Sighs

Examples

• She vented petulant words every now and then, but there were sighs between her words, and sudden listenings between her sighs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There escaped from Eustacia one of those shivering sighs which used to shake her like a pestilent blast. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Edmund's deep sighs often reached Fanny. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Margaret sat at the window, looking out at the lamps and the street, but seeing nothing,--only alive to her father's heavy sighs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• To thee do we send up our sighs, mournings and weepings in this valley of tears-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Edited by Hattie