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Sentences starting with compassion

Compassion for all is the command of the Prophet. [10]

Sentences ending with compassion

Her own voice was not quite steady as she answered him, and her eyes were filled with compassion. [9]
Of course I was fond of wandering about the workshops, and there they kept a magpie, a quaint little bird, which my mother had fed out of compassion. [10]
His face was very stern, but his eyes, which had flung fire at Mr. Dodd, looked at her with a vast compassion. [9]
I beheld the tortured faces of the wicked gathered on the one side, and my mother on the other amongst the blessed, gazing across the gulf at me with yearning and compassion. [9]
If the Caliban told Rudyard what he knew, there could be but one end to it all; and Jasmine's life, if not ruined, must ever be, even at the best, lived under the cover of magnanimity and compassion. [11]
We pleaded for the tired, ill-treated horses, and tried to show that their faithful service deserved kindness in return, and their hard lot compassion. [5]
The sweetness of the incense sickened her, and as she passed by an old man who threw up his arms in fervent supplication, she looked at him with a glance of compassion. [10]
His face now showed compassion. [11]
For at times she thought that she read in the eyes of some of those who made way for her, friendliness and even compassion. [9]
He did not share the prevalent opinion of Burr's treason, and regarded him as a man so fallen as to be shorn of the power to injure the country, one for whom he could feel nothing but compassion. [4]

Short sentences using compassion

Hear us and have compassion. [5]
But Austen felt compassion. [9]

