Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sigh (Verb)
Sighed like the dying gasp of a syphon bottle.
—Anonymous
Sighing … as though the sea were mourning above an ancient grief.
—Bliss Carman
The sails did sigh like sedge.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sighed like Boreas.
—Gerald Griffin
Sigh like a dog that hath lost his master.
—Thomas Lodge
He sighs like David’s son for Sheba’s queen.
—Edward Lovibond
Sighs as men sigh relieved from care.
—James Russell Lowell
Sighing … like a tomb-searcher.
—Thomas Moore
Sigh,
Like some sweet plaintive melody of ages long gone by.
—William Motherwell
Sighed as if a deadly burthen had been taken from her breast.
—Edgar Allan Poe
Sighing as April sighs for May.
—T. Buchanan Read
Sighing like furnace.
—William Shakespeare
Sigh, like a school-boy that had lost his A, B,. C. William Shakespeare
Sigh like Tom o’ Bedlam.
—William Shakespeare
Sighed like a man near fainting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Sighs
As a voiceless crying of old love
That died and never spoke.
—Arthur Symons
He sighed like a zephyr.
—Mark Twain
Sighs, like a spirit, deep along the cheerless waste.
—Henry Kirke White