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Such lines as The Dinlay snaw was ne'er mair white Nor the lyart locks o' Harden's hair are cryingly modern and "Scottesque."

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew

He neither cut out nor improved the cryingly modern stanzas.

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew

The person who was struck most painfully by this disgraceful and cryingly stupid adventure was Mrs. van Koopman.

From Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

And to any one who has been reading fiction for the last twenty years, it is cryingly obvious that fashions in human nature have changed.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

In the severe and protracted struggle with the Philistines the necessity for a solid union of the tribes was cryingly manifest, and the man came forward to meet the hour.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius