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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sigh .
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Examples
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Paladin sighed the sigh of the long suffering and pondered whether to answer back.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Jmilb’s Review Forum 2009
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Gavin sighed, stretching tired muscles as he got up from his chair.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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And Robin sighed, "You have got to get that idea out of your head, Dad."
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway buymeaclue 2008
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The pirate captain sighed and pushed off from his broad velcro-laced sofa to recover the spent container. “And he wants me, †McCarran said, mid-flight. “No, he does not, †replied the eunuch. “Oh, †said the pirate.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Here he abode a first day and a second and a third, but the maidens came not; whereat he was sore troubled and wept and sighed from a heart hard tried; and he ceased not weeping and wailing till he fainted away.
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Her name sighed out of him as he gathered her into his embrace, raining kisses over her face, returning to her mouth over and over.
What Dreams May Come Sherrilyn Kenyon, Rebecca York, Robin D. Owens 2005
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Mrs. Peterkin sighed, and decided she would order a simple breakfast.
The Peterkin Papers Lucretia Peabody 1886
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Mr Vincent did not know the intimacy that had subsisted between her ladyship and Miss Portman – she sighed from the recollection of Clarence Hervey, and of all that had passed at the masquerade.
Belinda 1801
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He hung his head a moment, and sighed from the bottom of his heart; but the resignation which he summoned upon every sorrow was never deaf to his call, and when he had secretly ejaculated a short and silent prayer for fortitude to his beloved wife, he turned calmly to the doctor, and began conversing upon other affairs.
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The Captain sighed. “You are a good technician and a gifted cosmonaut, Bai.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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