sobs

A few tears and sobs from the Right are to be expected.

The Volokh Conspiracy » 13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform 2010

A few tears and sobs from the Right are to be expected.

The Volokh Conspiracy » 13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform 2010

Never tell anyone that you don't have money no matter how much Phek Chin sobs to you that she hasn't sold a single book all day.

Bookshop Snakes and Ladders Sharon Bakar 2005

He waited until her heart should break and overflow in sobs, until she should realize all the horrors of desertion – until she should have exhausted all her strength in heart-rending emotion; and then, when he saw her at his feet, fainting, utterly worn out, awaiting death at a word from him, he seized her in his arms with convulsive passion and strained her to his heart.

Indiana 1900

The monk, who heard her sobs from a distance, suspected her conversion, and was afraid he should not again enjoy the same pleasure.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

Then came sobs from the sisters, and many of the gentlemen, ashamed of their emotion, hastily quitted the room.

Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

The voice was broken and lost in sobs; the chords of the lute were wildly struck: and in a few moments silence ensued.

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story 1789

This comes of our living here as we do, to be at every one's beck and bend, like servants and slaves! and the angry tears burst at last from Bridget's eyes, and quenched their hot light; her voice broke down in sobs; and with a strange but graceful gesture she swung her hand back, and pointed without turning to the desecrated lodge where she thought it a degradation to dwell; but which certainly looked as little like the abode of a servant on the estate, as it well could.

Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

She resisted for a moment and then collapsed in sobs.

The Hole in the Wall « A Fly in Amber 2010

Her sobs were a toxic mix of guilt, anger, humiliation, regret and disbelief.

I.O.U. Elle 2011