He was a full-bodied, handsome, amiable-looking old fellow, whose breath came in quick sighs with this light exertion.
Mr. Robert sighs relieved, bunches up a lot of papers in front of him, and begins feelin' absent-minded in his pockets.
I tried chirkin' him up with a few frivolous side remarks; but they don't take, and I sighsrelieved when we're landed at the apartment hotel where Miss Hampton lives.
It made our eyes to shed tears of blood, and our sighs and the sound of our weeping reached upward to the Concourse on High.
What cared he for the sighs of the desolate, the appeals of the hungry, or the tears of the helpless?
On the following morning she proceeded to the boat, amid the cries and lamentations of the faithful Elsy, and with throbbing heart and many sighs gazed on her loved city until it had receded from her view.
Like some sad thought that broods here, old perfumes Haunt its dim stairs; the cautious zephyr tries Each gusty door, like some dead hand, thensighs With ghostly lips among the attic glooms.
She is accustomed to hear these sighs of agony from me.
Methinks the murmur of the summer breeze, as it sighs through the waving branches of the weeping willow, as it stands drooping over an adjoining grave, seems the gentle whisper of departed spirits, wooing us to the skies.
Yes; but all those sighs are mere vanities for you; you do not share human weaknesses; your mind has for ever renounced matrimony, and philosophy has all your love.
I was touched by your attractions, and my tender sighs told you enough of my ardent desires; my heart offered you an immortal love, but you did not think the conquest which your eyes had made noble enough.
He, too, sighs for peace, but a peace full of pomp, magnificent, and flashing with the same pride as war.
Mr. Roosevelt is Imperialist and hesighs for an America mistress of the world.
That the news was the reverse of good soon became evident, from the bowed heads and frequent sighs with which it was received.
She sighs rather impatiently at his apparently intentional misunderstanding of her drift.
Before she catches sight of him he watches for a few moments her bright bent head and flying white fingers, and is able to perceive how many sighs she is sewing into the pattern.
She sighs profoundly, and then goes on quickly, and no longer looking at him.
It rose slowly, slowly, for sighs and blood and tears hung more heavily on it than on other sunken hoards.
Her sighs and lamentations could not pierce through the thick metal walls, but they were only sent back to her in dismal echo.
He stood so still, so motionless, that, but for the deep sighs which at times broke forth, he might have been mistaken for a statue.
He sighs for his birth-place, for the humble roof of his parents, for the fields in which he used to work, for the trees in the shade of which he took his rest.
Light laughter ripples down the wind, Sweet sighs float everywhere; But when I look I nothing find, For every star is there.
Give them to God to bury; float them again, With sighsand prayers to waft them through the gloom, Back to the spring of life.
But think not then, The holder of the plough sighed many sighs Upon his bed that night; or other dreams Than pleasant rose upon his view in sleep; Nor think the airy castles of his brain Had less foundation than the air admits.
It sighs from out the helpless past, Where doleful things abide; Gray ghosts of dead thought sail aghast Across its ebbing tide.
With sighs my soul doth teem; I have no knowledge but that I am sleeping; Haunted with lies, my life will fail in weeping; Wake me from this my dream.
The sighs which thou didst hear were his longings after his own Ideal; and thou didst hear him praying for the Truth he beheld, but could not reach.
Will not thy heart, with tempests of its own, Yet hear aeolian sighs from thin chords blown?
Let your tears flow; let your sad sighs have scope; Only take heed they fan, they water Hope.
Your last sighs Too often breathed out in a woman's hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them.
Her complaints were for the emperor, her sighs for the fate of her children and grandchildren.
Her tears should not flow outwardly, but inwardly to her grief-stricken heart; she suppressed her sighswith a smile, and concealed the pallor of her cheeks with rouge.
The sighs and half-suppressed moaning that escaped Josephine's heaving breast were quite audible.
There was a music in the wind mournful as a croon over the corpse of a beautiful woman, whose hair still shimmers with the golden light of life; but Adam heard no melody in the moaning sighs which seemed to fill the air around.
After having explained to them the difference between white men and Arabs, I pulled out my medicine chest, which evoked another burst of rapturous sighs at the cunning neatness of the array of vials.
At 4:30 Polly, with her finished papers in her hand, crossed the Bridge of Sighs and knocked at Miss Hale's door.
From there she could see the Bridge of Sighs which, as you know, connected the two buildings of the school.
There'll be blood on the metal Ere she wakes from her innocent dreams; There's a long list of kisses to settle, And some love sighs and death sighs, it seems.
Smiling and blushing at the pretty sight, So fraught is she with innocent delight, She feels the tender thrill of his embrace Crushing her lilies into flowery lace; Then sighs and starts, even as though from fright.
If long and deep-drawn sighs I chance to utter, Oh, heed them not, their cause must ne'er be known!
The fondest sighs were heard amid the recitations, and the faces of lover and beloved were flushed the color of rosy flame.
I knew it by her sighs at our first meeting in the garden of Tanje, which, to remember, again and again made me thrill and shudder with joy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sighs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
