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crying out against

vb. (present participle of cry out against English)

Usage examples of "crying out against".

Never shall I forget how his eyes flashed and he bit his boyish lip, crying out against the hardness of it.

Why, what difference is there between crying out against, and abhorring of sin?

Ruth tenses at his threat to bite, and her hands shove at his shoulders, but he clings there, his teeth bared in a silent exclamation, crying out against her smoth­.

He heard them, all of them, gasping, and then crying out against him.

Instead of crying out against Norge's pallor, Norge's distress, she swung off her nag and went after Geraden.

She gloried in it, crying out against his mouth when his hand covered her hard-peaked breast.

This afternoon, on the Avenue of Turia, a cart, putatively carrying the records of the veterans of the delta, supposedly on its way from the house of records to the war office in the Central Cylinder, had been surrounded by a group of youths, crying out against the veterans of the delta, almost as if it had been months ago, a time in which there had been several abusive demonstrations against the delta veterans, whose crime seemed to be that they had been loyal to the Home Stone and that they had been so foolish as to have served Ar, and suffered for her, in the north.

Heedless of his own danger, as children usually are, Alvin was crying out against the breaking of the millstone.

And then she heard Arthur calling out for his sword, and crying out against these enchantments.