And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like
sedge.
Coleridge.
The winter winds are wearily sighing.
Tennyson.
An extraordinary pronunciation of this word as sth is still heard in
England and among the illiterate in the United States.
Sigh, v. t. 1. To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
Never man sighed truer breath.
Shak.