113 collocations for sobs

And then, from all points of the compass, the echoes, in varying cadence, repeated that tremendous, awe-inspiring soundthe last sobbing cry of a Titan.

"Lord," quoth he in sobbing breaths, "a good day for theethislord Dukea good day for Pentavalona joyous dayblessed day for me You'll mind they slew mother and father and sister, lordbrother and wife and child?

The deed's accursedaccursedthe child will wake, And call for Gelert with his merry voice; And when the dog no more comes stalking nigh, With great mild head to meet the outstretch'd hands, The child will sob his heart out for his friend; For, Sir, his nature is right full of love, And generous affections, never slack To let his soul have space and mastery

And so he was, and then, when she had been examined by the chief of the police and sobbed out her story all over again, from the shelter of Paul's broad arms, she felt safe at last.

And as Joan's arms hugged Kazan's great shaggy head up to her he heard the whining gasping joy of the beast and the sobbing whispering voice of the girl, and with tensely gripped hands he faced the Sun Rock.

As the train pulled out he ran back to the observation car to wave a last farewell, and saw her clinging to the iron fence, sobbing wretchedly; a desolate, weak little girl-wife mastered by a thousand fears.

" He almost sobbed the words this time.

Instead of thatinstead of coldness and haughty independencethey saw her, they heard her, suddenly give a shuddering, sobbing sigh, and then, dropping her face into her hands, break down utterly in a paroxysm of tears,not tears of anger, of violence of any kind, but tears that, like the shuddering, sobbing sigh, seemed to come from a sore heart after long repression.

The design of the parable was to illustrate on the one hand, the joy of God, as he beholds afar off, the returning sinner "seeking an injured father's face" who runs to clasp and bless him with unchiding welcome; and on the other, the contrition of the penitent, turning homeward with tears from his wanderings, his stricken spirit breaking with its ill-desert he sobs aloud.

The design of the parable was to illustrate on the one hand, the joy of God, as he beholds afar off, the returning sinner "seeking an injured father's face" who runs to clasp and bless him with an unchiding welcome; and on the other, the contrition of the penitent, turning homeward with tears, from his wanderings, his stricken spirit breaking with its ill-desert, he sobs aloud, "The lowest place, the lowest place, I can abide no other."

And then I tried to lift her; but she was kissing my feet, kissing my dress, sobbing out her life on my hands.

"Alas!" cried the friar, wringing his hands, "what news is this?" "O good friar," sobbed the woman, "my lord's hand hath been so heavy upon us of lateso heavy: and there came messengers from Thrasfordham in Bourne bidding us thither with fair promises:and my father, being head of our village, hearkened to them and we made ready to cross into Bourne.

I was to help this weeping, sobbing thing, which was already to me as distinct a personality as anything I knew; or what should I say to Roland?

Can't you do that?' 'I'm a deserter,' sobbed the boy; 'my Captain won't have me back.

In a short time the little hall and door-yard were crowded with sobbing men and women.

" "But he said a swear word,yes he, did," sobbed the child, never doubting that a boy who could swear was capable of murder, though he had neither hands nor feet.

Then she relaxed at his feet, breathing in sobbing gasps.

Don't make that sobbing noise; people'll be coming in.

O be ye therefore comforted, my children: though each must die, yet to the pure in heart death is none so hard" Thus spake Friar Martin, shivering in his bonds, what time the crowd rocked and swayed, sobbing aloud and groaning; whereat Sir Gui's pikemen made lusty play with their spear-shafts.

He spoke, quickly and decidedly, and the roaring protest died down to a snarling, sobbing sound like the crying of a wounded animal.

This was no other than Henney Hislop herself, who, having been alarmed at the long absence of her "mother," as she called her, and of course believed her to be, was so delighted to find her, that she sobbed out her joy in such an artless way, that even the writer owned it was interesting to behold.

Her bosom sobbing wails a mighty moan, "Alas!

To an accompanying pleading, sobbing note of flutes the high priest laid an offering of fruit, milk, wine and honey in the midst of the heaped-up garlands (for Apollo was the god of all fertility as well as of healing and war and flocks and oracles).

The sounds puzzled us, but at last we gripped her hands, and the Professor and Barbara, hysterical with joy, sobbed their thanks into the gloom.

When she had finished, she read it to her two sons, ten and twelve, who burst out sobbing, "Oh! mamma, slavery is the most cursed thing in the world.

113 collocations for  sobs