But, while they took this overt means of stirring the commiseration of the crowd, it was whispered that the last treacherous device for averting the danger was being tried.
Their Saviour, who possessed more benevolence and commiseration than they pretend to, has allowed of it.
He pitied himself with a commiseration that was sickly in spite of its truth.
Then Mrs Grantly was told, and the whole story was repeated again, with many expressions of commiseration in reference to all the Crawleys.
But the commiseration which he had felt for himself had been different from this, and had mostly visited him at times when that other pity was for the moment in abeyance.
Not at all; on the contrary, he exclaimed, in a tone of commiseration and surprise, 'Poor fellow!
There was no commiserationin it now; it was a keen, and even a hostile glance.
His eyes followed Margaret as she rose to obey her uncle’s request, with a curious look of gentle commiseration in them.
No thought of pity for her wrong, or commiseration for her desolation moved me.
I could not help a feeling of deep surprise and commiseration that one of Rebecca's age should have stumbled at it at all, but I essayed to examine it very closely and worked it out for her as slowly as possible.
So I left her, less with a feeling of commiseration for her than with a deep sense of my own pressing burdens and responsibilities.
The exclamations ofcommiseration and indignation which arose around, were abruptly checked by a loud laugh from Rupert.
Terror and Commiseration leave a pleasing Anguish in the Mind; and fix the Audience in such a serious Composure of Thought as is much more lasting and delightful than any little transient Starts of Joy and Satisfaction.
I experienced the greatest commiseration for him, and tried in vain to extend my hands to help him; invisible cords bound all my limbs, and prevented any movement whatsoever.
She speaks with tender commiseration for Agnes rather than with any animosity toward her.
One morning, in an excess of self-commiseration and resentment at their stolid taciturnity, he had spat in the face of a gendarme.
Pedestrians met him with gestures of horrified perplexity and acute commiseration now.
The first offenders that were seized, being tried before county magistrates, met with lenity, from commiseration for their starving condition.
His voice and manner showed such unfeigned anguish that the lady could not but feel real commiseration for him, especially as he appeared to be accepting her view of the case.
She saw that he was absolutely in earnest, and the commiseration which she felt for Horace struggled with the dazzling temptation which this opportunity offered to that strong ambition which was so great an element in her essential nature.
Only your commiseration and humanity can restore the life of a ruined man!
How often, in the silence and darkness of the night, has he poured forth his soul, now in tender commiseration over Jesus crucified by shiners, now over the sinners by whom Jesus had been crucified!
We read of no man who ventured to raise his voice in protest or pity; but on this dreadful occasion as at other times, women were not afraid to cry out in commiseration or praise.
These decrees prove that the Republic, in its commiseration for the unfortunate, consecrates to them a sort of religious care; not only does it relieve the miseries of the people, but it honors their misfortune.
Nothing is more unanimous among historians of the period than expressions of commiseration for the condition of the French people before the Revolution.
Not out of respect for the King, but out of commiseration for the captive man, the soldier rose from the camp cot on which he had been sitting.
He whirled his chair about, and the look of commiseration had gone.
There was such fine, shycommiseration in his face as she rose that she laughed again.
I thank your highness for having, by these terrible words, still more augmented, if that is possible, the sincere commiseration I feel for these unfortunates.
With Rigolette it was not yet love; it was a lively, sincere affection, filled withcommiseration and resolute devotion: a very new sentiment for her, from the bitterness which was joined to it.
Surely such a view of the frequent origin of crime must awaken our commiserationfor its miserable victims, and excite in us a desire to become the defenders of the unprotected.
The poor mother was now in attendance, and her feelings were dreadfully affected, and excited the commiseration of all present.
It was not pity, but rather honor, affection and that deep commiserationof which but few women are capable.
In fact, commiseration must be so much the more energetic, the more intimately the animal, that beholds any kind of distress, identifies himself with the animal that labours under it.
While Antonius and Enanthe are picturing to themselves the consternation into which Petronius will be thrown by the emperor's edict, the object of their commiseration presents himself.
So base an end all iust commiseration Doth take away: yet what we doe now spurne The morning Sunne saw fearefull to the world.
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