she said, choking over these sobs which hurt her more at the moment than he had hurt her.

She conquered one of the sobs.

On asking his sister-in-law what had happened, the poor girl told him with many sobs that a man had broken into the hut, and awakened her by seizing her throat, but had been scared away by her screams.

Lakshminarain obeyed, and his statement, interrupted by many sobs, was duly recorded.

Her little frame was convulsed with sobs, and she refused to be comforted.

"My mother ain't been to see me," whined Looney, with unrestrained sobs; "and Clem says 'e's wrote to tell 'er she'd best not come no more, 'cos I'm so bad.

" Tears choked his utterance, and the old man wept, His meagre frame convulsed with mighty sobs, Pathetic tokens of a broken heart.

That was his last hope; now it was gone; and the huge Bear sank down in the cage with his nose in his paws and sobbedlong, heavy sobs, animal sounds indeed, but telling just as truly as in man of the broken spiritthe hope and the life gone out.

Behind him he heard the murmur of voices, the sobs of a woman in pain, and the rattle of a doorknob.

" The woman checked her sobs and went willingly.

The next second he was shaking with a storm of sobs.

"Oh, I have been wronged most fearfully," she whispered between her sobs.

He tried to write about Uncle Tom, but he could not; tears blinded him, and sobs choked him.

With sobs and tears and shouts they pressed round him, thanking and blessing him.

And sobbingly she told the storyher face buried too much of the time for her to see her brother's face, too shaken by her own sobs to mark how strange was his breathing.

He was holding her close; and as her sobs grew more violent he kissed her hair, murmured loving things.

" Amid more sobs Katie got that all the Jones family were heartless, that life was cruel, but that she was willing to make any sacrifice for her child's good.

Clara's sobs ceased instantly.

"And Wayne kept saying," Ann went on, sobs back of her words, "that all human beings are entitled to work out their lives in their own way.

Those things fought within her as she watched Ann shaken with the sobs she was trying to repress.

What she could have borne no longer was drowning the world's sobs in the world's hollow laughter.

Next, she starts in on the neighbors; tells us all their private cares, While we have the fun er knowin' how she talks of our affairs; Says, with sobs, that Christmas comin' makes her feel so bad, for, oh!

He knows, where the sea-breeze sobs and sings, And the sand-hills meet the brine, The clamorous crows, with their whirring wings, Tell of their treasure that sways and swings In the top of the tasselled pine.

I'll tell you how it was.' She narrated the events of the afternoon, amid sobs and ejaculations from her mother and Betsy.

These several days thou hast refused this benefaction with floods of tears, and sobs and screams.