Use sympathy in a sentence
Sentences starting with sympathy
- Sympathy and sentiment were natural and proper manifestations of human society, but governments were, of necessity, ruled by sterner considerations. [11]
- Sympathy for the poor mariner's perils is rot; give it to his wife's hard lines, where it belongs! [5]
- Sympathy for the danger and losses of others forced her own grief and anxiety into the background and, without pausing to think, she slipped on her shoes, snatched her shawl from the chest, and ran downstairs, shouting: "The lightning has struck! [10]
- Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. [1]
- Sympathy gets to be mere snivelling very often. [11]
Sentences ending with sympathy
- The cruelest thing you Yankees did was to force us, who couldn't fight, to go over there for sympathy. [4]
- Perhaps the philanthropist would term it sympathy. [4]
- Barbara's cheeks flushed with sympathy. [10]
- If all men will eat onions at all times, they will come into a universal sympathy. [4]
- It was not wholly easy for him to part with her, but the prospect of riding out into the world with a full purse, highly honoured by his imperial master, gratified the old adventure-loving heart so much that he could feel no genuine sympathy. [10]
- Yet among them were figures which arrested our attention and sympathy. [6]
- Every time he went sailing over one of those abysses my breath stood still, and when he grabbed for the perch he was going for, I grabbed too, in sympathy. [5]
- At last she went on, her face turned away from the great kindly blue eyes bent upon her, from the face flushed with honourable human sympathy. [11]
- It seemed to Venters that Lassiter grew more and more absorbed in his study of Bess, and that he lost his coolness in some strange, softening sympathy. [13]
- Such is the universal need of human sympathy. [4]
Short sentences using sympathy
- Brown, John, sympathy with, 211. [6]
- And such sympathy! [9]
- Sympathy! [9]
Sentences containing sympathy two or more times
- True, he had the manifest sympathy of the house but he had the house's silence, too, which was even worse than its sympathy. [5]
- His eye fell on Pierre's large and striking figure, and in the expression with which he frowned and looked away Pierre thought he detected sympathy and a desire to conceal that sympathy. [2]
- If mastery of material means a knowledge of the life, and a sympathy with it, then my friends are justified; for I have always had an intense sympathy with, and admiration for, French Canadian life. [11]
- The young ladies, and other people, crowded around and showed a great deal of sympathy, but that did not help matters; for my friends said they did not want sympathy, they wanted a back alley and solitude. [5]
More example sentences with the word sympathy in them
- Thank you for your sympathy, ma'am. [9]
- It is easy, you say, for an outsider to preach waiting, patience, forbearance, sympathy, helpfulness. [4]
- I should have yielded myself without stint to the sympathy which this meeting might well call forth. [6]
- In short, it would be much more agreeable if it extended to its own members something of the consideration and sympathy that it gives to those it regards as its inferiors. [4]
- But what a wonderful motherliness and impulsive sympathy steadied by common sense did Al'mah the singing-woman show! [11]
- They were fellow-creatures with whom one did not naturally enter into active sympathy, and the principal point of interest about the fiacre and its arrangements was whether the horse was fondest of trotting or of walking. [6]
- The physician noticed, with warm sympathy, how deeply this mysterious expectation had influenced her excitable nature, ever torn by varying emotions, and the excellent man was ready to aid her as a friend and intercessor. [10]
- We disclaim sympathy with him in practical action. [7]
- All Katharina's sympathy with Heliodora had died finally in the course of the past, moonless night. [10]
- Go whither you will, stay away even if I send for you; but"--and here his brow clouded again--"why should I try to be merciful to her from whom I looked for sympathy and kindliness, when she flees from me like the rest? [10]
- I cannot explain why I feel that you have in you elements of growth which will eventually bring you more into sympathy with the point of view I have set forth, but I do feel it. [9]
- But the man who had honoured her with his love was no less a personage than the Emperor Charles, and this circumstance only increased the sympathy which the sisters felt for their much-admired friend. [10]
