The air was very still,not more than enough to make a faint sighing in the branches, which mingled with the sound of the water to which we were descending.

He used to mock, and in every possible way interrupt the poor slaves, who after the toil of the day, knelt in their lowly cabins to offer their prayers and supplications to Him whose ear is open to the sorrowful sighing of the prisoner, and who hath promised in His own time to come down and deliver.

Basilio was not naturally superstitious, especially after having carved up so many corpses and watched beside so many death-beds, but the old legends about that ghostly spot, the hour, the darkness, the melancholy sighing of the wind, and certain tales heard in his childhood, asserted their influence over his mind and made his heart beat violently.

That low deep roar, born of silence itselfthe sad sighing of the windthe tall, column-like trunks, resembling huge sentinels keeping guard over the mysteries of agesthe silent sea of foliage overhead, that seems to shut in a world of its ownall have an influence, peculiar, irresistible and sublime.

A forlorn sighing of wind in the bare boughs of a gaunt elm that stood before her window reminded her achingly of the wind drone among the tall firs.

As he pressed trigger, a light sighing eased itself from the slim barrel.

The last thing Steve remembered hearing as he rolled himself up in his blanket was the crackle of the fire, the mournful sighing of the wind through the tops of the whispering pines, and then the distant call of an owl to its mate.

Fear I HEARD a sound of crying in the lane, A passionless, low crying, And I said, "It is the tears of the brown rain On the leaves within the lane!" I heard a sudden sighing at the door, A soft, persuasive sighing,

Fear I HEARD a sound of crying in the lane, A passionless, low crying, And I said, "It is the tears of the brown rain On the leaves within the lane!" I heard a sudden sighing at the door, A soft, persuasive sighing,

The turf splits open, and from the hole Bursts forth an unhappy sighing, "Alas, alas, for my wretched soul!" 'Tis poor damned Margaret crying!

Half unaware, he seemed to hear again the contented sighing of the little creature in her sleep, and Emily's low, sweet laugh when she saw his astonishment at her presence.

On a silken pallet lying, under hangings stiff with gold, Now is Coeur-de-Lion sighing, weakly sighing, he the bold!

Toward ten his silence would be broken by a continual sighing and yearning.

The little maid in deft array Carefully folds and lays away With envious sighing.

The hollow is so small that it barely contains my tiffin basket, rifle, gun, and selfin fact, my grass-shod and puttied extremities dangle over the rim, whence a steep slope shelves down some 200 feet to a brawling burn, the hum of which, mingling with the fitful sighing of the pines as the breeze sweeps through their sounding boughs, is perpetually in my ears.