sighful
Americanadjective
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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 Robert Neilson Stephens
"Farewell" is much too sighful for An age that has not time to sigh.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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 Jeffery Farnol
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 Marshall Pinckney Wilder
O master," spake the sighful Dwarf forlorn, "Like many such diseases, 't is inborn.
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Jeffery Farnol
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