Soon her garments lay torn upon the sward, her hair lost its scorching might, and before dawn broke the chaste maiden knelt trembling and red with shame upon the earth, entreating forbearance and mercy with sobs and tears.
The thoughts of his mamma made the forlorn one cry, and call upon her name, but no one heard his sobs or saw his tears, and with it came a recollection of the sorrows of yesterday, and he suddenly thought "Where is Marten?
The mother of Pearl was shown the clothes and one by one she positively identified them between her sobs and cries of "My Pearl, my Pearl.
The piano was rolled from his parlor to the door of his chamber, while, with sobs in her voice, and tears streaming down her cheeks, his gifted countrywoman sang.
Una rushed away into the house, her sobsand half-choked screams echoing as she went.
Then a sound of sobs broke on the scene, and there stood Miss Haredale, and Amethyst flung herself upon her, the real mother of her youth.
The piano was rolled to the door of his chamber, while with sobs in her voice and tears streaming down her cheeks his gifted countrywoman sang.
La Pommeraye turned away his head, and the sobs he could no longer restrain shook him from head to foot.
Marie, weeping bitterly, followed her, and finally old Bastienne, filling the air with sobs and lamentations, was deposited beside her mistress.
She turned away for a moment; and the rare sobs shook her slight figure.
With a fierce curse Abner bade her stop his disturbance, and again the poor mother had hands and heart full to silence the still recurring sobs of the child.
And again she hid her face, while sobs shook her from head to foot.
Her sobs grew less and less wild--she even permitted Meg to lift her up in her arms again.
But Bunty put his poor rough head down on the cushions again, and great hard sobs broke from him, sobs that he was bitterly ashamed of, but that he had absolutely no strength to restrain.
Such gurgling little sobs of fright and relief she gave, such leaps and shudders of joy and terror, as they carried her up to the house wrapped in her father's coat.
For a moment her voice broke, and sobs supplanted words.
Khojee paused in an 'Ameen' with a gasp, Khadjee let her sobs grow into a cry.
Thus amid tears and sobs I went along; when I stopped to rest, and put the cage on the ground, the bird struck up his song, and brought but too keenly to my mind the fair habitation I had left.
Her sobs and distracted looks moved our young hearts almost to tears.
Here he was interrupted by the smothered sobs of poor Douglas, or Charles, as I now must call him.
At this part of the prayer, the sobs behind the bed became so audible, that it made the old man pause in the midst of his fervent supplications; and the dying youth was heard to weep in suppressed breathings.
I saw the little working of the white throat wherein some sobs seemed stifling.
Here she stuck, and with hysterical sobsclung to the old man.
She finished her broken plea in muffledsobs in the folds of his coat.
From within there came sobs and smothered little moans that were so mingled that they could not be identified by even the mother hearts held at bay by the faith that made them obey the parson's command.
Abide with me, fast falls the even tide,'" he chanted, and then waited while my sobs died away and I let go my drowning grasp on his wrist.
She was sobbing the hard, dry sobs that any woman knows are those of despair, and which call any other woman who hears them.
And the hard, dry sobs melted as the girl put her head down upon the gate a moment and then went out through it.
It was all so tender and so beautiful that every eye in the chapel was wet with tears and sobs echoed softly through his last prayer.
The last tender note breathed itself into the air that seemed to hold it in a long caress until it died away, and sobs shook me as I held on desperately to his wrist.
But the shrieks wore themselves out at last andsobs came--awful little sobs shuddering through the tiny breast and shaking the baby body.
It was Dowie whose warm shoulder her face hidden on this time, and Dowie was choked with sobs she dared not let loose.
But the sun its face is veiling like a cloistered nun at vespers; As towards the alter candles of the night a censer swings, And the echo of tradition wakes from slumbering and whispers, Where the Capilano river sobs and sings.
The passing of the shadows, as they waft their pinions near, Has stirred a tender wind within the night-hushed atmosphere, That in its homeless wanderings sobs in an undertone An echo to my heart that sobbing calls for you alone.
Their war-canoes circled the island like a fortification, through which drifted the sobs of the imprisoned women, the mutterings of the aged men, the wail of little children.
When the prayer for the King was read, loud groans and sobs showed how deeply his people felt for him.
During the night which followed the arrival of the news, those who lodged near him could distinctly hear his sobs and his piercing cries.
By and by Jean's sobs grew less frequent, then ceased altogether.
As they entered the orchard Larry's heartbreakingsobs indicated the scene of the accident, and in another instant Jean had fallen on her knees beside her little sister.
She had buried her face in her hands, to hide the flushing of her cheeks, and sat motionless, altogether crushed beneath the shameful revelation; convulsive sobs and tremblings occasionally agitating her frame.
The convulsive movement of her shoulders and stifled sobsdenoted the violence of her emotion.
Nina made a quick movement towards her father and stood looking at the grey head, on the broad shoulders shaken convulsively by the violence of feelings that found relief at last in sobs and tears.
Only the fire glimmered like a star forgotten in this annihilation of all visible things, and nothing was heard after Dain ceased speaking but the sobs of Nina, whom he held in his arms, kneeling beside the fire.
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