"Sigh-born" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... peril, I had so far yielded to the influence of the mighty calm as to sink into a profound reverie. The month was August; in the middle of which lay my own birthday—a festival to every thoughtful man suggesting solemn and often sigh-born [Footnote: "Sigh-born":—I owe the suggestion of this word to an obscure remembrance of a beautiful phrase in "Giraldus Cambrensis"—viz., suspirios cogitationes.] thoughts. The county was my own native county—upon which, ...
— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey |
