As for the honest old seaman, there was as much melody in the howling of a gale to his unsophisticated ears, as in any thing else, and he saw no difference between this feat of the Templeton band and the sighings of old Boreas; and, to say the truth, our nautical critic was not so much out of the way.

As he sat eating, in at the window came all manner of little soundstwitterings and sighings and warblings and rustlings, and all the little voices said together: "'We are the sounds of the open.

What are these sighings?" Li Chia threw off the blanket and seemed about to speak, but the words would not come from him.

Our yearnings are homesickness for heaven; our sighings are for God; just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents.