She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh,
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
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Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 5).Walter Scott
Dame Sancho would be better if she cared less. I am her barometer- if a sigh escapes me, it is answered by a tear in her eye; I oft assume a gaiety to illume her dear sensibility with a smile- which twenty years ago almost bewitched me; and mark! after twenty years enjoyment, constitutes my highest pleasure!
Ignatius Sancho
We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
Abraham Cowley
A distinct throat. Which breathes. A head: small, smaller than a flower. With eyes and with lips. Lips more slender than light; a smile how carefully and slowly made, a smile made entirely of dream. Eyes deeper than Spring. Eyes darker than Spring, more new . . . These, these are the further miracles . . . the breasts. Thighs. The All which is beyond comprehension — the All which is perpetually discovered, yet undiscovered: sexual, sweet, Alive!
E. E. Cummings
Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,
The upward glancing of an eye
When none but God is near.James Montgomery
The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropp'd a tear upon the word, and blotted it out forever.
Laurence Sterne
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