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Sentences starting with sighs

Sighs were heard, words of prayer, and the sobbing of the count's old valet. [2]
Sighs are cheap with him, and every word costs a ducat. [10]
Sighs were the only sound heard in the crowd. [2]

Sentences ending with sighs

The band itself was half asleep, but by sheer force of habit it kept on, the fiddlers drawing the perfunctory bows, and the melancholy clarionet men breathing their expressive sighs. [4]
Albeit, up on that height meseemed a keen wind was blowing, which she did battle with so hardly that through many a still night I could hear her sighs. [10]
Does the river listen to your sighs? [6]

Sentences containing sighs two or more times

Pretty soon he sighs and shakes his head; then sighs again, and says: "No, it wouldn't do--there ain't necessity enough for it. [5]

More example sentences with the word sighs in them

The count listened with closed eyes, heaving abrupt sighs at certain passages. [2]
Garnham says: "It was on the evening before his departure, as he wished still once to visit the Lei and offer to the Nymph of the Rhine his Sighs, the tones of his Zither, and his Songs. [5]
The doomed man was marched down a hall and out at a door-way into the covered Bridge of Sighs, through it and into the dungeon and unto his death. [5]
Among these delightful themes stands that of woman, the balm to all our sighs and disappointments, and the most pre-eminent of all other topics. [5]
You laugh at the sighs of a man--say at once of an old man! [10]
When I pass the great gates of thy house with Katuti, she often sighs and complains bitterly. [10]
Many sighs from the bottom of her heart, and many shrill little cries betrayed how intense was the pain Selene was enduring. [10]
The Bridge of Sighs, of course--and next the Church and the Great Square of St. Mark, the Bronze Horses, and the famous Lion of St. Mark. [5]
Poor everybody that sighs for earthly remembrance in a planet with a core of fire and a crust of fossils! [6]
They pictured her referring with sighs to her Connections, and bewailing that Stephen could not have finished his course at Harvard. [9]
Live in thy past; await no more The rush of heaven-sent wings; Earth still has music left in store While Memory sighs and sings. [6]
The Mistress slipped out into the kitchen to fill a basket with provisions and send it somewhere; and when the Fire-Tender brought in a new forestick, Mandeville, who always wants to talk, and had been sitting drumming his feet and drawing deep sighs, attacked him. [4]
It was not on account of Cornelia's sighs and sentimentalities and tea and manna and late hours and soft and sweet and industrious enticements; no, it was because "his happiness in his home had been wounded and bruised almost to death. [5]
Even the great omnipotent sovereign there had his own cross to bear; tears flowed in his proud palace also, and sighs of anguish were heard. [10]
The sorely-threatened inhabitants of the rescued city, with thankful hearts, uttered sighs of relief. [10]
His long sigh of relief was joined to the sighs of the others when Patsy finished. [11]
At rare and long intervals, however, he sighs a sigh that is the eloquent expression of a secret confession, to wit "I am useless and a nuisance, a cumberer of the earth. [5]
F. Yes, and had all his sighs and looks and tears been lives, my great revenge could have slain them all, without the least condemnation. [5]
We intended to go to the Bridge of Sighs, but happened into the Ducal Palace first--a building which necessarily figures largely in Venetian poetry and tradition. [5]
And he never dreamed that such a joyful letter could sadden her and fill her night with sighs, and troubled thoughts, and bodings of the future, instead of filling it with peace and blessing it with restful sleep. [5]
All were silently crossing themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of feet were the only sounds that could be heard. [2]
What a lingering catalogue of sighs and tears lies just before me, crowding my aching bosom with the fleeting dream of humanity, which must shortly terminate. [5]
The ponderous stone Bridge of Sighs crosses it at the second story--a bridge that is a covered tunnel --you can not be seen when you walk in it. [5]
Only among the back rows of the people, who were all pressing toward the one spot, could sighs, groans, and the shuffling of feet be heard. [2]
And more tears and laughter and sighs as Mammy Easter and Rosetta unpacked the English trunks, and with trembling hands and rolling eyes laid each Parisian gown upon the bed. [9]
I heard sighs and breathings about my bed, and mysterious whisperings. [5]
The unfortunate Pollux also awoke towards morning with sighs many and deep; for it seemed to him that last evening he had ruined his whole future prospects. [10]

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