"Sobbing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was relieving myself of this little declamation the young Indian was standing at my side sobbing as if he ...
— The Twin Hells • John N. Reynolds
... and made musical by innumerable birds. But all colour was lost in the soft and odorous darkness of the late September night, and all sounds were hushed in the deep charm of its silence, save the plashing of the water, like a voice half-sobbing and half-laughing under the shadows. High above the trees a dim glow of light shone through the curtained arches of the upper chamber, where the master of the house was holding council with ...
— The Blue Flower, and Others • Henry van Dyke
... home, Ella hastened upstairs to her own room, where, if the truth must be told, she employed the half-hour before dinner in unintermittent sobbing, into which temper largely entered. 'He has spoilt it all for me! How could he—oh, how could he?' ran the burden of her moan. At the dinner-table, though pale and silent, she ...
— The Talking Horse - And Other Tales • F. Anstey
... reference to her own healing, or the burden under which she was being crushed to death, she burst into such a prayer for a poor orphan boy, of whom she had just heard that day, as we have never heard surpassed for sympathy and love, imploring God to help him and save him, and sobbing in spasmodic agony of love many times during her prayer, and then she ceased without even referring to her own need. We were deeply touched by the spectacle of love, and we thought how the Father's heart must be ...
— Days of Heaven Upon Earth • Rev. A. B. Simpson
... cried loudly. Then, with a sudden fit of sobbing, she flung open the gate and ran at the top of her ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington
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