This is the salaam that slaves make, and after the salaam Listen to these quick sighings and their wisdom.
My quick sighings carry a tender promise; I will have time to remember in the battle, Though all the world is a thousand whistling swords against me.
In these very sighingsand moanings of your downcast spirit, there are elements for hope and comfort, not for despair.
Who, I ask, is teaching you to breathe out these penitential sighings after a happiness to which at present you feel you are a stranger?
Although the frightful stillness of the atmosphere rendered the manoeuvre difficult, it succeeded in the end, by profiting by the passing and fitful currents, that resembled so many sighings of the air.
The wind came off the sands of the interior in hot puffs, but so lightly as to sound, that it breathed past them like the sighings of the desert.
Be kind or cruel every day, Your Eyes may wear what dress they please, 'Twill not affect me either way, Now my fond Heart has found its Peace, And all my Tears andSighings cease.
Confirm my trembling Doubt, and make me know, Whence all these Blessings, and these Sighings flow.
There can be no Thought more afflicting, than that of the Absence of a Mistress; and which the Sighings of the Heart will soon make you find.
Her melancholy was assisted by the hollow sighings of the wind along the corridor and round the castle.
Such were still the sighings and longings of Mr. Tyler for a national currency of paper money.
Fitful sighings and sobbings rose, as of gusts of wind; then low, smothered roarings.
Thus God's grace shining steadily on the waste places of the human heart, brings up heavenward sighings and aspirations which pierce through the cold snows of affliction, and tell that there is yet life beneath.
Now as I gazed about, I was aware of frequent sighings hard by and going thitherward, beheld Sir Richard upon his knees, absorbed in a passion of prayer, his furrowed cheeks wet with tears.
The sighings of the seed, The groanings of the grieved one, Do sorrows in me breed.
And when their chant ceased, the air would tremble with nocturnal kisses and sighings of love, as with the beatings of invisible wings.
Far off, cocks crew; a dog barked; and then again came silence, measured only by the slow sighings of the sea.
Severus would only reply by a mischievous smile; he knew that these sighings and complaints were not sincere, and that in reality Julian was delighted with his military progress.
There were fewer murmurings and sighings from the surrounding bunks.
Suffice it that I so lost heart, and so yielded myself up to repinings and sighings and foolish regrets, that I neglected my duties and became about worthless, as a reporter for a brisk newspaper.
Months went by; the bloom forsook his cheek, the fire faded out of his eye; sighings and abstraction usurped the place of smiles and cheerful converse.
As soon as the moonlight left me, I fell into a kind of slumber--a delicious trance, broken only by the restless murmurings, the sighings and groanings of the wind.
At times he construed the sounds into real sighings and whisperings, and fancied he could hear his name called, "Casson!
Rise then quickly, and hold thee with prayers, love-sighings and tears.
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