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Sentences ending with sympathies
- The king's judgments wrought frequent injustices, but it was merely the fault of his training, his natural and unalterable sympathies. [5]
- You can see what a piece of work it would make of their sympathies. [6]
- Mark Twain's mother was a woman of sturdy character and with a keen sense of humor and tender sympathies. [5]
- But whatever renders the imagination more vivid and strengthens the habit of recalling and comparing past impressions, will make the conscience more sensitive, and may even somewhat compensate for weak social affections and sympathies. [1]
- The woman sees that there is nothing impertinent in our cursory inquiry into her domestic concerns, but, I fancy, knows that we are genial travelers, with human sympathies. [4]
- The University decided that it was blasphemy for Joan to say that her saints spoke French and not English, and were on the French side in political sympathies. [5]
- You couldn't have saved him by making him an object of pity, by appealing to our sympathies. [11]
- My wife and I join in affectionate remembrances and greetings to yourself and your aunt, and in the sincere tender of our sympathies. [5]
- Her shy dependency, her innocent inquisitiveness, had searched out his remotest sympathies. [11]
- I set out for Philadelphia on the morrow, Tuesday the twenty-third, there beyond question to meet my Captain, once more united to his brave wounded companions under that roof which covers a household of as noble hearts as ever throbbed with human sympathies. [6]
More example sentences with the word sympathies in them
- During the past year no differences of any kind have arisen with any of these republics, and on the other hand, their sympathies with the United States are constantly expressed with cordiality and earnestness. [7]
- My sympathies are with the South. [9]
- My sympathies are with the Russian revolution, of course. [5]
- Were his sympathies with the daughter? [9]
- He turned away with a feeling of relief, however, for this gossip with the Huguenot maid would no doubt interest her, give new direction to her warm sympathies, which if roused in one thing were ever more easily roused in others. [11]
- French names they were, but their interests and sympathies were English. [5]
- All her sympathies were excited by the thought of this forlorn stranger in his solitude, but she felt the impossibility of giving any complete expression to them. [6]
- He knows that we are before an audience having strong sympathies southward, by relationship, place of birth, and so on. [7]
- No doubt she was a little frightened and a good deal bewildered, and that her sympathies were warmly excited for a friend to whom she had been brought so near, and whose loneliness she saw and pitied. [6]
- It takes a very masculine man for that--a man who combines the most subtle and refined sympathies with the most forceful purposes and the most ferruginous will-power. [8]
- Had she not turned Dauphin's human sympathies into a crime? [11]
- Can you not trust that it will be a prevailing force, if your sympathies are with it, without demanding a revelation of the entire scheme of the universe? [9]
- The old woman told the story of his young love and his joyous bridal with a tenderness which had something more, even, than her family sympathies to account for it. [6]
- I am responsible to the Third House only, and I hope to be permitted to make it exceedingly warm for that body, without caring whether the sympathies of the public and the Church be enlisted in their favor, and against myself, or not. [5]
- It is needless to say that the sympathies of all the good people of the village, residents and strangers, were actively awakened for the young man about whom they knew so little and conjectured so much. [6]
- With two or three exceptions he copies none of those devotional poems which have attracted devout souls.--His poetical sympathies are shown in the fact that one third of the selections are from the seventeenth century. [6]
- That sort of thing would corral their sympathies, the showman said. [5]
- That sort of thing rouses Mrs. Clemens's sympathies, easily; the only trouble is to keep them up. [5]
- On the contrary, they must have had many sympathies, and it must have cost the secretary pain, as he said it did, to be forced to communicate with Mr. Moran instead of with Mr. Motley. [6]
- Miss Vance was there because she united in her catholic sympathies or ambitions the objects of the fashionable people and of the aesthetic people who met there on common ground. [8]
- It may be that he is over-wrought by his sympathies, but it may not be so. [5]
- Yet, as her sympathies were, to some extent, rationalised by stern fact and everlasting custom, her opposition to some things became more active and more fervid. [11]
- As usual, Irving's sympathies were with the unfortunate. [4]
- It was a Sunday afternoon, and Puss was entertaining, as usual, a whole parlor-full of young men, whose leanings and sympathies Stephen divined while taking off his coat in the hall. [9]
- It was a strange position for me--clerk to the recorder--and dangerous if my sympathies and the late employment should be found out. [5]
- The great majority South, as well as North, have human sympathies, of which they can no more divest themselves than they can of their sensibility to physical pain. [7]
- New sympathies, new sources of encouragement, if not of inspiration, have opened themselves before me and cheated the least promising season of life of much that seemed to render it dreary and depressing. [6]
