Muffled sobs were heard before the audience leapt to its feet in a thunderous standing ovation. |
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Huge sobs shuddered throughout her body, causing involuntary convulsions to tremble in her heart. |
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It was desperate and helpless and came from somewhere deep inside her in huge loud sobs that racked her entire body and soul. |
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She took a deep breath and swallowed the sobs that were rising in her throat. |
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Mrs. Knoll stopped speaking, and she gave way to uncontrolled and unrestrained sobs. |
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The muffled sounds of sniffs and small sobs could barely be heard through the door. |
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Her sweet tears dribbled down my face as her sniffs turned to heartfelt sobs. |
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Suddenly her tears turned into sniffling, which grew into sobs that shook her whole body. |
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The sobs were reduced to sniffles, and in silent wonderment, they looked at each other, together at last. |
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When her sobs had turned to sniffles, she pulled back, looking up at him with frightened eyes. |
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Slowly, the sobs turned into snivels as Clarissa gained control of herself. |
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Unwilling to say too much in case the boy, fading from sobs to snuffling, was listening, Al rolled his eyes. |
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Kirby turned her face away from Paul, tears and choking sobs shaking her body violently. |
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He clutched his stomach and doubled over, as silent sobs wracked his frail body. |
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She clamped a hand over her mouth to stifle the sobs tearing their way loose. |
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Muffled sobs came from somewhere but before Darien could haul himself up and follow, they stopped. |
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Suddenly, she broke down into sobs, her hand leaving the knife handle and tears falling down her face like waterfalls. |
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Suddenly I found myself breaking down, my body heaving with sobs, and I felt Jordan's arms close around me and pull me close. |
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And he'd collapse in sobs as his broken leg and arm twitch in painful spasms from the sudden movement. |
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The hound pup he had brought with him from Kettlethorpe raised his head at the stifled sobs that shook Johnny's body. |
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Raev'n had gone into the forest, and branches could be heard splintering from within, the sound only broken by her sobs. |
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Suddenly, a burst of sobs broke to the surface, and I dropped to the floor. |
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No sobs or splutters or hiccoughs spilled from her trembling lip, although, her lip did tremble. |
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He handed her a handkerchief and she wiped her eyes and face in between her sobs. |
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He put his arms around my shoulders and I leaned on shoulders, my body heaving with sobs. |
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The vomiting soon turned into dry heaves, then coughs finally transforming into heart wrenching, soul shaking sobs. |
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There were no loud sobs, no outbursts of screams, only silent tears, streaming down the side of her face. |
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Slowly my sobs subsided and all that was left was my hiccups which sounded off every once and a while. |
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Ben could feel the trembling in his slender frame, see the convulsive hitch of his shoulders as he fought against sobs. |
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Finally the tears fall, fast and hard as the sobs wrack her slim body with their force. |
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That was the question wavering frailly on my mind as I slid down the back of the wall and broke out in uncontrollable sobs. |
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Biting back my sobs I reached for the door but was stopped by his strong grip on my wrist. |
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Her quivering sobs are more the stuff of movies than of daily serials which offer more intrigue than gut-wrenching emotion. |
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To Robert's shock Thomas dissolved into violent sobs, his body jolting and shaking. |
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I ducked into the first washroom I came across, locked myself in the first stall and clenched my eyes shut, silent sobs making my chest heave. |
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I felt Luca's hand rub in a circular motion on my back and the sobs suddenly evanesced. |
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The noise downstairs escalated quickly from whispers and murmuring voices to sobs and wails. |
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Tate's sobs and the anguished wails of relatives will not do much to change that. |
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By the time I got to the drystone wall that divides the plot from the public footpath and the beck, the sobs had changed to screams of rage. |
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The anguish that she felt came pouring out and she cried, shuddering as the sobs wracked her body. |
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Two set of feet trampled the house, and Virginia cupped a hand over her mouth, trying to silence her heavy breathing and inevitable sobs. |
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I rest my hot cheek against the car window and cry, hating both myself and the ragged sobs that split the silence in the Jetta like a knife. |
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I suppose Jin thinks I am a weeping waif, looking for a poor soul to shed her troubles on in a rain of sobs and runny noses. |
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It was ten minutes after three in the morning when her tale telling was drowned completely by tears and heart wrenching sobs. |
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Between sobs he had stirred, whisked, and vehemently scolded the kitchen maids into attending their own bowls as reverently as he did his own. |
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The sobs coming from the girl started to get louder, and Jon looked up at her and saw she had a pretty big knot on her head. |
