1816 J. Wilson City of Plague in (1825) I. 197 Sob-broken words of prayer!
1857 Ld. Dufferin (ed. 3) 93 Wilson's sob-like snores shook..the canvas walls.
1861 D. G. Rossetti tr. Dante Vita Nuova in ii. 269 A voice so sob-broken, So feeble with the agony of tears.
1895 Aug. 571/2 It was..occasionally making a sob-like sound.