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sighed

«Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed!»
«Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.»
«I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: obeyed, sighed
«So he sighed and pined and ogled,And his passion boiled and bubbled,Till he blew his silly brains out,And no more was by it troubled.»
«And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: sighed
«And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; / And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: sighed, spit
«And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: sighed
«Sighed and looked, and sighed again.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: sighed
«No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy»
«Often have I sighed to measureBy myself a lonely pleasure,Sighed to think, I read a bookOnly read, perhaps, by me.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: by me, sighed