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Example sentences for "thousand sighs"

  • So she raised her veil and I saw a face the sight of which bequeathed to me a thousand sighs, and my heart was so captivated by her love that I was no longer ruler of my reason.

  • Then she unveiled her face and I saw she was like the moon and stole at her a glance that cost me a thousand sighs.

  • The sight cost her a thousand sighs, and Noureddin, chancing to look that way, caught a glance of her that caused him also a thousand regrets, and each fell into the snare of the other's love.

  • She stole one glance at him that cost her a thousand sighs: her heart fluttered and her entrails yearned and she exclaimed, 'Speak to me, O my lord!

  • He receives her Reproaches with a thousand Sighs, and bemoans her Misfortune in not being capable of more than Friendship for her; and vows, that next Atlante, he esteems her of all Womankind.

  • Khatun obeyed her and sat down in the shop- front of the young merchant, who cast at her one glance of eyes that cost him a thousand sighs.

  • FN#230] With this she raised her veil and showed him her face, whereat he took one glance of eyes that cost him a thousand sighs.

  • FN#59] Thereupon she came forward, swinging her haunches and gracefully swaying a shape the handiwork of Him whose boons are hidden; and each of them stole one glance of the eyes that cost them a thousand sighs.

  • A fire had been darted into my heart, and the flame increased; the sight drew from me a thousand sighs, and I was perplexed; for I heard not anything from her, and understood not what she meant by her signs.

  • As I now beheld him, his countenance appeared like the full moon, and his whole person exhibited such perfect elegance and loveliness, that a single glance at him drew from me a thousand sighs, and kindled a fire in my heart.

  • And upon this she raised her veil; and when I beheld her face, the sight drew from me a thousand sighs, and my heart was entangled by her love, so that I no longer remained master of my reason.

  • The sight of him occasioned her a thousand sighs; and a look from the youth, at her, affected him also in the same manner.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    commonly supposed; great necessity; light brown; one sees; peculiar expression; permanent magnet; thousand crowns; thousand diners; thousand ducats; thousand feet; thousand florins; thousand francs; thousand generations; thousand gold; thousand head; thousand livres; thousand pieces; thousand pistoles; thousand pounds; thousand roubles; thousand sequins; thousand warriors; thousand worlds; thousand yards; thousand years; town house