- The, stout woman, who had been looking on with that intensity of sympathy of which the poor are capable, began waving gently the palm-leaf fan. [9]
- I confess that while I sat there, in an audience so keenly in sympathy with the play--almost a part of it, one might say--I doubted if I understood your people as well as I thought I did when I had been here a week only. [4]
- Gifted hardly knew whether to be pleased with her sympathy, or vexed that she did not take his leaving more to heart. [6]
- At his side, when all was over, she would rest in the grave, and compel the world to remember with respectful sympathy the royal lovers, Antony and Cleopatra. [10]
- In fact, those were very trying days for him-days when he needed all the private sympathy he could get, and to be shielded, in his great fight with the conspiracy, from petty private annoyances. [4]
- When he gets well and plump, I know he will forgive me if I confess that I could not help smiling in the midst of my sympathy for him. [6]
- The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. [1]
- Then, if ever, we allow ourselves to go out to others in sympathy expressed by gifts and good wishes. [4]
- That the age, was unable to separate him from itself, and see his great stature, is probable; that it enjoyed him with a sympathy to which we are strangers there is no doubt. [4]
- Her moral sense was tolerant and elastic, and feminine sympathy of this sort is a grateful cushion. [4]
- Even public sympathy was roused in behalf of Sturgis. [5]
- Poor Mr. Stoker was now helpless, faithfully and tenderly waited upon by his own wife, who had regained her health and strength,--in no small measure, perhaps, from the great need of sympathy and active aid which her unfortunate husband now experienced. [6]
- The proud conqueror was not displeased at these signs of sympathy, and turning to the Athenian: "I think, my Greek friend" he said, "we may consider our wrongs as avenged. [10]
- In Paris Margaret was ill--very ill; and this misfortune caused for a time a revival of all the old affection, in sympathy with a disappointment which awoke in our womankind all the tenderness of their natures. [4]
- In reality it was her sympathy he craved, and such an interpretation of himself as he chose to present to her. [9]
- He felt her warm tears on his face, and as he looked up into her kind, faithful eyes, brimming over with tears of sympathy and regret, his heart melted to tenderness. [10]
- Calvinism: William Emerson's want of sympathy with, 11, 12; outgrown, 51; predestination, 230; saints, 298; spiritual influx, 412. [6]
- It is a want of sympathy of the heart, or it is a lack of intelligence and broad-minded interest in affairs of the world and in other people. [4]
- Unfortunately, there was very little chance of showing sympathy in its active form for a gentleman who kept himself so much out of the way as the master of the Dudley Mansion. [6]
- As for Mr. Vandewaters and Gracia Raglan, Lady Lawless was not very sure that her delicate sympathy was certain of reward. [11]
- Nothing will bring us into this desirable mutual understanding except sympathy and personal contact. [4]
- Berg hurriedly jumped up, kissed her hand, asked about her health, and, swaying his head from side to side to express sympathy, remained standing beside her. [2]
- He had grown up out of sympathy with his father, but he had never until now began to analyze the reasons for it. [9]
- The mother, brought up an Episcopalian, conformed to the religious forms and worship of her husband, but she was never in sympathy with his rigid views. [4]
- The old simple untutored sympathy was in her face. [11]
- It was not until later reflection that he realized Mr. Bentley might, by an intuitive sympathy, a depth of understanding, have drained something of his state, since the incidents which followed were to be accounted for on no other grounds. [9]
- So he paused until all was quiet, then his face grew grave and assumed an impressive aspect, and at once all faces sobered in sympathy and took on a look of wondering and expectant interest. [5]
- He fixed his twinkling glance on Melissa, to invite her sympathy in his successful trick, but her appearance startled him. [10]
- But we here trench on the subjects of sympathy and fidelity, to which I shall recur. [1]
- Showing that the town has grown in sympathy with human needs and eccentricities, and is not the work of a surveyor, the streets are irregular, forming picturesque angles and open spaces. [4]
