Now imperishable valor was to lead to a tragedy of misunderstanding.
Somehow his blind questioning raised the prairie tragedy in her mind.
Then he continued-- "It was the year before I met you that the tragedy occurred.
It would be a bad night's work if a tragedy were to happen here.
The tragedy had now been played out to the bitterest end.
The whole of this appalling tragedy had been enacted in a mere flash of time; with such lightning celerity indeed, that Campian, standing outside, could hardly realise that it had actually happened.
They would have heard nothing of the tragedy on the railway line, and would be momentarily expecting the return of the household.
Thus for about ten days had life in Upward's camp held on its way just as though no narrow escape of grim tragedy had thrown the visitor into its midst.
Of the old days she dared not even think--and, since this tragedy had come between, they seemed so far away.
Now he could allow himself to think--to dwell upon those last days before the tragedy that had forced him into captivity and peril and exile.
Like all men of his type, Lenine was intensely emotional and this tragedy in his life made a deep impression on him and was probably one of the chief factors in determining him to devote his whole career to the revolutionary movement.
But what made Lenine more determined in his revolutionary activities was a tragedy which happened in the family when he was only seventeen years of age.
The tragedy in the box turned play and players to the most unsubstantial of phantoms.
This tragedy instantly threw the whole city into a wild frenzy of insurrection.
Euripides and Sophocles each wrote a tragedy having the sacrifice of Polyxena for the subject.
The celebrated hero of Corneille's tragedy of the Cid.
Senator Conkling's career at the bar was most successful, and there was universal sorrow when his life ended in the tragedy of the great blizzard.
The tragedy of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln was followed by the most pathetic incident of American life--his funeral.
Reynolds was exercising a higher faculty when he designed Comedy and Tragedy contending for Garrick, than when he merely took a likeness of that actor.
This little domestic tragedy caused great and lasting grief to the principal sufferer, and could not but cast a gloom over the whole party.
But he sent him off along with the others, and was glad to see that the crowd of townspeople went with his guard, listening eagerly to the details of the suspected tragedy and the subsequent hunt.
Tragedy twists her features, strikes unnatural lights in her eyes.
And--she leant back in her chair, covering her face with her hands as though the blow were an unbearable tragedy to her--he had said that he would take the place back.
There's a little tragedy behind us," said the woman, leaning forward, speaking under her breath to one of her companions.
She must go away--away from London--away from every chance incident that might fling back in her face the tragedy of her existence.
This then is the Tragedy which, like some insect in the heart of the rose, had eaten its way into the romance of Sally Bishop.
It was this instinct, the sixth sense in Sally, that had cast her mind forward, flung it beyond herself into the future, where she saw the Tragedy that awaited her.
The great tragedy lies in the fact that they are left to blame themselves.
The cold, the want of food, and the harassing attacks of the people along the route made that retreat the most signal military tragedy on record.
Corneille, who had gained renown by the great tragedy of The Cid in Richelieu's time, found a worthy successor in Racine, the most distinguished perhaps of French tragic poets.
M221 A similartragedy may have been enacted over the human representative of Balder in Norway.
I know of no tragedy which comes nearer to this charming and bloody catastrophe than Cleomenes, where the curtain covers five principal characters dead on the stage.
I am obliged to you--I have a tragedyfor your house, Mr Marplay.
See from afar a theatre arise; There ages, yet unborn, shall tribute pay To the heroick actions of this day; Then buskin tragedy at length shall chuse Thy name the best supporter of her muse.
This tragedy of yours, Mr Fustian, I observe to be emblematical; do you think it will be understood by the audience?
Nor is the Moral of this excellent tragedy less noble than the Fable; it teaches these two instructive lessons, viz.
Let us now proceed to a regular examination of the tragedy before us, in which I shall treat separately of the Fable, the Moral, the Characters, the Sentiments, and the Diction.
Excuse me, sir, I know the deference due to tragedy better.
Now, sir, for my second act; my tragedy consists but of three.
Mr Sneerwell, be easy; 'tis but one short act before my tragedy begins; and that I hope will make you amends for what you are to undergo before it.
Of that tragedy of the world's sin and sorrow they would ever be conscious.
There is Jude the Obscure now, a masterpiece of heart-bowing tragedy that.
It was Mr. Smith who discovered the omission, and he, too, who had made me feel the full tragedy of it.
In a letter to Twichell Clemens presents the tragedy in a few vivid paragraphs.
The tragedy of the reign was the loss of the 'Blanche Nef.
But it is not from such a village tragedy as this; it is not from its retired situation, its Arcadian peacefulness, its embowering trees and hidden hermit-like beauties of natural scenery, that the vale of Mawgan derives its peculiar interest.
Anon, the guide's talk changes from tragedy to comedy.
Mardi is a tragedy of heaven, Moby Dick a tragedy of hell, and Pierre a tragedy of the world we live in.
And something in him always transmuted into ultimate friendship the sentimental chaos, where comedy and tragedy clashed at the crisis.
And yet it flashes with tragedy and implicates grim spiritual struggle without tearing any passion to tatters.
How well the Cardinal had managed the tragedy which had parted two noble hearts!
She had drawn nearer to him, and for the first time since the commencement of this terrible tragedy of errors, one corner of that veil of impenetrable mystery was lifted from before her eyes.
That fatal night, when the Marquis de Suarez was killed, a woman was seen to fly from that part of the Palace where the tragedy had just taken place.
A drama of biting intensity, a tragedy of inflexible purpose and relentless result.
Slavery had nothing at all to do with that struggle between the North and the South, the dramatis personae in the tragedy of 1861.
The Beauchamp-Sharp tragedy of 1825 was the one Kentucky event that kindled the imaginations of more alien writers than any other happening in our history.
His articles upon the Goebel tragedy were really State papers of importance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tragedy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
