Which preposition to use with sighed

of Occurrences 689%

I mutter, with a half sigh of relief.

for Occurrences 258%

As RACHEL mourned for her step-mother, I sighed for me home.

in Occurrences 108%

He sighs in the most heartrending manner, and seems to be in a state of extreme nervous tension.

with Occurrences 80%

They are not the work of any earthly song writer, but are born of some untuned Eolian harp played upon by uncertain breezes, that murmur the memory of tropical groves and sigh with the sadness of exile.

from Occurrences 60%

And when I had fixed my eyes on his more intently than was my wont, methought I could read in his eyes words which might be uttered in this wise: "O lady, thou alone art mine only bliss!" Certainly, if I should say that this idea was not pleasing to me, I should surely lie, for it drew forth a gentle sigh from my bosom, accompanied by these words: "And thou art mine!"

at Occurrences 49%

Cou'd he so easily see me given away, Without a Sigh at parting?

over Occurrences 44%

I seem to do nothing but get savage and then sigh over it.

to Occurrences 38%

That's when he's present only, and makes his Court to me; I can sigh to a Lover, but will never sigh after him:but Oh, the Beaus, the Beaus, Cousin, that I saw at Church.

through Occurrences 37%

For years the wind had blown sighing through its deserted rooms, while the rain rotted the planking.

after Occurrences 17%

That's when he's present only, and makes his Court to me; I can sigh to a Lover, but will never sigh after him:but Oh, the Beaus, the Beaus, Cousin, that I saw at Church.

on Occurrences 14%

Summer goes, Sigh on sigh; Not a rose Sees him die.

like Occurrences 13%

Suppose you were told that a passage of twenty-eight lines contains the following expressions: "mewling and puking," "whining schoolboy," "satchel," "sighing like furnace," "round belly," "spectacles on nose," "shrunk shank," "sans [without] teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

as Occurrences 13%

Peter sighed as the recollection of Patty Steele and his youthful love floated across his brain.

among Occurrences 9%

The night winds moaned and sighed among the trees above us, while the night bird's notes came soothingly from the wilderness around as.

about Occurrences 7%

A vagrant wind sighed about the place.

into Occurrences 7%

Still Elizabeth appeared only as a thing of joy, contentment, and gratitude; and often did her evening song beguile her aged friend's sigh into a smile.

along Occurrences 5%

Oh, when ye to Granada come (and may great Allah send His guardian host to guide you to that sweet journey's end!), Carry my sighs along with you, and breathe them in the ear Of foes who do me deadly wrong, of her who holds me dear.

under Occurrences 4%

We sometimes sigh under the weight of our burden on account of poor Germany, from which land the accounts continue unsatisfactory.

around Occurrences 4%

A crowd of suitors would sigh around her, like the loves and graces round that fair Belinda whose story she had read so often; and it would be her part to choose the most worthy.

behind Occurrences 3%

I heard a deep sigh behind me, and turning, I saw Pauline in a dead faint.

above Occurrences 3%

like sighs above the dead!

across Occurrences 3%

The glory of the summer deepened and grew more intense, the foliage assumed a darker tint of emerald, the sky glowed with a more dazzling blue, and the songs of the busy harvesters came sad and slow, like the long, melancholy swell of pensive sighs across the hills and fields, dying away finally into the "harvest home," which told that the golden grain would wave no more in the wind until another year.

than Occurrences 3%

Then, with a deeper sigh than before, he drew beneath this another sketchthe same head, but very different.

by Occurrences 2%

"And I sit and sigh by the idle stream, Ah, well-a-day for the bright old days!

between Occurrences 2%

The prospect of being with the girls and the kiddies again makes me want to do a Highland Fling, even if I am in a monastery with a sad-faced young priest serving me tea and mournful sighs between prayers.

Which preposition to use with  sighed