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At last she sighed.
Once he sighed, "I should have liked to see him again!"
But when she passed by it (if Bovary were there), she sighed—"Ah! my poor piano!"
At last Felicite sighed—"If I were you, madame, I should go to Monsieur Guillaumin.""Do you think—"And this question meant to say—"You who know the house through the servant, has the master spoken sometimes of me?""Yes, you'd do well to go there."
"You think so?" she said, drawing nearer, and she sighed.
"I am thirsty; oh! so thirsty," she sighed.
Charles burst out into blasphemies: "I hate your God!""The spirit of rebellion is still upon you," sighed the ecclesiastic.
And the druggist, who could not hold out any longer, about four in the morning sighed—"My word!
At last the old fellow sighed—"Do you remember, my friend, that I went to Tostes once when you had just lost your first deceased?
It was not love that made him squeeze it and hold on to it so tightly, she sighed frequently and tried to disengage her hands from him.
Whenever I looked in on him he sighed as if this reading was a lot of work for him.
One of them rubbed the cushion with the forefinger of her glove, and showed the result to the other, and they both sighed, and sat down, with the air of early Christian martyrs trying to make themselves comfortable up against the stake.
The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter; and Harris and I sighed over the hollowness of all earthly desires, and followed George.
We thought of the happy days of childhood, and sighed.
But the glance was unreturned, and Frances unconsciously sighed as she sought the solitude of her own apartment.
The chilling air sighed through the leafless branches of the gnarled and crooked oaks, as with a step so light as hardly to rustle the dry leaves on which she trod, Frances moved forward to that part of the hill where she expected to find this secluded habitation; but nothing could she discern that in the least resembled a dwelling of any sort.
But he grew tired once more, after a while; tried to amuse himself with a fly but found no relief; followed an ant around, with his nose close to the floor, and quickly wearied of that; yawned, sighed, forgot the beetle entirely, and sat down on it.
The villagers conducted their concerns with an absent air, and talked little; but they sighed often.
"At such a time, so dark, so dreary, for human sympathy my very spirit sighed; but instead thereof,"'My dearest friend, my counsellor, my comforter and guide--My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy,' came to my side.
But the night before the unhappy day of my departure she wept, she moaned, she sighed, and she withdrew leaving me filled with perplexity and amazement, overwhelmed at the sight of such strange and affecting signs of grief and sorrow in Luscinda; but not to dash my hopes I ascribed it all to the depth of her love for me and the pain that separation gives those who love tenderly.
PANIAGUADO, ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA,IN LAUDEM DULCINEAE DEL TOBOSOSONNETShe, whose full features may be here descried, high-bosomed, with a bearing of disdain, is Dulcinea, she for whom in vain the great Don Quixote of La Mancha sighed.
Don Quixote sighed on hearing the duchess's request, and said, "If I could pluck out my heart, and lay it on a plate on this table here before your highness's eyes, it would spare my tongue the pain of telling what can hardly be thought of, for in it your excellence would see her portrayed in full.
But one day at table with the duke and duchess, just as he was about to carry his resolution into effect and ask for their permission, lo and behold suddenly there came in through the door of the great hall two women, as they afterwards proved to be, draped in mourning from head to foot, one of whom approaching Don Quixote flung herself at full length at his feet, pressing her lips to them, and uttering moans so sad, so deep, and so doleful that she put all who heard and saw her into a state of perplexity; and though the duke and duchess supposed it must be some joke their servants were playing off upon Don Quixote, still the earnest way the woman sighed and moaned and wept puzzled them and made them feel uncertain, until Don Quixote, touched with compassion, raised her up and made her unveil herself and remove the mantle from her tearful face.
The boy sighed deeply, and, bestowing an ardent gaze upon its plumpness, unwillingly consigned it to his master.
'Pleasant, pleasant country,' sighed the enthusiastic gentleman, as he opened his lattice window.
That insinuating gentleman sighed deeply, fixed his eyes on the spinster aunt's face for a couple of minutes, started melodramatically, and suddenly withdrew them.
And Tom sighed involuntarily, as he thought of the bar.
Here Mr. Trotter sighed deeply.
"Well, sir," says old Fogg, looking at him very fierce--you know his way-- "well, Sir, have you come to settle?""Yes, I have, sir," said Ramsey, putting his hand in his pocket, and bringing out the money, "the debt's two pound ten, and the costs three pound five, and here it is, Sir;" and he sighed like bricks, as he lugged out the money, done up in a bit of blotting-paper.
Having imparted this valuable secret, Mr. Weller drained his glass once more, produced a laboured wink, sighed deeply, and slowly retired.
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