What sight is sadder than that which shows man degraded, or woman fallen?
Should I leave her sick and helpless, even freedom, shared with thee, Would besadder far than bondage, lonely toil, and stripes to me.
Are sadder warnings spoken, From quenched hearths, where thy exiled sons Their household gods have broken.
From this glittering lie my vision Takes a broader, sadder range, Full before me have arisen Other pictures dark and strange; From the parlor to the prison must the scene and witness change.
They gazed at my sombre face with an intentness and anxiety that made me sadder than ever I was in all my life.
But, alas, my friend, now indeed I am put to it; for I must confess to you a sadder and deeper anxiety.
Indeed, the more she speculated upon it the sadder it appeared.
The sorrowful strokes rang hollow and mournful over the land, sadder to Barron's ear than fall of earth-clod on coffin-lid.
Mrs. Steadman did not understand that there is a limit even to tears and that Libby Anne in her short years had seen sadder sights than even this.
She rubbed down the pony, gave him his oats and a warm bed, and returned with a sadder heart to the house than when she left it.
How I wish," she continued in a sadder tone, "that I had more faith.
Were I to live till Time itself grew old, The sad sea would be sadderfor those tears.
They have a small garden and fountain, plenty of flowers, and some fruit; but all is on a smaller scale, and sadder than in the convent of the Incarnation.
We have now a sadder tale to tell; one that philanthropists have grieved over so often.
I thought it capable of crimes, undoubtedly, committed under strong temptation or sudden passions; but the black page in man's character which you have opened to me, has made me feel sadder than ever.
From all that appeared, I supposed he had become 'a sadder and a wiser man:' I therefore wished him success in his literary undertakings.
And now, my dear Sir, trifling apart, the gloomy catastrophe of yesterday morning prompts a sadder vein.
Exhuming human bones is melancholy work, but sadder still is the mission of one who disinters the ashes of a woman's love, hope, and faith.
But sadder than these bloody fields of open strife are the dark places of cruelty.
Sadder still, I hear the dark whisperings of those who would destroy the innocent and cast down the simple.
The Divine fiat had gone forth, and hearts were agonized, and looks grew sadder and sadder, as day after day sounded like a knell in our ears the fearful words, "Not materially better.
But far sadder was cold poverty here, for a lady lay on a hard couch before the scantily furnished grate, and her hollow cough, and the oozing blood that saturated her white handkerchief, rendered all words unnecessary.
I would the lovely scene around Might know no sadder sight nor sound.
We all pity the poor princesses who were shut up in towers by bad fairies, the men and women in jails, and the little birds in cages, but Lizzie was a sadder prisoner than any of these.
I think there were few sadder sights in that great city than this innocent prisoner waiting so patiently to be set free.
What can be sadder than this, that people should know thee as Virata's cook, Vallava by name, and therefore one that is sunk in servitude?
What can be sadder to me than miseries so various as these should emaciate me while ye are alive.
Nor could all that Jocelyn said remove her misgivings; and, in consequence, their meeting was sadder than usual.
There is no difficulty in detecting the object of his regards, for her attire is simpler than that of all the glittering dames around her, and of a sadder hue.
Sad is his life, if a conscientious man; sadder still, if not.
Now sadder that lone maiden sighs, Far bitterer tears profane her eyes, Crushed, in the dust her heart's flower lies.
I followed my own wayward will, and Effie's wistful eyes grew sadder as the weeks went by.
In the barouche, behind, is a second face that has been seen under the same tree, but with an expression upon itsadder and more disturbed.
To the pretty bit of bantering Helen's only answer is a sigh, with a sadder expression, as from some fresh pang shooting through her heart.
It is the common refrain of all her sorrowful dirges,--the sadder that no response ever comes to the lonely cry.
Here she laughs quite merrily, as though grief is unknown to her; but a minute later, memory returning, the joy fades from her face, leaving it sadderthan before.
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