suspire
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We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zadkiel or no Zadkiel, I will suspire, and risk it, "O that I were lying under the olives!"
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
"But times are bad!" he would suspire in moments of depression.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
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
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
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
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 scene about me suspired like the brilliant and deadly scales of a poisonous reptile.
From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters
The Boy is a white flame suspiring in prayer.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
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
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
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
