Audible breath expressing weariness

Usage examples of sigh.

He sighed and smiled absently at the image of the saint in the corner.

And if I asked Biliktu, after she had rested for a while, to come and join me and her sister, she might sigh, but she would usually accede, and she would give good account of herself.

There was a visible and audible sigh of relief from the assembled fellows of the American Tonsil, Adenoid and Vas Deferens Society.

Months he had wandered about the gates of the Bonnet, wondering, sighing, knocking at them, and getting neither admittance nor answer.

I took the opportunity of telling her that if she willed I would be hers, as I adored her, but that I could not sigh for long.

Petrarch sighs an indignant complaint, that the ancient capital of the world should adorn from her own bowels the slothful luxury of Naples.

Sure that the sigh of Ammon came from air within the adytum beneath, Ravion had gone to the temple and burned a special preparation.

She shrieked to the ravens that croaked from afar, And she sighed to the gusts of the wild sweeping wind.

Then the old woman rendring out like sighes, began to speake in this sort : My daughter take a good heart unto you, and bee not afeared at feigned and strange visions and dreams, for as the visions of the day are accounted false and untrue, so the visions of the night doe often change contrary.

And then she would talk of subjects suggested by the pious Agaric, interrupting the conversation with sighs and kisses.

Selecting a long-stemmed goblet of greenish wine and a stylish little Perkup nasal inhaler, Alacrity sighed.

Settling beside him, Alec looked out at the wild beauty of the night and let out a happy sigh.

Ready to spring the final ruse, Alec cast a yearning look toward the keep and sighed deeply.

Sighing with relief, she sat on a bench by the almonry and watched Jenny romp with a kitten.

He groaneth oft, and sighs amain, Poor soul is he In verity, And for his freedom sighs in vain.