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Bridge of Sighs,
which connects the palace of the Doge with the state prisons of Venice. Over this bridge the state prisoners were conveyed from the judgement-hall to the place of execution.
“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,
A palace and a prison on each hand.”
⁂ Waterloo Bridge, in London, used, some years ago, when suicides were frequent there, to be called The Bridge of Sighs.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.