I; "Let not my love lament and grieve, Nor sighing pine and die.
She drew a deep, long, sighing breath; she knew that he was safe.
The secrets of the marshland wastes have been whispered in his ears by the wind in the willows, and have been sung to him by the sighing sedge.
But again the sighing gust of air grew into something like a hoarse voice.
The rain had ceased, and the sky had partially cleared; for a few minutes all was still; then Micah could hear a sighing which was not the sighing of the wind.
Jimmy Phoebus looked up at the sighing trees and over the wide façade of Teackle Hall, and exclaimed "by smoke!
Something answering to that description was sitting beside her, sighing like a furnace.
He was the envy of his neighbouring kings; For him their sighing queens despised their lords; And virgin daughters blushed when he was named.
To be mounted upon my fiery steed, lance in hand and sword on thigh, riding down the leafy alleys of the woods yonder, led by the throbbing, sighing melody.
Thus we walked together through a fairy world, the Imp and I, while above the murmur of the waters, above the sighing of the trees, came the soft tremulous melody of the violins.
She may, at last, recline in an expensive casket, and rich exotics may lie in splendid profusion about her, there may be tolling of many bells and sighing of many friends, but after that?
He left with a promise to return soon again, I suppose he likes to comfort Bayard while his sorrows are fresh," she added, closing her eyes languidly and sighing faintly.
I went about like one dreaming, sighing and weeping, and wishing I were dead.
Clemence van Rycke sighed as she read these signs and a bitter word of reproach hovered on her lips; but this she checked and merely sighed--sighing and weeping were so habitual to her, poor soul!
In some such manner did men, unable to refuse, deep in what remained to them of nature, listen to Tinman; and so did Van Diemen, sighing heavily under the operation of simple animal instinct.
They stood under the sighing pines, high in the blue, and the scent of the heather was strong, sweet, in the sunny air.
Clouds came up and hid the sun; a rainy wind made the willows hoary, and set all the poplar leaves sighing and quivering.
How cheering is a fire, even in June and in Southern France, on a rainy night, when the sound of sighing trees comes down the chimney and the tired wayfarer's clothes are sticking to his legs and back!
He lay back in his chair, sighing heavily, and again growing very pale.
I shall love to see the stolid fellowsighing and moaning like a lovesick courtier.
And he, sighing in utter happiness and contentment, closed his eyes again, and lay back very quietly on the couch.
He is not like these Court gallants, who have learnt to make love as soon as they learn to walk, and cannot talk to a woman without bowing and grimacing and sighing at every word.
They had been sighing for a despot in France, for another Richelieu, a fierce, intractable master, wielding a rod of iron, without which the inhabitants could never be reconstructed into a nation.
The music of the waltz invited a renewal of that intoxicating whirl which isolates friends and lovers, in whispering and sighing pairs, in the midst of a great assemblage.
So shames it meaner work—so had I said— But see yon nodding palm that droops its head Low sighing o’er the wave.
Before Miss Wodehouse could say anything they were gone; before she could venture to draw that longsighing breath of relief, she heard the door below close, and the retreating footsteps in the garden.
He who was nothing if not a priest, stood sorrowfully looking at his contemplated martyrdom--like Brother Domenico of St Mark's sighing on the edge of the fiery ordeal into which the Church herself would not let him plunge.
When he had said this, Mr Morgan addressed himself sadly to his dinner, sighingover it, as if that had something to do with his distress.
Edward Mauville sighing at a lady's window like some sentimental serenader!
A well-beloved voice spoke to her on the sighing breeze, an old familiar strain was borne upon the rolling waters: she was communing with another world, and we left her, but not alone.
Yes; I hear the autumn wind sighing round the house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sighing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: moaning; sigh; sobbing; whining
