At Fred's last words she felt an instantaneous pang, something like what a mother feels at the imagined sobs or cries of her naughty truant child, which may lose itself and get harm.
Then Brighteyes was going to give up in despair, and she thought she would never, never get out, and she wished she had never eaten the molasses, when, all of a sudden, she heard some one else coming along, and between her sobs she cried out: "Oh, please, whoever you are, don't run away!
" Toad, who was on the sofa by this time, with his legs up, rolled over on his face, shaken by sobs of contrition.
" (Here his sobs choked him.
Through the closed door they could just hear the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice, rising and falling in waves of oratory; and presently they noticed that the sermon began to be punctuated at intervals by long-drawn sobs, evidently proceeding from the bosom of Toad, who was a soft-hearted and affectionate fellow, very easily converted—for the time being—to any point of view.
" Recollection brought fresh waves of sorrow, and sobs again took full charge of him, preventing further speech.
But that night, when Marilla went to bed, acutely and miserably conscious that the little gable room at the end of the hall was untenanted by any vivid young life and unstirred by any soft breathing, she buried her face in her pillow, and wept for her girl in a passion of sobs that appalled her when she grew calm enough to reflect how very wicked it must be to take on so about a sinful fellow creature.
" No answer from Anne save more tears and stormier sobs!
Miss Chester's sobs grew easier.
There was another communing silence, broken at intervals by muffled sobs, and then the minister spread his hands abroad and prayed.
Then the sobs came thick and fast.
" No reply—but sobs.
Peter continued to cry, and soon his sobs woke Jane.
"Help me," Kaia says between sobs as her hands are restrained with a zip tie.
She paused to muffle her sobs.
: "I'm such a fool," Elaine sobs.
Great sobs racked his body.
"Because--" he said, gasping and hitching between sobs, "because I don't want them to see me.
His right hand, uncurled and limp, bounced to the rhythm of his father's sobs.
She paused to muffle her sobs.