21 Metaphors for sighs

A sigh is a rapid and generally audible expiration, due to the elastic recoil of the lungs and chest walls.

Sighs are the chorus in our tragedy. PHILOMUSUS.

The balmiest sigh Which vernal Zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene.

Even the first glimpse of grandeur was too much for the spirit whose sigh was "vanity, all is vanity," and, with the words on her lips, "A life's love lost," she died.

Sighs are the chorus in our tragedy. PHILOMUSUS.

"And you want to be just like her," he sighed, but the sigh was almost a groan.

His sighs are the notes of his music, and his song is like the swan before her death.

My step is firm, and my heart is glad; This last, last sigh for my home shall be Past is the trialI go with thee.

When he felt the handle against his palm, he knew that he had been holding his breath, and that the sigh he gave was an involuntary relief that the others had not glimpsed the blade under his clasped fingers.

None escape his watchful ears, Every sigh might be a shout.

Methinks a shriek were music, a sigh were melody, a groan a feast.

"Yet hearts refin'd their sadden'd tint retain, "The sigh is pleasure, and the jest is pain.

" Elinor's sigh was almost a sob; but Miss Van Brock's eyes were dancing.

The sigh is a weak low tone produced by a quick expiration followed by a slow and deep inspiration.

For a time her sighs were heardbut at length sleep came to her relief, and her grief was forgotten in dreams.

20 The sighs which Matthew heaved were sighs Of one tired out with fun and madness; The tears which came to Matthew's eyes Were tears of light, the dew of gladness.

Their sighs shall be good wind for us.

Of her bright face, one glance will trace a picture on the brain, And of her voice, in echoing hearts a sound must long remain; But memory such as mine of her, so very much, endears When death is nigh, my latest sigh will not be life's, but hers.

Vain Your Grecian mocks and Roman sword Against this image of his Lord; For a tear is an intellectual thing; And a sigh is the sword of an angel king; And the bitter groan of a martyr's woe Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow.

The pang is past,and now with blest endeavour I check the ready tear, the rising sigh The common earth is herethe common sky The common FATHER.

His sighs, glances, sadness when in her presence, were signs to her of a passion that she would be compelled to subdue with a strong, ruthless hand.

21 Metaphors for  sighs