Which preposition to use with sob
I was some half-dozen yards behind Mary, now, and my breath was sobbing in my throat.
The Frenchman Bertrand was sobbing like a child.
From the Pit, came a deep, hollow echo, like the sob of a giant.
The girl was sobbing with her face on the ground.
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.
Lanyard pillowed his head on a forearm and lay sobbing for breath.
She heard sounds of pitiful moans and sobbing from something crouched upon the broken steps.
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.
"It ain't natural for him to be mild like that," she sobbed to the cook.
she sobbed into her handkerchief, "why didn't you take me when you took him?"
"I heartily despise him, and eagerly read him, nay, sob over his works in a most scandalous manner.
And he sobbed through grinding teeth as he felt the disintegrating, agonizing, irremediable forces at work on body, mind, and soul.
Then Olympia suddenly recovered herself, sobbing behind her handkerchief.
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.
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.
She was sobbing as though her heart would break: sobbing as though unconscious of another human being in the world.
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.
" "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.
Meanwhile Gottfried had retired into his room, and, like David, wept and sobbed before the Lord, repeating, with bitterness, "Arnold!
Guided by the sound, he groped about and found a little child, scantily clothed, shivering and sobbing by itself in the snow.
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.
He got "six months," and his wife came sobbing past Myra.
" Mrs. Ford ceased, her tears were falling fast, and the children were sobbing around her.
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.
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.