- There had been, too, in the look the quick sympathy for bereavement of the poor. [9]
- Her eyes had told him eloquently enough, first her deep sympathy, and afterward the emotions which so passionately stirred her heart. [10]
- I had begun to write, and every strong emotion was uttered in verses, which I showed to the companions from whom I could expect sympathy. [10]
- He was listened to with sympathy and respect--but nothing was done! [9]
- His original kindness to the woman had given him many troubled hours at home, for Madame Dauphin had construed his human sympathy into the dark and carnal desires of the heart, and his truthful eloquence had made his case the worse. [11]
- He went straight to the Foreign Office for news, hoping against hope, was received by Count Mensdorff, who merely came forward and laid his arm about his shoulder with an intense sympathy beyond words. [6]
- It was easy to see the direction of the sympathy of Pipi Valley. [11]
- His sympathy seemed to say to the living, "I wonder how soon you'll come into my hands," and to the dead, "What a pity you can only die once--and second-hand coffins so hard to get! [11]
- This enlightenment as to Lise's condition and the possibility it suggested in regard to herself brought with it an overwhelming sympathy which at first she fiercely resented then yielded to. [9]
- If we went to him and exhibited our interest in his condition, he always purred in recognition of our sympathy. [4]
- The lad spoke to her, giving expression to his sympathy, and she accepted it; but she said such strange things, and answered him so utterly at random, that he began to fear that grief had turned her brain. [10]
- It was mentioned to her that he would like to call and see how she was, and she consented,--not with much apparent interest, for she had reasons of her own for not feeling any very deep conviction of his sympathy for persons in sorrow. [6]
- They are supposed to have no sympathy of feeling or interest with those very persons whom it is their object to convince and persuade. [7]
- He seemed instantly to have established a chain of personal sympathy with her. [4]
- At a meeting to express sympathy with the cause of Hungarian freedom, Dr. Todd, Thos. [7]
- When Helen returned to Elsie's bedside, it was with a new and still deeper feeling of sympathy, such as the story told by Old Sophy might well awaken. [6]
- The woman about to become a mother, or with her new-born infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden, or stretches her aching limbs. [3]
- It isn't pleasant to be vilified by rascals who make capital out of vilification, and a man has a right to expect some sympathy from his wife. [9]
- When Beaton came to ask himself this question, he could only perceive that he and Dryfoos had failed to find any ground of sympathy, and had parted in the same dislike with which they had met. [8]
- The philosopher ventured to approach him, and there was warm sympathy in his tone as he asked: "What ails you, Bassianus? [10]
- At the same time, the Scotch affection, the Scotch sympathy with a true and romantic passion, and, above all, the Scotch shrewdness, could be trusted to do what was best under the circumstances. [4]
- So for a time there was no sympathy between the two. [11]
- For the third time in my life, and in the greatest crisis of all, I was feeling the need of Something, of some sustaining and impelling Power that must be presented humanly, possessing sympathy and understanding and love.... [9]
- Before I was through, the fading sympathy had paled to indifference. [5]
- A chill ran through the courtier's strong, corpulent body, and he gazed with mingled sympathy and dread at the blooming human flower associated thus early in plans fraught with danger. [10]
- At first the thought of him had moved her alternately to sympathy and to revolt. [11]
- Latterly he never thought of her without thinking of Ruth, and if he gave the subject any attention, it was probably in an undefined consciousness that, he had her sympathy in his love, and that she was always willing to hear him talk about it. [5]
- The light of those beautiful eyes was like the lustre of ice; in all her features there was nothing of that human warmth which shows that sympathy has reached the soul beneath the mask of flesh it wears. [6]
- He knew him thoroughly, and had watched his development with increasing warmth of sympathy, the more so as many a trait of character which he recognised in Heinz reminded him of his own nature and aspirations at his age. [10]
