SIGH


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SIGHSurgical Instrument Group Holdings Ltd. (UK)
SIGHStandardization Initiative for Glycated Haemoglobin Scheme (clinical chemistry)
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And Beth looked at her rough hands with a sigh that any one could hear that time.
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I know not that l especially needed the lesson, either in the way of warning or rebuke; but at any rate, I learned it thoroughly: nor, it gives me pleasure to reflect, did the truth, as it came home to my perception, ever cost me a pang, or require to be thrown off in a sigh.
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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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More especially is this the case with those whose lines breathe sadness, where the refrain comes like a sigh at the end of a regret:
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You think there are enough of us here to make it so," returned the lady, with an affected sigh.
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Raoul came in contact with that trembling hand, took it within his own, and carried it so respectfully to his lips, that he might be said to have deposited a sigh upon it rather than a kiss.
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Yes," replied the old man, heaving the monosyllable from his chest with a hoarse, broken sigh.
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Well, as he actually is going away," Sir Charles remarked with a sigh of content, "I suppose it's no use being jealous.
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That reminds me," she went on, with a little sigh, "I must warn you about father.
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Cornelius heaved a sigh, which might have been called a groan.
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Having carefully brushed his hair and whiskers all the wrong way to make them look as shaggy as possible, the shaggy man breathed a deep sigh of joy and decided he was ready to meet the Royal Princess as soon as she sent for him.
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I'll try to obey mother ALWAYS," wrote Sara Ray, with a tremendous sigh, as if she fully realized the difficulty of keeping such a resolution.
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