Which preposition to use with sob

in Occurrences 92%

I was some half-dozen yards behind Mary, now, and my breath was sobbing in my throat.

like Occurrences 52%

The Frenchman Bertrand was sobbing like a child.

of Occurrences 44%

From the Pit, came a deep, hollow echo, like the sob of a giant.

with Occurrences 30%

The girl was sobbing with her face on the ground.

on Occurrences 21%

And then, when the man told her she was indeed too late, all strength and energy left her, and she sank sobbing on the wooden bench by the door.

for Occurrences 19%

Lanyard pillowed his head on a forearm and lay sobbing for breath.

from Occurrences 17%

She heard sounds of pitiful moans and sobbing from something crouched upon the broken steps.

at Occurrences 16%

But just as it threw itself sobbing at the door (I cannot use other words), there suddenly came something which sent the blood coursing through my veins, and my heart into my mouth.

to Occurrences 10%

"It ain't natural for him to be mild like that," she sobbed to the cook.

into Occurrences 8%

she sobbed into her handkerchief, "why didn't you take me when you took him?"

over Occurrences 7%

"I heartily despise him, and eagerly read him, nay, sob over his works in a most scandalous manner.

through Occurrences 6%

And he sobbed through grinding teeth as he felt the disintegrating, agonizing, irremediable forces at work on body, mind, and soul.

behind Occurrences 5%

Then Olympia suddenly recovered herself, sobbing behind her handkerchief.

after Occurrences 4%

Her face, as he could see it in the dim light, was one of despair, and as sob after sob broke from her, tears ran down her cheeks.

beside Occurrences 3%

He left in a fit of anger over some little thing, and now" She was dangerously near breaking down, and Oldfield could plainly hear smothered sobs beside him on the side of his chair toward which he chose not to look.

as Occurrences 3%

She was sobbing as though her heart would break: sobbing as though unconscious of another human being in the world.

without Occurrences 2%

The mother sobbed without comfort, and finally added: "Sh-she in a delicate fix now, an' 'at jail goin' to be a gloomy place fuh Cissie.

against Occurrences 2%

" "O my God, gogoI will stay; but, Jack, if you find me dead, telltellRosathatthat" He gasped and sank down sobbing against the gnarled tree that crossed the mound above Jones's head.

before Occurrences 2%

Meanwhile Gottfried had retired into his room, and, like David, wept and sobbed before the Lord, repeating, with bitterness, "Arnold!

by Occurrences 2%

Guided by the sound, he groped about and found a little child, scantily clothed, shivering and sobbing by itself in the snow.

out Occurrences 1%

Women hung sobbing out of the windows, and all the city of Thorn lamented with uncomforted tears because of the cruel condemnation of their Saint of the plague, Helena, the maiden of the Red Tower.

past Occurrences 1%

He got "six months," and his wife came sobbing past Myra.

around Occurrences 1%

" Mrs. Ford ceased, her tears were falling fast, and the children were sobbing around her.

among Occurrences 1%

Ethelyn knew this as well as anyone, and Mrs. Markham, washing her dishes below stairs, and occasionally wiping her eyes with the corner of the check apron as she thought how all her trouble had been thrown away upon a proud, ungrateful girl, could not think less of Ethie than Ethie thought of herself, upstairs sobbing among the pillows.

towards Occurrences 1%

And in a whispered tone aside: "Laugh, damn it!" Her laughter rang true enough, but it quavered perilously close to a sob towards the close.

Which preposition to use with  sob