Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sigh to count the last few grains of sand...
...Professor would have the answer to his problems. How to be a gentleman, what were the spooks in the Vagabond's garret, and what was this life beyond the grave. Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, and Gray, would be the pinnacles of the hour. The Vagabond breathed his wonted sigh. Like Cowper's "John Gilpin" he had gone...
When the Junior concentrating in History and Literature hands in his last blue-book for the mid-year period, he cannot utter the proverbial sigh and turn to the lighter things of life, since in less than three weeks another more important examination awaits him. On February sixteenth the department of History and Literature has scheduled a divisional on the Bible and Shakespeare...
...imposed on Hofmann, who, while touring America gave 50 public concerts in two and a half months. . . . May not a career of concert giving, extended over a period of years, produce a loss of freshness and spontaneity in the young artist? He may become jaded with adulation and sigh, like Alexander...
...small-town Southern girl, almost a type. Her aunt's canny tutelage, her own adaptability, latent good sense, transform her into an original charmer. When she marries good-natured, talented, rich Michel it is a love-match, but satisfactory to all; Mrs. Selby breathes a sigh of relief and goes on a bender with her husband...