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Meanings of smothered sobs in English

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Usage of smothered sobs in English
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Tears rose to many eyes, and smothered sobs betrayed intense emotion.
Fran
2
Then the bed shook with her smothered sobs.
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
3
After a long silence, broken only by Mary's half- smothered sobs, the duke turned sharply upon the women:-
Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy
4
Her smothered sobs were mingling with the dying sounds of the music, still audible to her fine ear.
Marcia Schuyler
5
The old chair creaked, and beneath the low ceiling, where the air was pungent with stale perfumes, smothered sobs of desire were audible.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
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There was a pause in the service, a momentary silence only broken by the smothered sobs of the novice who knelt next to Juanita.
The Velvet Glove
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Smothered sobs convulsed her frame.
Beulah
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"Oh, I don't know," moaned the unhappy girl, burying her face in the pillows, her shoulders rising and falling with her smothered sobs.
The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas; Or, Fun and Frolic in the S...
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