Do we say sighs or size

sighs 985 occurrences

"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.

size 6916 occurrences

Add to this the presence of a large hooligan section which is found in almost every Russian town of any size, the open disfavour shown towards the Jews by the Government, and the secret intrigues and incitement of the police, and you get a train of circumstances which lead inevitably to those violent anti-Semitic explosions, known as pogroms, which have stained the pages of modern Russian history.

During the latter part of his stay at Norwood, when the door between his bedroom and sitting-room remained open, one could see on a chest of drawers in the former apartment a pair of life-size porcelain cats, coloured a purplish maroon, with sparkling yellow glass eyes, and an abundance of fantastic yellow spots.

Her method consisted in placing the leaves of each plant with the petals, and all the other parts of the flowers, on coloured paper, and cutting them with scissars accurately to the natural size and form, and then parting them on a dark ground; the effect of which is wonderful, and their accuracy less liable to fallacy than drawings.

And so sure are we of the result that to-day my brothers and I bought ground for doubling the size and capacity of our largest plant.

The balloon-gun of this size isor was at the date when I saw itan exclusively German institution.

There would appear just above the horizon line a ball of smoke as black as your hat and the size of your hat, which meant a grenade of high explosives.

This trench was full of gray figures of the size of very small dolls.

In the second place, it didn't seem possible after being hit one hundred and forty-seven times with 42-centimeter bombs that enough of any fort of whatsoever size would be left to permit of a tallying-up of separate shots.

Its sides were lined with loose pellets of earth of the average size of a tennis ball, and when we slid down into the hole these rounded clods accompanied us in small avalanches.

Taken on the basis of comparative size, it was worse even than Louvain, as we discovered later.

The game includes large deer, like black tails, and exquisite species of dwarf deer, about the size of a three months' fawn, pecarries, wild turkeys, prairie dogs, rabbits and quail.

Unlike the Pueblos, these larger men wear little clothing, so that their muscular development and the size of their limbs are more conspicuous.

[-23-] The soldiers were displeased at the small size of the prizes for the wars that had taken place at this period and no one was willing to carry arms for longer than the specified term of his service.

At that time, in the days of Augustus, those I mentioned were being supported, whether twenty-three or twenty-five altogether; and then there was some allied force, whatever the size, of infantry and cavalry and sailors.

They saw by its size that he must be an enormous creature, and so they looked to see that their arrows and magic sticks were all in good order and handy for use.

"In order to ascertain the size of the world he sent a wolf to run to the end of it and then to return at once to him.

Below them, the water gushes up through the stones, in a hundred streams, forming a flood of considerable size.

The men were all over six feet tall, and magnificently made; and the women were much above the average size and strength.

The date of each rancher's settlement was fairly indicated by the size of the quick-growing umbrella and pepper-trees which had been planted for shade.

It was small, with a soldier's cot of exaggerated size that must have been built for his amplitude of person, and it was bare of ornament except for an old ivory crucifix.

In view of the necessary limitations as to the volume's size, I could not hope to represent all periods of American literature adequately, nor was this necessary in order to give examples of the best that has been done in the short story in a humorous vein in American literature.

"He was smaller than Mr. Warrena man of about my husband's size" She stopped abruptly!

"About your husband's size!"

But since we have already, as it seems, said enough of all the different parts of a speech, and since this volume has swelled to a great size, what follows next shall be stated in the second book.

Yams were reduced from the dimensions of a man's head, to the size of a radish.

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