The hot tears came, and for a long time she lay sobbing into the fat pillow which had seen so many floods of this kind that it had grown very much accustomed to it.
A few passed her on the trail, but she did not see them--not even Carrie, sobbing aloud as she stumbled along beside her mother.
I found her just now sobbing and moaning over Eddie, wishing they were both dead, and all the rest of it.
Lord Hartledon, sitting down, had clasped his boy in his arms, and was sobbing over him; emotion such as man rarely betrays.
She sent the children to the nursery; and he found her alone in her chamber sobbing bitterly.
As though a prevision had been upon her of the future, she remained passively in his arms sobbing hysterically, and suffering his kisses; not drawing away from him in maiden modesty, as was her wont.
She was looking very ill; was low-spirited and hysterical; and when she caught sight of him she forgot her anger, and fell sobbing into his arms.
Sobbing and frantic, the lad fluttered his handkerchief.
There was a flash in the darkness, a smother of white in the room, and outside a suddensobbing cry.
Ray stood motionless for a moment, thunder-struck as I was, while the sobbing girl clung to his knees.
Sobbing out great incoherent cries, she dropped at Ray's feet, wrapped her arms about his knees and clung to him, while her slender body was wracked withsobbing cries.
Ragueneau had been the spiritual guide of the murdered tribe for twenty years; and he was now sobbing like a child.
Sobbing with horror, Hearne begged the Indians to put their victim out of pain.
The Indians broke into songs of delight, and Sacajawea, dashing through the crowd, threw her arms round an Indian woman, sobbing and laughing and exhibiting all the hysterical delight of a demented creature.
A moment ago he was sobbing like a child, and now he is singing like a lark; but he is an excellent creature, and when I win my Brazilian lawsuit, or gain the chief prize in the lottery, Lenz shall be paid a handsome marriage portion.
Never before had the bridegroom been heard sobbing audibly; no man had ever done such a thing till now.
Among the hot, tense crowd that strained over the topmost railings, was heard the sobbing of a little child--but only one soul heard it, and the child would have been a woman then if she had lived.
There was an afternoon in the practice-room when he gave way to despair, sobbing across the piano like a mourner across a grave; but that was after a late night when his nerves were out of order.
She held the boy close to her, and listened while he poured forth his story in sobbing indistinctness.
She turned to leave the room, but was arrested by a burst of sobbing and a piteous appeal.
I was near enough to see all his pretty--things," Alma paused in her sobbing to relate.
All felt truly sorry for little Alma, but it was the wise and understanding Janet Beckwith who gathered the sobbing girl into her arms and soothed the sighs, tears, and protestations.
She threw herself upon the sofa, burying her face in her hands, sobbing like a child with relief and exhaustion.
There is a sound of sobbing from within, and, never stopping to knock, Paul Abbot throws off his cloak and enters.
It did seem pitiful, the two mute, dumb beasts standing, trembling with apprehension, and only the sobbing voice and puny arm of a mere child between them and a dreadful fate.
Sobbing hysterically, Minnie wiped the blood from my back with her handkerchief, and refused to mount again.
Other soldiers spring up as they realize the news, and stamp hither and thither, impotent with rage, grief, and despair, many in their physical weakness sobbing like children.
He was always sent for at once when such a thing occurred and he always found, when he arrived, a white shaken boy lying on his bed, sulky and still so hysterical that he was ready to break into fresh sobbing at the least word.
As she listened to the sobbing screams she did not wonder that people were so frightened that they gave him his own way in everything rather than hear them.
She had been sobbing thus for some twenty-four hours.
But, sobbing as she was, and desperate, she felt the light hand of Anne Oglesby now swiftly patting her shoulder for silence.
The hammer resounded through the house; we heard the grand-mother sobbing in the smaller room and Marie-Rose trying to console her.
She was in his arms, sobbing out all the despair and horror of those three days.
Even Cecile shuddered, crossing herself as she stood on the sandy shore, listening to the eerie sobbing of wind and waves, and watched how dying moonbeams shed ghostly patches of light in dark, deserted corners.
Here and there a woman had stolen near to the little group, sobbing out a petition for pardon; but most of them had gone silently, with doubt and fear in their hearts.
He was sobbing because he knew he had most excellent cause for inarticulable sorrow.
He found Mrs. Grant sobbing violently, and for a while quite unable to command her voice.
The child was sobbing convulsively, so that Clemence became frightened for him.
She asked, after gazing in silence at Joanna, who wassobbing gently-- "Who is she?
