Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Sigh (Noun)

A sort of sigh, like the grunt of an overburdened St. Joseph.
—Honoré de Balzac

Sighed with such a sigh as drops from agony to exhaustion.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A sigh like driven wind or foam.
—Bliss Carman

My sighs, like silent air, unheeded, never move her.
—Robert Crawford

Profound sigh, like a man unloosed from the tightest bonds.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Pitiful sigh, like a gust of chill, damp wind out of a long-closed vault, the door of which has accidentally been set ajar.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

A sigh like the long-drawn breath of a fog-horn.
—Edgar W. Nye

A great sigh, like that of a giant who is stoned.
—Edgar Quinet

With low, uneasy sigh;
Like the voice of wandering spirits,
Lamenting through the sky.
—Francis S. Saltus

A sigh like that of a saint desirous of dissolution.
—Sir Walter Scott