He took her hand and raised it to his lips with something like a sob.
She succeeded in that, and the emotion only passed over her face like the spirit of a sob; but it added to Rosamond's impression that Mrs.
But she needed time to gather up her strength; she needed to sob out her farewell to all the gladness and pride of her life.
" said Dorothea, with a dangerous tendency to sob.
Still "I do wish it" came at the end of those wise reflections as naturally as a sob after holding the breath.
He was bowing and quitting her, when an impulse which if she had been alone would have turned into a prayer, made her say with a sob in her voice— "Oh, you are a wise man, are you not?
" said Mary, her eyes filling with tears, and a little sob rising which she tried to repress.
" said Dorothea, with a quick sob.
" Dorothea, in a most unaccountable, darkly feminine manner, ended with a slight sob and eyes full of tears.
"When we were coming home from Lausanne my uncle took us to hear the great organ at Freiberg, and it made me sob.
" "I beg your pardon, if I have said anything to hurt you, Dodo," said Celia, with a slight sob.
And," she added, after hesitating a little, with a rising sob of mortification, "necklaces are quite usual now; and Madame Poincon, who was stricter in some things even than you are, used to wear ornaments.
It was dark, for the curtains had been drawn over the great window, and he pulled them quickly back; but a sob broke from him as with a rapid glance he took in the place where he had been so happy.
Poor Mole stood alone in the road, his heart torn asunder, and a big sob gathering, gathering, somewhere low down inside him, to leap up to the surface presently, he knew, in passionate escape.
With a sob she hastily discarded her garments, put on the skimpy nightgown and sprang into bed where she burrowed face downward into the pillow and pulled the clothes over her head.
Cousin Stickles had begun to sob.
" And she choked back a little sob.
Distract them from the realities of a world gone mad so that they can laugh with their breath rather than sob with their tears.
" The startled boy started to sob and sob, and he couldn't stop crying.
She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.
