suspire

Example Sentences

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The scene about me suspired like the brilliant and deadly scales of a poisonous reptile.

From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee

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 Gibbon, Perceval

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 McGovern, John

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 Masters, Edgar Lee