And forthwith she began to relate that they had first of all refused to bathe her, and that she had been obliged to insist and beg and sob in order to prevail upon them to do so, after receiving Father Fourcade's express permission.
Et elle racontait qu’on ne voulait d’abord pas la baigner, qu’elle avait dû insister, supplier, sangloter, pour qu’on se décidât à le faire, sur une permission formelle du père Fourcade.
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Then as La Pierina, thunderstruck at thus being pitied and succoured, began to sob yet more loudly so as to create quite a stir in the room, Celia raised her and held her up with both arms, for fear lest she should fall again.
Puis, comme la Pierina, saisie d’être ainsi plainte et secourue, sanglotait plus fort, au point de faire scandale, Celia la releva, la soutint entre ses deux bras, de crainte qu’elle ne tombât par terre.
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All her strength, all her courage was gone, and she began to sob, stammering indistinctly: "To think of it! a big fellow of eighteen falling on one like that without a word of warning!
Elle se remit à sangloter, sans force, sans courage, ne bégayant plus que des paroles noyées de larmes. « Un grand garçon de dix-huit ans qui vous arrive comme ça, sans crier gare !...
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She generally pretended to sob, as soon as she caught sight of the bite, so as to make it more insufferable to Laurent.
D'ordinaire, elle feignait de sangloter, dès qu'elle voyait la morsure, afin de la rendre plus insupportable à Laurent.
Then we sit and sob, and long for the gas-lit streets, and the sound of human voices, and the answering throb of human life.
Nous soupirons alors, nostalgiques des becs de gaz, du brouhaha des voix humaines et de l’écho rassurant de tous ces cœurs qui battent.
Jerome, Jerome Klapka / Three Men in a BoatJerome, Jerome Klapka / Trois hommes dans le bateau
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And this recollection of Maurice alone drew her for a moment from her callousness, choked her with a rising sob, as if in that direction lay her madness, the vainly sought explanation of the crime.
Et ce souvenir de Maurice, seul, la tira un instant de sa sécheresse, l’étrangla d’un commencement de larmes, comme si sa démence était là, l’explication du crime qu’elle cherchait en vain.
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Morange's lugubrious voice, never broken by a sob, never rising to violence, but sounding like a distant, monotonous, mournful knell, rent Mathieu's heart.
Cette voix sans larmes, sans violence, pareille à un glas lointain, déchirait Mathieu.
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All at once, however, he made up his mind, shaken the while as by a big sob.
Puis, il se décida, un tressaillement le traversa comme d’un grand sanglot.
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And he began to weep and sob out in low tones that winter was a disease of the earth, and that he should die with the earth, unless the springtide healed them both.
Et il se mit à pleurer à voix plus basse, disant que l'hiver était une maladie de la terre, qu'il allait mourir en même temps que la terre, si le printemps ne les guérissait tous deux.
Zola, Emile / Abbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile / La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
O Holy Father! I am but an ambassador, the messenger of those who suffer and who sob, the humble delegate of the humble ones who die of want beneath the hateful harshness, the frightful injustice of our present-day social system!
Oh ! Saint-Père, je ne suis plus que leur ambassadeur, l’envoyé de ceux qui souffrent et qui sanglotent l’humble délégué des humbles qui meurent de misère, sous l’exécrable dureté, l’effroyable injustice sociale.
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sob
verb
Basic forms
Past
sobbed
Imperative
sob
Present Participle (Participle I)
sobbing
Past Participle (Participle II)
sobbed
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I sob
we sob
you sob
you sob
he/she/it sobs
they sob
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am sobbing
we are sobbing
you are sobbing
you are sobbing
he/she/it is sobbing
they are sobbing
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have sobbed
we have sobbed
you have sobbed
you have sobbed
he/she/it has sobbed
they have sobbed
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been sobbing
we have been sobbing
you have been sobbing
you have been sobbing
he/she/it has been sobbing
they have been sobbing
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I sobbed
we sobbed
you sobbed
you sobbed
he/she/it sobbed
they sobbed
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was sobbing
we were sobbing
you were sobbing
you were sobbing
he/she/it was sobbing
they were sobbing
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had sobbed
we had sobbed
you had sobbed
you had sobbed
he/she/it had sobbed
they had sobbed
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been sobbing
we had been sobbing
you had been sobbing
you had been sobbing
he/she/it had been sobbing
they had been sobbing
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will sob
we shall/will sob
you will sob
you will sob
he/she/it will sob
they will sob
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be sobbing
we shall/will be sobbing
you will be sobbing
you will be sobbing
he/she/it will be sobbing
they will be sobbing
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have sobbed
we shall/will have sobbed
you will have sobbed
you will have sobbed
he/she/it will have sobbed
they will have sobbed
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been sobbing
we shall/will have been sobbing
you will have been sobbing
you will have been sobbing
he/she/it will have been sobbing
they will have been sobbing
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would sob
we should/would sob
you would sob
you would sob
he/she/it would sob
they would sob
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be sobbing
we should/would be sobbing
you would be sobbing
you would be sobbing
he/she/it would be sobbing
they would be sobbing
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have sobbed
we should/would have sobbed
you would have sobbed
you would have sobbed
he/she/it would have sobbed
they would have sobbed
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice