8329 examples of sighs in sentences

"The time is at hand, when none shall be disturbed any longer by the sighs of Nekayah: my search after happiness is now at an end.

In tender sighs he silence breaks, The Fair his flame approves, Consenting blushes warm her cheeks, She smiles, she yields, she loves.

Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.

I stood in the centre of the room, brandishing my arms convulsively, an heaving sighs that seemed to shatter my whole being.

After that a long time passed before any of the sheep answered with words; but, on the other hand, it could be heard distinctly that a pair of them heaved deep sighs.

He is married to a very amiable Russian lady, and having acquired a pretty good fortune in Russia, he lives here very happily and comfortably; but notwithstanding this, he is often tempted to visit Paris, Milan and other great cities, and when there, sighs to return to his native mountains.

My friend young Wardle has fallen in love with a very beautiful cafetière at Lyons', and spends a great part of his time in the café, at which this nymph administers, and looks at her, sighs, looks and sighs again.

My friend young Wardle has fallen in love with a very beautiful cafetière at Lyons', and spends a great part of his time in the café, at which this nymph administers, and looks at her, sighs, looks and sighs again.

The startled cricket was silent, and it alone might have counted the sighs, while in the neighbouring ditch the toad unwearied continued its love-song.

The Foreigner sighs after some British Beauty, whom he only knows by Fame: Upon which she promises, if he can be secret, to procure him a Meeting.

Then she sighs indulgently.)

He is indeed "Like some neglected shrub at random cast That shades the steep and sighs at every blast.

And it would cost me many sighs, To see it win so bright a prize!

No more fell near the square; but the two officers, returning across it, with the terrifying rush of its projectiles in their ears, moved hastily and puffed sighs of relief as they reached the door of the café again.

Sighs, I breathed not.

whose may it be?' Uprose the ladye at once from her dreaming, Dreams born of sighs from the violets round, The jasmine bough caught in her bright tresses, seeming In pity to keep the fair prisoner it bound.

The Aeolian harp, with plaintive wail, Sighs responsive to each gale; Its chords are strung 'mid branching trees, And echo to ev'ry passing breeze; Gently they vibrate through the grove, Touching the chords of life and love, Mixed with the sounds that round me float.

As soon as the boy's sighs gave evidence of returning vitality, Thorne thrust us all from the room, including Mac, who had now come in from class, saying to Buckhurst, "Now, Sir, tell them all about it,and wait here; I shall want you presently."

"Words interwove with sighs found out their way."Id., ib., i, 621.

The musicians continued their singing but with melancholy sighs in the shelter of a corner, to keep out of the furious blasts from the sea.

Not that the girl was given to romantic sighs or tragic starts, or that she carried a miniature for lachrymose exercises; but it was evident that she had what we term "a history."

Then, after drawing one or two more sighs as if his heart were going out of him, he looked dismally upwards as in protest against heaven.

'O sea, you lie awake night and day, heaving sighs.

By these little leaves, as by a string of diamond beads, you may count my sighs, my tears for you."

At times, however, he would pore long and earnestly over a daily paper with knitted brows and sighs.

8329 examples of  sighs  in sentences