- Failing to see this, he is isolated, and, wanting his sympathy, the untutored world mocks at his super-fineness and takes its own rough way to rougher ends. [4]
- Father Damon understood this, and he went away profoundly grateful for her forbearance of verbal expression as much as for her sympathy. [4]
- Dr. Mathys regretted this for the sake of the beautiful neglected creature, who had won his sympathy, but it did not surprise him, for duty after duty now filled every hour of Charles's day. [10]
- He forbore from thinking, now, of the looming events which might thrust them apart,--put a physical distance between them,--his anxiety was concerned with the possible snapping of the thread of sympathy which had bound them. [9]
- He dared not think that the expression he caught was one of sympathy, for it changed instantly. [9]
- It seems to think that good-breeding and good form are separable from kindliness and sympathy and helpfulness. [4]
- He believed in things that, as he said himself, "he could get between his fingers;" he had little sympathy with morbid sentimentalities. [11]
- In spite of these traits--perhaps because of them--there was a sympathy between us. [9]
- But I mention these things, not from any sympathy I have with the vegetables named, but to show how hard it is to go contrary to the expectations of society. [4]
- The recipient of these letters sometimes wonders, after reading through one of them, how it is that his young correspondent has managed to fill so much space with her simple message of admiration or of sympathy. [6]
- I am, myself, therefore, fully in sympathy with the psychological investigators. [6]
- After the half-hour there is no more pleasure for you; your attention is all on the man, just as it would be on a tired horse, and necessarily your sympathy is there too. [5]
- He declares that their annoyances, sufferings, mortifications, envies, jealousies, disappointments, dissatisfactions (and so on through the dictionary of disagreeable emotions), are a great deal more than those of the poor, and that they are more worthy of sympathy. [4]
- The sympathy of the world is with Kruger--so far. [11]
- His impulsiveness opened the way for some confidence from her, and before the affair was arranged she was enjoying in her quality of clerical widow the balm of the Virginians' reverent sympathy. [8]
- Since when did the truest love prevent a man from being petulant, even to the extent of wounding those he best loves, especially if the loved one shows scruples when sympathy is needed? [4]
- How to cultivate the sympathy of the employers with the employed as men, and how to interest the employed in their work beyond the mere wages they receive, is the double problem. [4]
- He knew that the sympathy of all his father's house was not with him, but with the woman he had wronged. [11]
- Frau Schimmel regarded the sorrowful man with deep sympathy, and as it was in her nature to try and comfort those who wept rather than to join in their lamentations, she cast about her for something that would console him. [10]
- Princess Mary was the same as always, but beneath her sympathy for her brother, Pierre noticed her satisfaction that the engagement had been broken off. [2]
- She fancied that the saints, the glorified martyrs in the painted windows illumined by the sunlight, could feel, could hear, were touched by human sympathy in their beatitude. [4]
- The chair relieved the room of anything like commonness, and somehow was in sympathy with the simple surroundings, making for dignity and sweet quiet. [11]
- You could see the response in that nobleman's face; you could see his eye light up; there was sympathy there. [5]
- The party of the old and dissatisfied, who censured the innovations, turned to him expecting his sympathy in their disapproval of the reforms, simply because he was the son of his father. [2]
- These letters were the last thing that held me in sympathy with any remnant or belonging of the old life. [5]
- I can imagine the heart retaining much tenderness and sympathy with suffering when the soul itself has ceased to struggle for the higher life, when the mind has lost, in regard to life, the final discrimination of what is right and wrong. [4]
- He had watched the growth and development of Carnac with a sharp sympathy. [11]
- There is, however, the Celtic strain, the Irish blood, immediate of the tang, as it were, and no doubt a sympathy between the Celtic and the Gallic strain is very near, and has a tendency to become very dear. [11]
- Nay, more than that, it could have no sympathy with him. [4]
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