They were speedily lost to view, but when she had almost overtaken them she heard, in the trees beyond, Minnie Smellie's voice lifted high in song, and the sound of a child's sobbing.
' He sank down in the chair, and, laying his head on the desk, burst into sobbing tears.
The noise, the whispering, the occasional sobbing increased.
As she went, the wind rose sobbing; the rain poured wild and cold; the whole night seemed to feel her.
" she cried in a somewhat sobbing voice, half hysterical.
Epidemic diseases, I believed, were often heralded by a gasping, sobbing, tormented, long-lamenting east wind.
" She broke into passionate sobbing as she spoke.
Yet I have told you how, on the first night here, I heard her sobbing bitterly, and since then I have more than once observed traces of tears upon her face.
"Did you, for example, happen to hear someone, a woman I think, sobbing in the night?
We saw her turn in at her own gate and go sobbing up her lane with no relenting.
And when there's a storm and the waves are sobbing and moaning I hear her lamenting among them.
My own sweet little mistress sprang on my neck sobbing, "Ellen, Ellen!
"This is nothing," cried she: "I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
or find us by ourselves, seeking entertainment in yelling, and sobbing, and rolling on the ground, divided by the whole room?
So the little martyr spent her first hour of trial in sobbing, the second in singing, for just as her mother and Mrs.
" As Maggie knelt by the bed sobbing, with that letter pressed under her, her feelings again and again gathered themselves in a whispered cry, always in the same words,— "O God, is there any happiness in love that could make me forget their pain?
Somehow, when she sat at the window with her book, her eyes would fix themselves blankly on the outdoor sunshine; then they would fill with tears, and sometimes, if her mother was not in the room, the studies would all end in sobbing.
" Maggie went on, half sobbing as she turned over the few books, "I thought we should never part with that while we lived; everything is going away from us; the end of our lives will have nothing in it like the beginning!
" Mrs Tulliver burst out crying afresh, and she sobbed with her handkerchief at her eyes a few moments, but then removing it, she said in a deprecating way, still half sobbing, as if she were called upon to speak before she could command her voice,— "And I did say to him times and times, 'Whativer you do, don't go to law,' and what more could I do?
In another minute she was sobbing with joy because Tom opened his eyes.