Word: sighingly
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...keep quiet under pretence of listening to a noise from the top; and when we rose to the level of the black opening I strained eye and ear to catch some sign of what Colney was doing. All was dark and silent, however; and I was just heaving a sigh of relief as we rose to the top of the opening, when, quick as a serpent's tongue, a spade-handle, with a long knife lashed to the end, darted out of the shadow, and made a thrust at the rope where it was already worn almost through...
...groanist gets 10s. 5d. "a go." The profession of actor is often a lucrative one; of a playwright who hits the popular taste, a brilliantly paid one; but the man who could get continuous orders for "moans followed by applause" at the rate of half-a-guinea a sigh would do better business than either...
...Would he were mine, my lord," she said, and sigh...
...answered Yung, with a sigh; for the question had called up torturing thoughts in his mind...
...many of our most important acts and thoughts, our friend the philosopher would say, are guided by chance! A sympathetic glance, when the lip is trembling, - a sigh, when the heart is full, - these are the causes of passionate affection; but an ill-timed word, an act of presuming tenderness too soon, will destroy the best-founded hopes...