Word: sighingly
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...Mack would sigh, "we found that...
Officials looked forward to a big attendance, more than 70,000, and profitable sales. But none of the artists was optimistic about the future of German art itself. Said one old impressionist: "Right after the war we breathed a great sigh of relief . . . We all said to ourselves that there would surely be something revolutionary hidden away in somebody's desk drawer . . . Then we realized there was nothing...
...finding out how a boy got along with his new baby sister as he was in giving inoculations. He was something of a presence, especially to little girls. "When he patted the glands in your throat, you felt you'd been blessed," one ex-patient remembers with a sigh. He wore a business suit rather than a white coat which might seem strange to little children, and he made a game of their regular checkups-designing a special structure up which they willingly scrambled to be on and thumped. His enormous practice wasn't built on gadgets, however...
About this time the Union, remembering the previous spring's Russell Lowell debated, amended its constitution to ensure all guests complete freedom of speech. And Widener Library book pilfering reached new heights. In January sophomores fingered their wallets and breathed a sigh of relief that the new $50 increase in tuition would only apply to new students...
Mother & Mankind. Walter Pater tried to pierce her veils with a poetic sigh: "She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times . . . and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands...