cry down
Example Sentences
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The more protection he had the more money he could get, and consequently it would not be natural for him to cry down his own protection.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green
First Mr. Drummond comes, and talks to us as though we were doing wrong; and, then you, to cry down our honest labor, and call it suicide!
From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
From a hundred mean and dishonest Artifices employ'd to discredit this Edition, and to cry down its Editor, I have all the Grounds in nature to beware of Attacks.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
I mean, of course, fox-hunting, for I cannot attempt to cry down the many splendid and manly hunts of other descriptions in which the Americans carry off the palm.
From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Lambert, Nannie
V: You may see hence how injurious they are to grace who cry down the law.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
