I steered with one hand and held the phone to my ear with the other, racked by the sounds of my mother's painful sobs.

Someone was crying somewhere in the gray spaces, crying miserably, in long painful sobs.

She snatched up the rest of them, her body racked by painful little sobs, and hurried them back into her desk.

His painful little sobs ceased.

But he began to cry now, in painful, lurching sobs, and for the first time since he was a small boy, Shadow cried himself to sleep.

He did not get up, but remained crouched on the ground, sweating and shivering, his breath coming in painful sobs.

Dropping his head an his arm, he wept-his body shaking with painful sobs.

She was huddled on the floor, beating her open palms in a meaningless rhythm on her bent knees and crying with painful dry sobs.

Her voice broke, the flow of words interrupted by painful sobs.

My head dropped to her shoulder, my eyes squeezed shut and painful sobs racked my frame.