SIGH


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SIGHSurgical Instrument Group Holdings Ltd. (UK)
SIGHStandardization Initiative for Glycated Haemoglobin Scheme (clinical chemistry)
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Let them sympathise with me and sigh with me on account of my chilblains: "At the ice of knowledge will he yet FREEZE TO DEATH!"--so they mourn.
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"I wish I could remember her," said the Story Girl, with a little sigh. "I haven't even a picture of her.
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Porthos sighed for the fifth time -- D'Artagnan had counted his sighs.
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`I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. `I only took the regular course.'
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"That I cannot tell you either," said the servant, "for I have not seen her face all the way: I have indeed heard her sigh many times and utter such groans that she seems to be giving up the ghost every time; but it is no wonder if we do not know more than we have told you, as my comrade and I have only been in their company two days, for having met us on the road they begged and persuaded us to accompany them to Andalusia, promising to pay us well."
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This unguarded expression made Montalais laugh and Raoul sigh with happiness, for he interpreted it thus: "She knows all our love."
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But the Gnat only sighed deeply, while two large tears came rolling down its cheeks.
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(And I heard nor sigh nor groan) With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one.
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"Most generally it doesn't take so long," sighed Pollyanna; "and lots of times now I just think of them WITHOUT thinking, you know.
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"The only thing is to prepare ourselves for changes," said Sighs, who had conducted the fifth form for five and twenty years with unparalleled incompetence.
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One sighed, and another sighed, and Marian's plump figure sighed biggest of all.
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And I said -- "She is warmer than Dian: She rolls through an ether of sighs -- She revels in a region of sighs.
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