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With stifled sobs, she unfolded the single leaf of paper from within and began to read the rigid, soldier-like writing. |
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Impressed as ever by her verve, we left her be, the sound of thousands of tiny sobs fading as we went. |
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She backed away from the group slowly, muffled sobs emerging from beneath the mass of tangly blond hair. |
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She bit the sobs back but the tears came anyway, staining her cheeks and the pillow beneath her. |
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Strained, muffled cries, sobs that pierced the air and pierced my heart, small whimpers that tore me apart, but from what? |
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Her head hung low, her arms wrapped about her body, and her shoulders heaved in tearless sobs. |
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I just lay there on my bedroom floor, my arm bleeding, shaking with tearless sobs. |
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She said not a word, and the silence was broken only by Mam'selle Pauline's continued sobs. |
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Salty water cascaded in torrents down my face and my sobs were strangled and helpless. |
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I awoke with a start, tears coursing down my cheeks, my body shaking with sobs. |
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She started to cry for the first time in ages, quietly at first and then in huge racking sobs that shook dust from the ceiling. |
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She nestled her face into his chest, muffling her sobs in his bloodstained clothing. |
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The room remained quiet with the exception of a few muffled sobs throughout the space. |
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After she broke up with Arie, she collapsed into sobs by a meadow, which was meant to be the site of their last date. |
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He buries his head in my shoulder, his own shaking with silent sobs. |
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Already her chest and shoulders heaved from holding in sobs. |
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So I tell Jill everything, in between my sobs of relief and shame. |
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If you listen carefully, you can hear the soft sobs of Mitt Romney and his consultants, crying in their chocolate milk. |
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And as the witness began to openly weep, his sobs filled the stock-still courtroom. |
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No sobs, no snuffles, just tears sliding down my pale cheeks. |
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After resisting his pull for a moment Jordan's head buried itself in his shoulder, and she willingly allowed the burden to be handed over, her body convulsing with sobs. |
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Right here in front of her I begin dry-heaving, and sobs wrack me. |
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He was puzzled for a minute before he exploded into hard sobs. |
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Kris burst into a fresh wave of sobs as she collapsed in Mike's arms. |
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Contestants, huddled on the couches of a communal room, clutched their faces in shock and some broke into sobs. |
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Loud screams and soft sobs are heard as they roll sleeplessly on the mats spread on the floor of the school that has been converted into the relief camp. |
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I stood there for a second and I heard a few muffled sobs from her. |
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The room stilled, broken only by the sound of Kristyn's ragged sobs. |
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She spoke in her native language of Wolof, through sobs, and was translated by Melching. |
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The house was quiet except for the sobs she smothered against his chest. |
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But the silence of the night gave way to strangled sobs in my throat. |
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It was all too much for my uncle's sons who were reduced to pathetic sobs. |
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He wrote an eloquent one, sitting at the computer on the far end of the living room as the family talked, gasping out sobs as he wrote that wrung my heart. |
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When I asked tremulously for an ice cream at Le Caprice and was presented instead with a sorbet, I perceived deliberate deceit and collapsed into hysterical sobs. |
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Andrea stormed out, tears and sobs could be heard from outside. |
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Mariana stood with the rest of the congregation until her grief overwhelmed her and the force of her sobs left her bent double and clinging to friends for support. |
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Her breathing was coming easier, her sobs turning into sniffles. |
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Mrs. Bauer's stumpy frame is shaken by shuddering sobs and her little girl, hanging onto her skirt, looks up with a puckered face, ready to cry with her mother. |
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On the other line, she heard the sound of sniffles and muffled sobs. |
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I rolled over, burying my face into the pillow, not hiding my sobs. |
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Sarah crumpled into a heap of sobs against the door after he left. |
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The huldre's sobs are dying down when false dawn lights the sky. |
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Despondent, she choked back sobs when she saw other women with babies. |
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Beauty pageants are supposed to be Cinderella tales, where at the grand finale the queen sobs tears of joy while the losers hug her valiantly. |
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She burst into sobs and moans, wailing like nobody's business a prompting the gathering to follow her sorrow-some lead. |
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The solemness of the occasion was broken only by the muffled sobs ofAmy's former classmates from nearby Lord Silkin School. |
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In winter, too, There is grand aeolism upon my hills, When the blast sweeps the pine-boughs, and wails forth In long-drawn sobs and shrieking semitones. |
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