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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Kk5 At length he ended—His oft sigh-broken dittie.

1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. 15 I will suppresse my sigh-swolne sadnesse.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Han, the..sigh-like voyce, wherewith woodcleauers, &c., keepe time to their stroakes.

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 19 Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures.

1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xvii. lxiii. 262 With such potent passion did she breath That sigh-clogg'd Word.

a1847 E. Cook Under Moon ix. 1 We may breathe a farewell in a sigh-deepened tone.

1849 T. De Quincey Vision Sudden Death in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 746/2 Suggesting solemn and..sigh-born thoughts.

1873 E. J. Brennan Witch of Nemi 12 Bathed in the streams of sigh-fermented tears.

1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons ii. 193 When the young bird appears to be contented and very comfortable, it utters a plaintive, almost sigh-like cheep.

1964 J. C. Catford in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 32 Auditory effect, ‘sigh-like’ mixture of breath and voice: one form of voiced [h].