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Specialty Expressions: Bridge of Sighs

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Bridge of SighsLiterature1: Which connects the palace of the Doge with the state prisons of Venice. Over this bridge the state prisoners were conveyed from the judgment-hall to the place of execution.
2: "I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,
3: Waterloo Bridge, in London, used, some years ago, when suicides were frequent there, to be called The Bridge of Sighs.
4: Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, iv. 1:
5: A palace and a prison on each hand." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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