Verb (used with object) : to sob oneself to sleep. From Dictionary.com.
"I got out of the bathtub," she sobbingly testifies. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Courtroom Junkies] Reference
Minister with great tenderness, she said to him sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [MEXICAN MAGAZINE HAS EXCLUSIVE WITH FIDEL] Reference
"Oh, Lord, give me back those babies!" she cried sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
Louise was white with exhaustion: her breath came sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Little Mabel clung desperately to her mother, and sobbingly told her. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
Her arms went round his neck, and she sobbingly implored his pardon. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
On they flew; his body hammered the saddle; his breath came sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
Dropping his head into his arms on the table, he broke out sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
And Nancy told him sobbingly that she "fort she was late, an 'now she wasn't.". From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
For answer, through the din of the elements, a voice called brokenly, sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
The words came sobbingly from Nan's white lips, and Rooke turned to her instantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
"I-- ach, Miss Lee," the child blurted out half-sobbingly, "Mary, she tattled on me.". From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
"We will not forget Felipe," the two women had sobbingly protested to each other at parting. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother of Felipe] Reference
"I've been afraid so much," she went on sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Visioning] Reference
Tessie stood a moment, breathing painfully, sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
Her heart next mine was beating when sobbingly she said. From Wordnik.com. [California Joe] Reference
"I don't want any dinner, Marilla," said Anne, sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
Far off he paused, fell down and sobbingly began to pray. From Wordnik.com. [Mystics and Saints of Islam] Reference
And Nancy turned sobbingly, and went back to her kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Pollyanna] Reference
Joanne's breath broke sobbingly as she gave Aldous the glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Woman] Reference
"Oh, grandfather, don't let him go!" she sobbingly interrupted. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontiersmen] Reference
Her voice broke sobbingly, and Sir Francis Vesey grew desperate. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference
A paroxysm of coughing shook him; he spoke through it sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [Penrod and Sam] Reference
Tess scarcely heard the words they were so low, so sobbingly spoken. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Storm Country] Reference
Standing there she threw up her clenched hands and prayed sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [St. Elmo] Reference
She was trembling like an aspen-leaf, and her breath came sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
Standing there, she threw up her clenched hands and prayed sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [St. Elmo. A Novel.] Reference
Panting sobbingly, he ducked under the amorous vampire's arm and fled on. From Wordnik.com. [The Flirt] Reference
"Don't go any farther, Aunt Maria," Cynthia called, sobbingly, back to her. From Wordnik.com. [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference
"And to make the baby well, papa," she added sobbingly, as he knelt with her. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie's Kith and Kin] Reference
His breath came slow and sobbingly; but, aside from that, not a muscle moved. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference
His same sobbingly honest and reflective songs with all of the same onstage heart. From Wordnik.com. [journal-news.com - News] Reference
He seemed quite like a little boy when he put out his hand to hers and spoke sobbingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
"Nothing can hurt you, nothing -- nothing --" he cried almost sobbingly in his happiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Snare] Reference
"I would have worked," said the girl from behind her hands, sobbingly, but without tears. From Wordnik.com. [In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim] Reference
I've walked past a crime scene where a girl was sobbingly telling her mugging tale to cops. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
"May I take her, papa?" she asked sobbingly, and with an entreating look up into his face. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie's Kith and Kin] Reference
Toll the requiem of the sinner, sinking swiftly, sobbingly into the depths of time's ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Violets and Other Tales] Reference
Or Captain Hammer sobbingly singing his woes to his therapist (or at least someone maternal)?. From Wordnik.com. [Lockergnome] Reference
Finally she wreathed her arms round Lucy, and kissed her so tenderly, warmly and sobbingly, that. From Wordnik.com. [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference
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