a-cry-ing

Updated: June 15, 2025

A year before, involved in difficulties which it seemed no combination could control, and having nearly occasioned the occupation of Syria by a united French and English force, Fakredeen burst out a-cry-ing like a little boy, and came whimpering to Eva, as if somebody had broken his toy or given him a beating.

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - Tancred: Or, The New Crusade