Synonyms for sighs
sighs

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1. List of paraphrases for "sighs":

   groans, slghs, gasps, moans, sigh

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1. Dante Alighieri:

   There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

2. Juvenal:

   Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

3. Soren Kierkegaard:

   A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."

4. Cynthia Ackrill:

   These don’t need to be audible sighs, you can just change the rate quietly, and you just might get the people around you to slow down their breathing as well.

5. William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.:

   Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.