More example sentences with the word compassion in them

If her father would only receive him, he would find it no easier than she to deny him the compassion he so greatly needed. [10]
By day he would look his dumb compassion in the captain's face; and by night, in the darkness and the driving spray and rain, he would seek out the captain and try to comfort him with caressing pats on the shoulder. [5]
Her eyes sparkled with joy, and her features wore an expression of compassion only at brief intervals, when the youth spoke of the greatest sufferings which he had borne with his uncle. [10]
Then Washington said, with earnest compassion in his voice-- "And so, after coming here, against your inclination, to satisfy your sense of patriotic duty and appease a selfish public clamor, you get absolutely nothing for it. [5]
Didymus was filled with compassion for him, and, though he gladly welcomed Gorgias, he gave him to understand that the leech's absence vexed him. [10]
Exercise now a wider compassion, and reflect that Fate has called you to take care of a hapless creature raving in fever and hard to deal with. [10]
With a throb which was an exquisite pain, she understood now the compassion in Austen's eyes, and she saw so simply and so clearly why he had not told her that her face burned with the shame of her demand. [9]
After that I was welded to my faith, I was theoretically ready to die for it, and I looked down with compassion not unmixed with scorn upon everybody else's faith that didn't tally with mine. [5]
Her own heart was heavy, and compassion for herself and her own fate again had the mastery. [10]
I said it was a fever, and got the family's compassion, and solicitude aroused; so they gave him a teaspoonful of liquid quinine and it set his vitals on fire. [5]
Warm compassion seized upon the tender-hearted young widow, and her own eyes grew dim. [10]
Yet she was touched by his compassion and thoughtfulness. [11]
For the first time compassion mingled with his feelings for Ledscha. [10]
Out of compassion, then, a decent spear was offered him, but he declined, and said, "spears were useless to men of science. [5]
Many people pity them, and I always did it myself and never charged anything; but it is doubtful if this compassion is valued. [5]
We learn from them to recognize all sorts of queer tendencies in minds supposed to be sane, so that we have nothing but compassion for a large class of persons condemned as sinners by theologians, but considered by us as invalids. [6]
The compassion of the rude state is neither ostentatious nor dilating: nor does it insult its object by the exaction of impossible conditions. [4]
It is true that these dear creatures are all compassion for every form of human woe, and anxious to alleviate all human misfortunes. [6]
I knew his story well, and so I knew how to interpret the compassion that was in his face when he bade me farewell. [5]
Perhaps the wild storm of applause, the mingled cries of horror, compassion and thanksgiving that went up from the assembled thousands once more reached her ear--but she dived head foremost to rise no more. [10]
True, resentment did stir within me as it does in every woman whose lover scorns her; but the misfortune that befell you speedily transformed resentment into compassion, and fanned the old flames anew. [10]
These 'vagaries' were soon on exhibition before them; but they only moved their compassion and their sorrow, not their mirth. [5]
Therefore, and because she was a dependent, Miss Monflathers had a great dislike to Miss Edwards, and was spiteful to her, and aggravated by her, and, when she had compassion on little Nell, verbally fell upon and maltreated her as we have already seen. [12]
Was it compassion she read in them, on this that should be the happiest of her days? [9]
His face had set, but his eyes held the look that seemed still to express compassion, and what he felt was a sorrow that went to the depths of his nature. [9]
Twice had Dicky saved this Chief Eunuch's life from Ismail's anger, and once had he saved his fortune--not even from compassion, but out of his inherent love of justice. [11]
By-and-by his Majesty said gravely, and with a touch of genuine compassion, though the words themselves were capable of being interpreted ironically-- "Mind not thy mischance, good man; there be others in the world whose identity is denied, and whose claims are derided. [5]
With the only real pity which was at his command, compassion on himself, he rose from the kneeling posture which had become unbearable. [10]
In my present position, however, compassion is far more difficult to bear than ill-will. [10]
He pitied his poor old father; he ached with compassion for him; and he set his teeth and snarled with contempt through them for his own baseness. [8]
In this guise poet, sculptor, or artist might have represented Imagination, the Fairy Tale, Lyric Poetry, the Dream, or Compassion. [10]
One of our people was at last penetrated with something vaguely akin to compassion, may be, for he looked out through the gratings at the guardian officer, pacing to and fro, and said: "Say, Mickey, this shrimp's goin' to die. [5]
His glance was penetrating, yet here again she seemed to read compassion. [9]
The ardent, long-cherished passion which had brought the young knight full of hope to Ratisbon had changed to compassion. [10]
When the Saviour passed there, she came out, full of womanly compassion, and spoke pitying words to him, undaunted by the hootings and the threatenings of the mob, and wiped the perspiration from his face with her handkerchief. [5]
What had come over the poor, suffering youth whom he, Timon, had escorted to the Circus out of sheer compassion? [10]
So long as one still has a doublet left compassion is in no haste, but when the last shirt is stripped from the body charity--thank the saints!--moves faster. [10]
There is but one antidote to hatred, and that is pity; it was with the eager compassion of a woman's heart that Melissa marked every movement of the imperial murderer, as soon as she recognized his sufferings, and when their eyes had met. [10]
Then they stood on the bank shivering, and so chagrined and so grieved, that they merited holiest compassion. [5]
There was no offending magnanimity, no lofty compassion in his blameless eyes, but a human something which took no account of the years that the locust had eaten, the old mad, bad years, the wrong and the shame of them. [11]
Then a bandage of soiled rags was put on in a cleverly careless way which would allow the hideous ulcer to be seen, and move the compassion of the passer-by. [5]
The patronizing compassion of Mrs. Horn for the Leightons filled him with indignation toward her, toward himself. [8]
With that patronage of compassion which we use towards those who are unfortunate and humble, I was about to say to her, "My poor woman! [11]
He was full of compassion for my coat. [5]
She listened eagerly, now with compassion, and now showing her white teeth in amusement. [9]
No, it had not proclaimed her an intruder, though it may have been ready to do so the moment before her appearance; for there was a note of surprise in it--surprise and compassion. [9]
Yet, at heart, no man loved his kind more genuinely, or with deeper compassion, than Mark Twain, perhaps for its very weaknesses. [5]
In this silent night there was broken down any barrier that may have stood between Lepage and his complete compassion. [11]
No, I keep my news; you keep your compassion. [5]
