sighful
Americanadjective
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The music was faint and sweet, with the sighful quality of an Æolian harp.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
This made her poutish and reproachfully silent to Elizabeth, and sighful and whimsical to herself.
From The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Stephens, Robert Neilson
So was I in unholy plight, when, whereas I lay sighful and distressed, there dawned upon my sight one beyond all beauty beautiful.
From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery
"Farewell!" he murmurs, then exits R. U. "Farewell" is much too sighful for An age that has not time to sigh.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
O master," spake the sighful Dwarf forlorn, "Like many such diseases, 't is inborn.
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery
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