Sobbing

Examples

• Mrs. Snagsby sobbing loudly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A wild, long laugh rang through the deserted room, and ended in a hysteric sob; she threw herself on the floor, in convulsive sobbing and struggles. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• As she went, the wind rose sobbing; the rain poured wild and cold; the whole night seemed to feel her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She sat sobbing and murmuring behind it, that, if I was uneasy, why had I ever been married? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She had set her mind on the Major more than on any of the others, she owned, sobbing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As the door closed, little Em'ly looked at us three in a hurried manner and then hid her face in her hands, and fell to sobbing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• All this time Fanny had been sobbing and crying, and still continued to do so. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Louisa saw that she was sobbing; and going to her, kissed her, took her hand, and sat down beside her. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The next he had thrown himself on his knees beside the table, and burying his face in his hands, he had burst into a storm of passionate sobbing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She had a little room in the garret, where the maids heard her walking and sobbing at night; but it was with rage, and not with grief. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The younger and more thoughtless ones, for the time completely overcome, were sobbing, with their heads bowed upon their knees. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Then she raised it to her lips, and crushing it there buried her face in the soft ferns, sobbing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Her indignation failed her, and she broke off sobbing. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Do not speak thus, pray,' returned the young lady, sobbing. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Not a man was left behind but the clerk--the poor old clerk standing on the flat tombstone sobbing and wailing over the church. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Clinging to him she fell into hysterical sobbings and cries, and for the next hour he did nothing but soothe and tend her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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