sighings

The door had been left hooked open, and Jerry trotted out into the cabin where half a hundred blacks made queer sleep-moanings, and sighings, and snorings.

CHAPTER V 2010

Ask your mail carrier, and he or she will tell you the frequency of their sighings.

Wild, wild life (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Pursuit, with all its Tantalus delights, its sighings and its songs, is gone, never to return.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

We hear the gentle heaving sighings of waves, of giants, rumbling over, making us feel small and when we open our eyes, finally, to the night, we are not in water at all but wakeful and dry and blind.

while we sleep Quenby Larsen 2010

They send each other the song of the birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation.

Les Miserables 2008

I fell prostrate to the ground, all but unconscious, I was yet aware that the notes - those same four notes - were fading and the whisperings and sighings of the spirits growing weaker till at last I could hear nothing.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

The whisperings and sighings of the spirits grew fainter until at last, there was silence.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

May the reverent reception of your sacrament, O Lord, wash away the stains of our sins with sighings and tears and, by your grace, obtain for us the pardon we desire.

Ruins Terry Nelson 2006

He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense; friends who talked about him, and lauded him at public meetings; who shook hands with him on platforms and drank his health at dinners; but he had no friends who could sit with him over his own hearth, in true friendship, and listen to, and sympathize with, and moderate the sighings of the inner man.

Doctor Thorne 2004

Her melancholy was assisted by the hollow sighings of the wind along the corridor and round the castle.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004