- My sympathies were soon with the Reformers in the Pretoria jail, with their friends, and with their cause. [5]
- Honora's heart was soft: her sympathies, as we know, easily aroused. [9]
- Woman's happiness depends so much upon the continuation of the surroundings and sympathies in which she is bred. [4]
- Men begin to regard the position of woman in another light than they used to do; and a few men, whose sympathies are fine and whose sense of justice is strong, think and speak of it with a candour that commands my admiration. [14]
- He was a plain man; his sympathies were with the people; he had what is roughly known as "horse-sense," and he was homely. [4]
- Or was it only a swift adaptation to circumstances, an adroit means of working upon the sympathies of her father, who, she could see, was in a quandary? [11]
- Trembling young ladies of Union sympathies presented colors to regiments on the Arsenal Green, or at Jefferson Barracks, or at Camp Benton to the northwest near the Fair Grounds. [9]
- This virtue, one of the noblest with which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they are extended to all sentient beings. [1]
- He is more of a man, he lives in a higher plane of thought and of enjoyment, the more his communications are extended with his fellows and the wider his sympathies are. [4]
- His sympathies did not seem so lively as the Doctor could have wished. [6]
- Dr. Leigh was no doubt a good woman, but he didn't know much about woman visitors and that sort; their sympathies were apt to run away with them, and he should prefer at present to have the fund wholly under Father Damon's control. [4]
- These things can never be important to the elephant; they are nothing to him; he cannot shrink his sympathies to the microscopic size of them. [5]
- Our sympathies, however, must be with Honora, who has paid the price for heaven, and who discovers that by marriage she has merely joined the ranks of the Great Unattached. [9]
- The more a man's sympathies and emotions are active, the less is he the philosopher. [11]
- No doubt a man with a torpid mind, if his social affections and sympathies are well developed, will be led to good actions, and may have a fairly sensitive conscience. [1]
- My eagerness to make the acquaintance of such an associate in my sympathies and my labors may be well imagined. [6]
- If we ourselves live in fulness of content, it is well to be reminded that thousands of our fellow-creatures undergo a different lot; it is well to have sleepy sympathies excited, and lethargic selfishness shaken up. [14]
- How could he know what comes from a woman's wavering sympathies, what from her inborn coquetry, and what from love itself? [11]
- The scholar who is cultured by books, reflection, travel, by a refined society, consorts with his kind, and more and more removes himself from the sympathies of common life. [4]
- The list of injuries was too fresh in Mr. Flint's mind--even that last conversation with Victoria, in which she had made it plain that her sympathies were with Austen. [9]
- The sudden spectacle, in this condition, of a self-controlled woman of the world was infinitely distressing to Hodder, whose sympathies were even more sensitive than (in her attempt to play upon them) she had suspected. [9]
- Mrs. Horn believed in the world and in society and its unwritten constitution devoutly, and she tolerated her niece's benevolent activities as she tolerated her aesthetic sympathies because these things, however oddly, were tolerated--even encouraged--by society; and they gave Margaret a charm. [8]
- It was as if he were counsel in one of those cases when, the minds and sympathies of judge and jury at first arrayed against him, he had irresistibly cloven his way to their judgment--not stealing away their hearts, but governing, dominating their intelligences. [11]
- He, too, had his human sympathies, but in the distance his imagination pictured the final ceremony, and how he himself should figure in a spectacle where the usual centre piece of attraction would be wanting,--perhaps his own services uncalled for. [6]
- Man prompted by his conscience, will through long habit acquire such perfect self-command, that his desires and passions will at last yield instantly and without a struggle to his social sympathies and instincts, including his feeling for the judgment of his fellows. [1]
- The bids went higher and higher, as the sympathies of the pioneers awoke and expanded, till at last the sack was knocked down to a mill man at two hundred and fifty dollars, and his check taken. [5]
- Worded right, if he's a man--got any of the feelings of a man, sympathies and all that, he'll be here inside of twenty-four hours. [5]
- As long as he was in the world was it right that he should isolate himself from any of its sympathies and trials? [4]
- You know you hate boarding; and if we went there I should have them on my sympathies the whole time. [8]
- If the earl had had wit enough to-- However, there is no occasion for my working my sympathies up on his account. [5]
- Affected by the gloom of the place, the two visitors at once prepared for their return journey, but the manner of the tailorman's death arrested their sympathies, touched the humanity in them. [11]
- Sometimes Anne would gather together such young ladies of her acquaintance from the neighbor hood and the city as their interests and sympathies permitted to waltz with a Union officer, and there would be a little dance. [9]
