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  • Damn your sympathy! (8)
  • Paunitz, who came from sympathy! (8)
  • She wants sympathy. (8)
  • He looked to Helen for sympathy. (13)
  • I needed sympathy for my wounds. (18)
  • I have great sympathy with the poor. (8)
  • Lapham rejected the sympathy too openly offered. (9)
  • Did experience teach him, or sentimental sympathy? (10)
  • Her patient might be annoyed and needing sympathy? (10)
  • And all the time such questions, such assurances of respect and sympathy! (2)
  • He could not help feeling sympathy with Toombs and Body. (8)
  • She had spoken willingly and in deep sympathy of Dahlia. (10)
  • There was little sympathy to be spared for any body else. (4)
  • Sorrow and sympathy were in every heart and on every face. (14)
  • He won sympathy, but Roland could not give him encouragement. (10)
  • I went, and he entered with delicate sympathy into the affair. (9)
  • Her kindness is not sympathy; her good-nature is not tenderness. (4)
  • One gets up a sympathy for the poor shy dependent shivering lover. (10)
  • He wanted sympathy; for that, in part, he had come to her to-night. (13)
  • It was grasped, in gratitude for sympathy or in feminine politeness. (10)
  • She longed to speak a word in sympathy or relieve her bosom of tears. (10)
  • But he listened, for the sake of her sympathy, if for no other reason. (13)
  • The sympathy and good-will excited towards Captain Benwick was very great. (4)
  • The great heart of mankind ever beats in sense and sympathy with the weaker. (8)
  • I have seldom looked on the east-end of a church with more complete sympathy. (2)
  • He felt, with a throe of helpless sympathy, that she was undertaking too much. (9)
  • A man who cries out when he is hurt is absurd, and I am not asking for sympathy. (10)
  • Contributions of money and sympathy flow in upon him, and none fails to subscribe. (21)
  • For to have no sympathy with the playful mind is not to have a mind: it is a test. (10)
  • The noisy sympathy and wild speculations of the Tinleys and Copleys had to be endured. (10)
  • They uttered their sympathy seriously, and each parted from her with some friendly word. (9)
  • Lady Dunstane, in her quick sympathy with her friend, read the adverse mind in his face. (10)
  • Question One: The house was soon on fire; much sympathy is expressed with the sufferers. (16)
  • Bessie sighed in earnest, and her friend gave her hand a little pressure of true sympathy. (9)
  • I could spare no sympathy for his feelings, and I did not respond to his inquiring looks. (10)
  • So far as I have known these, they are men of aesthetic conscience and of generous sympathy. (9)
  • Her confidences to him he had excused, as a piece of conduct, in sympathy with her position. (10)
  • Through sympathy with their foreign confrères British writers also held him in high disesteem. (7)
  • He met him, and left the place with a cloud on his brow, showing tokens of respectful sympathy. (10)
  • Milray laughed as if her willingness to do the dance had defeated a sentimental sympathy in him. (9)
  • She was earnest in sympathy; not awake to the comical; dull as the clouds, dull as the discourse. (10)
  • The portrayal of his withered visage to Lady Dunstane had quite failed to gain a show of sympathy. (10)
  • She walked the room in a nervous tremour, shedding a note of sympathy to one sister and to the other. (10)
  • A heavy sadness blotted the gayety of a face whose sunny sympathy had been her only cheer for many days. (9)
  • I fell in love with Pope, whose life I read with an ardor of sympathy which I am afraid he hardly merited. (9)
  • He put his hand on that of his companion trembling on his arm with sympathy, or at least with intelligence. (9)
  • She re-enters precipitately, followed by her tardy guests, on whom she casts a backward glance of sympathy. (9)
  • He scarce had the power to conduct himself reverently, so intense was his longing to show her his sympathy. (10)
  • Something he said made her aware that he had heard of her loss, and that the violets were a token of sympathy. (8)
  • Few sights on earth are more deserving of our sympathy than a good man who has a troubled conscience thrust on him. (10)
  • He was afraid of her questions, of her feeling his sympathy with Christian, of clouding the puppet-show of her life. (12)
  • Sympathy we need, of course, and encouragement; but I am not sure that the lack of these is not a very good thing, too. (9)
  • True sympathy requires such delicate insight of the soul that he who feels it scorns to use the shop-worn, vulgar word. (12)
  • How would the world go round, how could Society exist, without common-sense, practical ability, and the lack of sympathy? (8)
  • Vernon turned from the portraits to a stuffed pike in a glass case, and plunged into sympathy with the fish for a refuge. (10)
  • And for perhaps the first time in his life Soames felt a kind of sympathy tapping in his waistcoat for that sardonic kinsman. (8)
  • She was perfectly serene and happy in her final rejection of Beaton; he had worn out not only her fancy, but her sympathy, too. (9)
  • She would never have done it herself; it was just that which, for all her longing to help her sister, iced her love and sympathy. (8)
  • Doubtless he was trained to have no understanding of a good to be derived by his communicating what he felt and getting sympathy. (10)
  • Doubtless he was trained to have no understanding of a good to be derived by his communicating what he felt and getting sympathy. (22)
  • Ashurst made the sound of sympathy which comes so readily from those who have an independent income, and the lame man smiled again. (8)
  • To be listened to and borne with, and hear the voice of kindness and sympathy in return, was everything that could be done for her. (4)
  • Stirrings of a remote sympathy for the creature who had robbed him of his son and hewed at his System, were in his heart of hearts. (10)
  • Her eyes had told him eloquently enough, first her deep sympathy, and afterward the emotions which so passionately stirred her heart. (5)
  • Lavender, into whose mind there had instantly rushed a flood of public utterances, stood gazing at her haggard face in silent sympathy. (8)
  • But beneath all is still the strong drift of a genuine emotion, a sympathy, deep and sincere, with the poor, the lowly, the unfortunate. (9)
  • Skepsey looked at the Tower in sympathy, wondering whether the Tower had seen those impudent Dutch a nice people at home, he had heard. (10)
  • Whitwell turned and slouched down the hill, leaving the painter to the most painful moment he had known with Jeff Durgin, and nearer sympathy. (9)
  • Compose yourself; there is no violent hurry, though our sympathy with you and our interest in all the parties does perhaps agitate us a little. (10)
  • The priest and the commandant assured me of their sympathy with all I said, and made a heavy sighing over the bitterness of contemporary feeling. (2)

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