suspire
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We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
The elements we feel and see shift and drift and suspire And we therein behind the screen, with glimmering brains that tire.
From Perpetual Light : a memorial by William Rose Benét
By his gates of breath There lies a downy feather which stirs not: Did he suspire, that light and weightless down Perforce must move.
From King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
Marlow's tale was a powerful one: I could hear Mrs. Marlow suspire faintly, ever so faintly—the troubled, small, soft sigh of a brave woman indefinably stricken.
From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley
Each of the principals, seconded by his particular waiter, after carefully taking his opponent's range and bearings, will suspire and hit him in the eye.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various
The scene about me suspired like the brilliant and deadly scales of a poisonous reptile.
From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters
But at four o'clock there was a rim, A circled edge of rainbow color Which suspired, widened and narrowed under your gaze: It was the phantasy of straining eyes, Or land—and it was land.
From Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters
He suspired exhaustively in the still, strong heat, and took possession of the scene with commanding, intolerant eyes.
From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Perceval Gibbon
The expression became a war-cry, and the world escaped from the baleful sceptre under whose shadow it had too long suspired.
From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
The Boy is a white flame suspiring in prayer.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
The sad melody wailed upwards as though it were the voice of the wind playing about his grave, every note breathing pathos or suspiring in tremulous anguish.
From Dead Man's Rock by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Only intermittently did the atmosphere so breathe—for breathing it was, the suspiring of the languid, Hawaiian afternoon.
From On the Makaloa Mat by Jack London
You've been suspiring and then you've wiped your forehead with your dirty hand, the way you say I mustn't.
From The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
As he jumped, the girl, Alexa, started, and a cry escaped her parted lips; it was a sigh rather than an exclamation, the voice of a crushed flower suspiring its last vital breath.
From The Doomsman by Van Tassel Sutphen
