A midshipman was bleeding to death, calling for his mother, which pathetic cry swelled into a shriek of terror as a rebel stepped back on the boy's sliced belly.

In the third song, the cries of woe were more affecting for being subtly shaped; the longest cry swelled to a forte, then resignedly sighed into silence.

The cry rose and swelled and broke to audibility as the whole Group took to the sky as one.

A silent, despairing cry swelled and broke in Morgon's chest.

The cry rolled up and swelled with the violence of a tempest, till little by little it filled the distance, the depths of the Bois as far as Mont Valerien, the meadows of Longchamps and the Plaine de Boulogne.

And a great inhuman cry swelled in the darkness, rolling up the walls.

The cry swelled, and with it the news spread.

A cry swelled in the late-afternoon air.

My cry swelled, echoed among the trees, repeated over and over again.

As the rumbling built steadily up and up, windows began to shatter, plaster ceilings began to fall, and the inhuman cry of twisting beams and foundations swelled into a frightening chorus.