Meanings of sighed after in English

When the waitress took it and stomped off, Noah sighed after her.

He called them monarchists, and said they sighed after King, Lords, and Commons.

She sighed after a while and murmured something.

Mrs. Cowperwood sighed after he had gone.

I sighed after her, my heart was grieved at her situation, but I did not follow her.

He ardently sighed after the happiness which a devout soul finds in being perfectly disengaged from all earthly things.

Darlington sighed after a moment.

Her independent life had many advantages: her mother had often sighed after her liberty: she had no desire to lose it.

And these would also have lost their charms, had you gained them, and your restless heart still sighed after an ideal good.

So this Truth which he had sighed after so long, which had been so much promised to him, was only a decoy!

Yet these scattered friars sighed after the home-coming and the long conversations with their spiritual father in the tranquil forests of the suburbs of Assisi.

"Paige," he sighed after what seemed like a lifetime had passed.

"Well-I'man outsider to the end of my days!" he sighed after a while.

"Here is the one you have so often sighed after,"... then turning to Topándy-"MadameBálnokházy."

"You're not much for pillow talk, are you?" I sighed after him, then hurried upstairs to change.

"Never mind," Anora sighed after a moment.