Lexicographical Neighbors of Besighing
Literary usage of Besighing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"And now the feeling of his youthful dissipation became a thorn in the soul of Franz.
Many a touching monodrama did he begin with an O and an Ah, besighing ..."
2. German Romance: Translations from the German, with Biographical and Critical by Thomas Carlyle (1898)
"Many a touching monodrama did he begin with an O and an Ah, besighing his past
madness : " Ah, Meta," said he to himself, " why did I not know thee sooner! ..."
3. German Romance: Specimens of Its Chief Authors by Thomas Carlyle, Jean Paul, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1841)
"Many a touching monodrama did he begin with an O and an Ah, besighing his past
madness. "Ah, Metu," said he to himself, " why did I not know thec sooner! ..."
4. Translations from the German by Thomas Carlyle by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Karl August Musäus, Ludwig Tieck, Jean Paul (1858)
"Many a touching monodrama did he begin with an O and an Ah, besighing his past
madness : " Ah, Meta," said he to himself, " why did I not know thee sooner! ..."
5. German romance, specimens of its chief authors, with biogr. and critical by Thomas Carlyle (1827)
"Many a touching monodrama did he begin with an O and an Ah, besighing his past
madness: " Ah, Meta," said he to himself, " why did I not know thee sooner ! ..."
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