The congregation be- came more and more moved, as the pathetic tale went on, till at last the whole company broke down and joined the weeping mourners in a chorus of anguished
sobs, the preacher himself giving way to his feelings, and crying in the pulpit.
The spiritual face, the long locks of hair cut off and lying by her, her father's averted face, and Marie's sobs, struck at once upon the feelings of a sensitive and impressible race; and, as they came in, they looked one on another, sighed, and shook their heads.
Here the child was interrupted by bursts of groans, sobs, and lamentations, which broke from all present, and in which her slender voice was lost entirely.
It is impossible to describe the scene, as, with tears and sobs, they gathered round the little creature, and took from her hands what seemed to them a last mark of her love.
Earth was past,--and earthly pain; but so solemn, so mysterious, was the triumphant brightness of that face, that it checked even the sobs of sorrow.
"Oh, sir, sir!" she said, but
sobs choked her utterance.
Maggie's
sobs began to subside, and she put out her mouth for the cake and bit a piece; and then Tom bit a piece, just for company, and they ate together and rubbed each other's cheeks and brows and noses together, while they ate, with a humiliating resemblance to two friendly ponies.
In that hour she repeated what the merciful eyes of solitude have looked on for ages in the spiritual struggles of man-- she besought hardness and coldness and aching weariness to bring her relief from the mysterious incorporeal might of her anguish: she lay on the bare floor and let the night grow cold around her; while her grand woman's frame was shaken by sobs as if she had been a despairing child.
But she lost energy at last even for her loud-whispered cries and moans: she subsided into helpless sobs, and on the cold floor she sobbed herself to sleep.
"DAD?" "*sobs*" "What do you mean 'asterisk
sobs asterisk'?" "No, Daughter, I didn't say that, I just mean that I'm sobbing."
They need to formulate a suitable
sob story to give themselves any chance
SOB STORY THE SPACE ON THE MILE of winning.
DaBoii, Yhung T.O., Slimmy B, and Lul G, the four members of Vallejo rap group
SOB X RBE, are in this part of California, just outside the seaside college town of Santa Cruz, as part of a series of headlining West Coast dates, a few stops before they head out on a big North American tour opening up for Post Malone and 21 Savage.