cry down
Example Sentences
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“You don’t mind,” she whispered, “if I cry down your neck, do you?”
From At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern by Reed, Myrtle
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
Suddenly he heard a loud voice cry down out of the air: “I want my head back again!”
From The Chinese Fairy Book by Wilhelm, Richard
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
It was to their interest to cry down the equivalence of silver; they paid less and received more.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