- Of course my father's sympathies (and mine too) are all with Justice and Europe against Tyranny and Russia. [14]
- It was hardly fair, however, to leave Alminy Cutterr waiting while this piece of natural history was telling.--As she spoke of little Jo, who had been "haaf eat up" by Tige, she could not contain her sympathies, and began to cry. [6]
- Shakespeare has put everything into his plays and poems, swept the whole range of human sympathies and passions, and at times is inspired by the sweetest spirit that ever man had. [4]
- It is easy enough to swear off allegiance to a sovereign or a government, and to take on in intention new political obligations, but to separate one's self from the sympathies into which he was born is quite another affair. [4]
- Therefore I am emboldened to ask the assistance and encouragement of all whose sympathies are with Progress and Reform. [5]
- All this excited Dada's sympathies to the highest pitch, but she listened with even greater attention when her gossip began to speak of Marcus, his mother, and his brother. [10]
- No shrewdly-worded history could have brought the myths and shadows of that old dreamy age before us clothed with human flesh and warmed with human sympathies so vividly as did this poor little unsentient vessel of pottery. [5]
- In those days Clemens's sympathies were with the South. [5]
- It is all China, now, and my sympathies are with the Chinese. [5]
- But here the Celebrity fell short, if my client's emotions were not pitched in the same key as those of other people, who shall say that his heart was not as large or his sympathies as wide as many another philanthropist? [9]
- The General had called at the Manor, and paid his respects to the Seigneur, who received him abstractedly if not coolly, but Madelinette had captured his imagination and his sympathies. [11]
- Hats, handkerchiefs and bonnets were frantically waved above the massed heads in the courtroom, and three tremendous cheers and a tiger told where the sympathies of the court and people were. [5]
- Mrs. Farquhar declared at once that she had no scruples about going up Washington, commonplace as the trip was, for her sympathies were now all with the common people. [4]
- And she saw, as in a momentary vision of herself, that the things that once absorbed her and stirred her sympathies were now measurably indifferent to her. [4]
- I believe there are unexplained facts in the region of sympathies and antipathies which will repay study with a deeper insight into the mysteries of life than we have dreamed of hitherto. [6]
- Because after many appeals to the sympathies of New England, made by strangers of Boston, through the newspapers, and after the establishment of an office there for the reception of moneyed contributions for the Jaffa colonists, One Dollar was subscribed. [5]
- This was quite apart from the fact that she was not so sympathetically companionable to us as she once was, and it was this very attractiveness of the worldly sort, I fancied, that pained her aunt, and marked the separateness of their sympathies. [4]
- Alike the gorgeousness and the squalor of the Orient appealed to his artistic sympathies. [4]
- If his intellectual and moral sympathies have all changed, I wonder if his physical tastes remain, like his appearance, the same. [4]
- Tom noticed this, and it strongly inclined his sympathies toward her in her perilous and unfriended situation. [5]
- All the afternoon and evening of Tuesday, the 29th, the news was flying, and the people of the country-side flocking to Rouen to see the tragedy--all, at least, who could prove their English sympathies and count upon admission. [5]
- This daughter-in-law of an emperor was pretty; she had a kind face; she was without airs; she is known to be full of common human sympathies. [5]
- But it is almost incredible to me now that the class of 1851, with its classic sympathies and its many revolutionary ideas, disappeared in the flood of the world so soon and so silently, causing scarcely a ripple in the smoothly flowing stream. [4]
- The charges are all general: that he has a rebel wife and rebel relations, that he sympathies with rebels, and that he exercises rebel influence. [7]
- Her eye glistened again, as it had shone while she had written of this thing to the British Consul at Cairo, to her father in England, who approved of her sympathies and lamented her actions. [11]
- He had an adventure, once, which sticks fast in my memory as the most pleasantly grotesque that ever touched my sympathies. [5]
- And here is a stranger, become our compatriot in virtue of the warmth of his sympathies, who has accomplished what was not in my power. [6]
- For it was a principle with Captain Clapsaddle not to influence in any way the minds of the young, and he would have deemed it unfair to Mr. Carvel had he attempted to win my sympathies to his. [9]
- It certainly is a note of the kindliness and charity of the maiden mind that its sympathies are so apt to be most strongly excited in the success of the wooer. [4]
- In spite of a momentary embarrassment most unusual in him, the courage of her question made a strong appeal, and his quick sympathies suspected the tragedy behind her apparent calmness. [9]
- Whenever there was a dispute between a noble or gentleman and a person of lower degree, the king's leanings and sympathies were for the former class always, whether he suspected it or not. [5]
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