She turned and looked through her tears at his face that was all compassion. [9]
What he really longed for was their sympathy; for a man who is able to walk round quite ruthlessly on the feelings of others often has very tender feelings of his own, easily lacerated, and eagerly responsive to the caresses of compassion. [8]
You yourself look like a kind-hearted man; but for the future--if you are as just as you are kind--find out to whom you are speaking before you talk of the compassion of the Moslems! [10]
The Master never let the sin hinder his compassion for the sinner. [4]
Whoever came too late must go without, unless Aunt Barbara took compassion on him in the kitchen. [10]
She had been kind, she had been generous, she had in the past few months given service unstinted; but it was more as her own cure for her own ills than yearning compassion for all those who were distressed "in mind, body, or estate. [11]
She could find it in her to pause in compassion for this poor lady, more wronged than herself had been. [11]
But he turned it about with a sort of grave compassion, pointed out two or three blemishes, and said that I, being so recently arrived, could not be expected to know where to supply myself. [5]
I think he is sorry for Mr. Parker, and I think Mr. Parker is sorry for him; and no doubt this compassion is good for both of them. [5]
All the compassion in me was aroused in his behalf. [5]
That smile was in itself a refutation of motive on Austen's part which no words could have made more emphatic; it had in it (unconsciously, too) compassion for and understanding of the Honourable Hilary's mood and limitations. [9]
He led the horse to the roadside and set it to cropping the grass; then he undressed and put his clothes in the buggy, petted the horse a moment to secure its compassion and its loyalty, then hurried to the stream. [5]
Moral--Honesty, affection, compassion, hope, faith, meekness, temperance. [5]
He has placed himself beyond the pale of the compassion which I might have felt even for an enemy after such a frightful blow. [10]
And Joan forgave him; forgave him out of a heart that knew nothing but forgiveness, nothing but compassion, nothing but pity for all that suffer, let their offense be what it might. [5]
Again she called him, and with such deep anguish in her voice, which was harsh and shrill with terror, that the young officer looked at her with extreme compassion. [10]
This compassion kept him from becoming hard, but it would also preserve him to hourly sacrifice--Prometheus chained to his rock. [11]
Pontius looked after her with compassion and sympathy. [10]
Joan was on her knees again straightway, and said: "Then, O gentle King, if out of your compassion you will speak the word, I pray you give commandment that my village, poor and hard pressed by reason of war, may have its taxes remitted. [5]
With sincere compassion he saw how her face blanched at his information that, owing to the pressure of duties which the commencement of the war imposed upon him, his Majesty would be unable to visit her here. [10]
In agonized doubt he looked down at the youth's pallid features, and deep, sorrowful compassion filled his mind. [10]
Moved with compassion, he dismounted, to try to do something for the greybeard. [10]
Why can't you have a little compassion? [8]
Warwick was a hard man, a rude, coarse man, a man without compassion. [5]
Cruel and infinitely happy little woman, filled with compassion, who brought delicacies in the making of which she had spent precious hours, and which Honora could not eat! [9]
For him, who had relied on "Fortune," and behaved like a fool, they felt no pity, no compassion, they would not lend their aid. [10]
Through Quijada he had learned everything which concerned her and the Emperor Charles, and this had transformed his former love for Barbara, which was by no means dead, into tender compassion. [10]
Howbeit, when I had heard the same tale again and again it ceased from touching me so deeply; so that at last, instead of such deep compassion, it moved me only to dull gloom and, I will confess, to unspeakable weariness. [10]
But, as I had compassion on his infirmities, and thought he might have learnt no better, I have managed to bring him back to you. [12]
Meanwhile tears of genuine compassion flowed from her eyes and, with passionate vehemence, she declared that no power in the world should keep her from him. [10]
Hermas felt compassion for the weeping Miriam. [10]
What share compassion for his unprecedentedly sorrowful fate had in this extravagantly laudatory and cordial greeting, he did not ask; he only felt with a throbbing heart that he now stood upon a summit which he had scarcely ventured to hope ever to attain. [10]
To-day, for the first time, she noticed two deep lines that anxiety had furrowed between his eyes and lips, and full of tender compassion, went behind him, laid her hands on his cheeks and kissed him on the forehead. [10]
Sincere compassion was expressed, in which the Bishop of Arras joined, meanwhile glancing through the somewhat lengthy document. [10]
Nor was it etiquette for a judge to lay his own hands in chastisement on contemptuous persons, though Justice at Danville had more compassion than her sisters in older communities upon human failings. [9]
As for me, each time when I came home from my grand-uncle's with pale cheeks she would forbid me ever to cross his threshold more: but when his bidding was brought me she likewise was moved to compassion, and suffered me to obey. [10]
Sometimes the party drove, extending their explorations miles among the hills, exhilarated by the sparkling air, excited by the succession of lovely changing prospects, bestowing their compassion upon the summer boarders in the smartly painted boarding-houses, and comparing the other big hotels with their own. [4]
Cauchon was not distinguished for compassion, but he now gave proof that he had it in his character. [5]
Majesty, whose nature demands that people should look up to it, shuns the downward glance of compassion. [10]
I. Moral-Honesty, affection, compassion, hope, faith, meekness, temperance. [5]
Love, Hate, Charity, Compassion, Avarice, Benevolence, and so on. [5]
A murmur of compassion ran through the crowd; for they loved their dying king, and manifested openly and gladly the sympathy so usually felt for young lives from whom a brilliant future has been snatched by disease. [10]
Hasn't it any compassion for those little creature? [5]
And withal, such compassion for my stupidity, too, in not being able to understand my own language. [5]
A look of compassion came into the old man's face. [11]
Ann, in her compassion and thankfulness, had truly learnt to love her, and she now led me to perceive that she was in many ways a right wise and good woman. [10]
As Dormy Jamais closed the door, he looked back to where the coffin lay, and in the compassion of fools he repeated Guida's words: "Poor Philip! [11]
She was so close to him--and yet how far he was from guessing the desires of a heart which beat with compassion for him! [10]
Now the older citizens of a new territory look down upon the rest of the world with a calm, benevolent compassion, as long as it keeps out of the way--when it gets in the way they snub it. [5]
All day people came to inquire, chief among them Mr. Devlin, whose big heart split itself in humanity and compassion. [11]
And the compassion bore within it a sense of comfort which she could not explain, or perhaps would not inquire into. [10]

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