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1  Heathcliff gazed after him, and sighed.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  There was another sigh, close at my ear.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  Edgar sighed; and, walking to the window, looked out towards Gimmerton Kirk.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  Her lips were half asunder, as if she meant to speak, and she drew a breath; but it escaped in a sigh instead of a sentence.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  His attention was roused, I saw, for his eyes rained down tears among the ashes, and he drew his breath in suffocating sighs.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  It was very, very sad: and while I read I sighed, for it seemed as if all joy had vanished from the world, never to be restored.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  I let him enjoy the luxury unannoyed; and after sucking out his last wreath, and heaving a profound sigh, he got up, and departed as solemnly as he came.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
8  He roamed to and fro, meantime, in a state approaching distraction; his heavy sighs succeeding each other so thick as to leave no space for common breathing between.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  This lamentation drew no notice from me: I went briskly to work, sighing to remember a period when it would have been all merry fun; but compelled speedily to drive off the remembrance.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Mr. Linton summoned me, and with great difficulty, and after resorting to many means, we managed to restore her to sensation; but she was all bewildered; she sighed, and moaned, and knew nobody.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  We neither of us lay down: Catherine took her station by the lattice, and watched anxiously for morning; a deep sigh being the only answer I could obtain to my frequent entreaties that she would try to rest.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  She was conscious of his aim, and in her better moods endured his efforts placidly, only showing their uselessness by now and then suppressing a wearied sigh, and checking him at last with the saddest of smiles and kisses.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  That was worse: she fretted and sighed, and looked at her watch till eight, and finally went to her room, completely overdone with sleep; judging by her peevish, heavy look, and the constant rubbing she inflicted on her eyes.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  He sighed and moaned like one under great suffering, and kept it up for a quarter of an hour; on purpose to distress his cousin apparently, for whenever he caught a stifled sob from her he put renewed pain and pathos into the inflexions of his voice.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  On fine evenings the latter followed his shooting expeditions, and Catherine yawned and sighed, and teased me to talk to her, and ran off into the court or garden the moment I began; and, as a last resource, cried, and said she was tired of living: her life was useless.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
16  She lifted the letter, and seemed to peruse it; and when she came to the signature she sighed: yet still I found she had not gathered its import, for, upon my desiring to hear her reply, she merely pointed to the name, and gazed at me with mournful and questioning eagerness.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV