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Definition of Sighed
1. sigh [v] - See also: sigh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sighed
Literary usage of Sighed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"He was imprisoned (such is the lively expression of Sidonius) in the palace ;
and, after passing a sleepless night, he sighed that he had attained the ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"VII Again on the knight looked the churchman old, 70 And again he sighed heavily;
For he had himself been a warrior bold, And fought in Spain and Italy. ..."
3. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"Here was that " pleasant harbor" which we had sighed for, where the weary voyageur
could read the journal of some other sailor, whose bark had ploughed, ..."
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