Without warning, the vault let out a pained sigh.

He lowered himself again with a pained sigh.

There was a pained sigh and: "It is similarly affected, Sir."

The closing words of the story are the narrator's resigned and pained sigh: "Ah Bartleby!

Wilmot sank down into the other armchair with a pained sigh.

She released a genuinely pained sigh.

Rick could almost hear her pained sigh as her chest deflated.

'Charley, if this is about being scared ...' She closed her eyes and let out a long, pained sigh.

She gave evidence of life only by the tears streaking her cheeks and by her pained sighs.

Heaving a great pained sigh, Vosnesensky said, "Don't be an idiot.