sighing

“Mine is a long and a sad tale!” said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing.

They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break.

“So he did, so he did,” said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.

That night came Aunt Ellen, gentle, sentimental, wrinkled, sighing, oppressed by wealth, in to Brother Anthony at his evening paper, and began discourse on the subject of lovers’ woes.