I don't like the notion of reading all these sobby stories, that this team isn't doing good because such-and-such a star is injured. |
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Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby. |
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Some repetitious dilemma won't go away whether we choose to be naive, moral, sophisticated, class-analytic, weepy, sobby, laughing or whatever. |
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We kind of get sobby about it, because we both wish it would stop, but it's not really that big of a deal. |
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It began, 'Where is my wandering boy to-night?' and by the time she was through I was feeling so mushy and sobby that I put a five instead of a one into the plate by mistake. |
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The woman served him sullenly, placing some sobby biscuits and a piece of cold bacon on his plate, and pouring out a glass of buttermilk with a vicious thrust of the pitcher. |
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