Example Sentences

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Maunder has been sighing for the last ten minutes, and I know what that means.

From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Moore, Leslie

He has been sighing like a Sybarite These six weeks past, and now he sends to me To hire my bravo.

From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Ever since they returned from their honeymoon in Denver, she has been sighing to run the house,” said Mrs. Brewster, “feeding the fire” carefully.

From Polly in New York by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

To make vocal, to translate into reality all the world has been sighing for—striving after.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph

The sympathetic friend, for whom he has been sighing all his life, is found.

From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by Symonds, John Addington