of them, becoming angry, maintained the truth of their own information, until
cries
and tears broke out.
These
cries
became unbearable.
Hidden beneath the clothes and soothed by the warmth of the bed, her
cries
subsided into the greedy little sound of her lips.
The
cries
redoubled, and there was a terrible push which shook the wall, followed by complete silence.
Around them the settlement was asleep; one only heard the stray
cries
of a child or the complaints of a belated drunkard.
And she never ceased; while other cries, more heart-breaking lamentations, were heard from a neighbouring house: Chicot's wife and children were weeping over the body.
A thunder of
cries
and exclamations responded to him.
The crowd around Chaval grew threatening, and fists were raised and
cries
of "Kill him!
The
cries
began again, and men were hustled away from the shaft, at the risk of being crushed against the walls.
In less than five minutes the whole pit belonged to them; they swarmed at every storey in the midst of furious gestures and cries, carried away by their victory over this master who resisted.
Again
cries
arose:"To Madelaine!
And in this growing ferocity, in this old need of revenge which was turning every head with madness, the choked
cries
went on, death to traitors, hatred against ill-paid work, the roaring of bellies after bread.
But this witticism was carried away in the hurricane of gestures and
cries.
In fact, the tumult began again, and Maigrat thought he heard his own name in the midst of the
cries.
And the
cries
ceased, and silence spread over the growing darkness.
On the pit-bank of the Voreux a sentinel was always placed in the frozen wind that blew up there, like a look-out man above the flat plain; and every two hours, as though in an enemy's country, were heard the sentry's cries:"Qui vive?
The sergeant was approaching with his men, and the regulation
cries
were exchanged.
He listened, trembling lest he should hear the
cries
of a beaten woman.
Of the violent speeches he had heard in the forest, the
cries
of destruction and death shouted among the pits, five or six words had remained with him, and these he repeated like a street urchin playing at revolution.
She lashed him on, dazing him, shouting behind him
cries
of death, stifling her daughter against her breast with the spasm of her arms; and he still moved forward until he was opposite the guns.
But heart-rending
cries
arose while the bugle was sounding to cease firing.
The colliers who had rushed to the Deux-Cent-Quarante settlement, as though pursued by the cracking tubbing, had frightened the families; and bands of women, old men, and little ones came running up, shaken by
cries
and sobs.
As he sank down he heard the
cries
becoming louder, and he was obliged to stop; an impassable obstacle barred the shaft--a mass of scaffolding, the broken joists of the guides, the split brattices entangled with the metal-work torn from the pump.
Evidently, when he held her, he must have become furious, constantly pressing, overthrown with her, and stifling her
cries
to the last groan.
The rolling of the trams shook the metal floor, the drums were turning, unrolling the cables in the midst of
cries
from the trumpet, the ringing of bells, blows of the mallet on the signal block; he found the monster again swallowing his daily ration of human flesh, the cages rising and plunging, engulfing their burden of men, without ceasing, with the facile gulp of a voracious giant.
As he had only just set up on the place, he had taken a lot of trouble, and at dessert he himself brought in a set dish that evoked loud
cries
of wonderment.
Swallows flitted to and fro uttering little cries, cut the air with the edge of their wings, and swiftly returned to their yellow nests under the tiles of the coping.
She listened for steps, cries, the noise of the ploughs, and she stopped short, white, and trembling more than the aspen leaves swaying overhead.
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