When at length he arrived and confronted the chief matron, a less shrewd and sympathetic person than she was would hardly have been impressed in Booker Washington's favour.
I began thinking: What if I should have such a hard time to find a lover that is sympathetic and systematic at the same time?
But I am going to make a sympathetic study of them if they will only stay at home long enough to let me.
This morning I hunted up the ducks for the purpose of trying to get a sympathetic understanding of their view of life.
He feels almost sympathetic with the women whom he has seen.
He was sympathetic and responsive, serious when the occasion called for it, foolish when folly was in order.
Tradition consecrates the loveliness bordering upon Paris to the gaiety to which Gavarni and Mürger are the most sympathetic guides, and none could have been more to Harland's fancy.
Dealing with Feudal themes, but in the manner of the Romantic school, he was the heir of the Troubadours, the sympathetic peer of Byron, and in his translation of Goetz von Berlichingen he laid the first rafters of our bridge to Germany.
The truth of Christianity," he said, "was all written in us already in sympathetic ink.
His letters in reply, tenderly sympathetic and yet rigidly insistent on the duty of forbearance and endurance, availed to avert the threatened catastrophe; but there are sentences which show how bitter the complaints must have been.
Bible awakens it, and you can read"--a sympathetic image but of no great weight as an argument addressed to doubting Thomas.
Three sympatheticobituary notices of the period expressed his softer side.
Giving a prize for superiority often produces jealousy, unkindness, and deep-seated ill-will where the cultivation of a proper natural interest would lead to more kindly and sympatheticrelations between the children.
She scolded about the road and the heat, snubbed all his sympathetic suggestions, and contradicted all his efforts at conversation.
He knew that she was using all her self-control to keep from crying with the pain, and that a single sympathetic word would break down her courage.
Mr Balance put on what he meant for a grave and sympathetic face.
On the top of all that, he had become a thorough Mohammedan in his sympathetic feelings and habits, and quite sincere in his adoption of the cause of the Mahdi.
But a sympathetic touch on the shoulder from Rhoda Polly, one of whose peculiarities was that she understood things without being told, delivered me from my awkwardness.
And she poured into unsophisticated but sympathetic ears all the duplicity, all the treachery, all the insidious cunning and all the serpent-like wisdom of her unscrupulous sex.
Perhaps we did a foolish thing in thus abandoning saint and hungry convert to their sympathetic intercourse.
She poured out a blood-curdling story into semi-sympathetic ears.
The only sympathetic one I know is Beauty and the Beast; and even that is a mere begging of the question, for the Beast was a handsome young nincompoop of a Prince all the time!
Then Jaffery burst into his great laugh and held her hands and looked at her with kindly, sympathetic mirth in his eyes.
A word, no matter how loving, of adverse criticism, a glance even that was not sympathetic would paralyse me, it would shatter my faith in the whole structure I had built up.
She spoke in that insinuating, sympathetictone which in moments of tensity a woman can sometimes take toward a man.
It was not common sense to treat the breaker of laws as if he hadn't broken them or as if his punishment had made him a sympathetic figure.
His face was of the honest, sympathetic cast that quickly reflects the wounding of the feelings.
At length it came to an end, and she looked round her, hoping for a little sympathetic admiration, or at least for expressions of wonder and interest.
It was his own sympathetic link with the widow--ways and means, and the remorseless nature of sheets of paper with columns of figures underneath the horrible word doit.
Certainly neither guessed that another heart, far distant as the crow flies, had felt the stream of his vital, creative thinking, and had thus delicately responded and sent out a sympathetic message of belief.
Now I know that we may go too far in carrying out the precepts of Christianity,' he groaned, when his sympathetic sisters came to console him.
Some exceptionally sympathetic natures might perhaps by instinct have felt the power that had been put into their hands; but it is impossible to say that he was to blame for not feeling it.
She was an analyst, with the lowest view of human nature, and not a sympathetic being entering into the hearts of others by means of her own.
Inez at first proved only a sympathetic spectator, but by the third or fourth day she found herself a distinct part of the working force.
She shuddered as it returned to her even now while sitting beside Armstrong's bed; she shrank from Helen's sympathetic caress and her thoughtful solicitude.
Thus making himself inclusive of all about him, his attitude toward his fellow-man could not be other than sympathetic and appreciative.
His knowledge of her sympathetic and intuitive grasp of his own pet theories gave him confidence to believe that this response would be equally prompt and comprehensive.
It was breathing, not with sympathetic suffering only: it was burning with jealousy.
The reader now probably understands why I looked with sympathetic interest at Arina.
I wonder what her thoughts are, feeling a singular sympathy for her,--for I am in that sympathetic mood which the natural emotion of leaving places and persons one has become fond of, is apt to inspire.
The Church suffers in consequence: her power depended upon her intimate union with the wealthy and dominant class; and she will never be forgiven by those now in power for her sympathetic support of that class in other years.
We must also remind ourselves that these rites are generally based on a belief in imitative or sympathetic magic.
The most recent investigations by the most eminent ethnologists confirm the view that a great number of ritualistic ceremonies are founded on the principles of imitative orsympathetic magic.
The Elephant, grateful for the sympathetic inquiry, made reply: "I have wagered my life with the Tiger and lost the wager.
Hunting rites are numerous and for the most part rest on the same conception which we have noticed before in relation to other rites, namely the belief in the power of imitative or sympathetic magic.
It works, but is it not the theory of a man whose will is weak, as we say, or whose sympathetic nature has been developed at the expense of his self-regulative?
An accomplished Greek scholar, for many years a careful and sympathetic student of Xenophon, and possessing a rare mastery of English idiom, he was unusually well equipped for the work of a translator.
His speech important again for Xenophon's sympathetic knowledge of children and also of the hard-working poor.
Fitzjames was therefore not sympathetic in the sense of having an imagination ready to place him at other men's point of view.
I have, I hope, said enough to indicate his sympathetic interest in Indian matters and the work of Indian officials.
He travelled a little: an intelligent, sympatheticand observant tourist.
Were there not in her womanly feelings that could be cherished and fostered by sympathetic companionship?
He was sympatheticto the travel-worn Bulgars, and over a bottle or two of wine they confided to him their mission, and its lack of result.
She had the sympathetic notion to enter the Principality attired in the costume of an ordinary Bulgarian woman, and it became her girlish beauty charmingly.
