But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.
"I can't wait until my birthday this year, " she sighs, and finishes her drink.
Coming after a run of gloomy statistics, this was the cue for sighs of relief all round.
In the first of their encounters, Mr. Gore repeatedly expressed disdain for Mr. Bush with frowns, eye rolls, head shakes, and sighs, but this arrogant behavior immediately boomeranged.
"It will probably be like this forever, " she sighs.
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"This is pretty bad, " sighs Olivier Lebret, president of the winery's North American operations.
"Why Congress can't resist this temptation to engineer stuff is beyond me, " he sighs.
His commitment that the ECB would intervene in the markets to buy an unlimited volume of bonds on behalf of any euro-zone country requesting this assistance provided that the country adheres to certain conditions drew sighs of relief across the currency bloc.
"People are just running to this thing in a way that I think is scary, " sighs Wandro, who recalls how legitimate ethanol projects in Iowa collapsed after oil prices fell in the mid-1980s.
Meanwhile, the position and lighting of "The Bridge of Sighs" (1903-04) suggests we've never before seen this familiar sight.
"He's a sophisticated, astute businessman, and yet he was caught up with these trusts, " sighs the Bloomfield Hills, Mich. attorney, who talked his client out of this one.
"You would have thought we would have had some certainty by this point, but as we get closer to Dec. 31 the uncertainty seems to be getting greater, " sighs Mitchell Drossman, national director of wealth-planning strategies with U.S. Trust.
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