From the shrivelled face a pair of eyes looked up; deep-set, utterly tragic, utterly resigned.

Taking a few hasty steps forward, and dreading anything disagreeably tragic, she said: "Mr. Bradford, I believe.

Though there was no sign of a tear on his features, and though it was difficult to believe that it was he who had just sobbed, nevertheless, his figure was dismayingly tragic.

And the sight was extraordinarily, incomprehensibly tragic.

To Doctor Suydam, however, the incontestable progress of the malady was frightfully tragic.

Below his quiet, his quaintness, his humour, and what may seem the slightness, the occasional or accidental character of his work, there lies, as I said at starting, as in his life, a genuinely tragic element.

"This is horribly tragic," he added in a low tone to Kelson, "but it has to be gone through, and perhaps the sooner the better.

And the sight was extraordinarily, incomprehensibly tragic.

'No,' she said; 'what?' 'I would drop down and die, my heart would burst and break, and if I couldn't die very quick, I wouldn't eat or drink nothing, but I'd go sadly to my grave and lay my head down, and the next morning you would find me stiff and cold with my glassy eyes staring up at the sky, like an old dog I read about.' Teddy's tone was so intensely tragic that Nancy was silent.

Don't you know, Maryespecially the one I lent youdeeply, mysteriously tragic.

There is something deeply tragic in the short story of Keats's life.

Her grief was evidently deep and profound; and yet, strange to say, I found myself realising that this event, entailing peculiarly tragic consequences which I need not here define, was to the gallant old lady, in spite of, or rather in consequence of, her grief, a thing which heightened the values of existence, put a fire into her pulses, and quickened the sense of living.

It is a singular thing that those poetical plays which are now written in England by the most advanced students of the drama follow exclusively the lines of Maeterlinck, and use verse and rhyme for the adornment of a profoundly tragic theme.

indeed, two elements are mixedthe element of Machiavelli and Tamburlaine in Gaveston, and the purely tragic element which evolves from within itself the style in which it shall be treated, in the King.

And if there are half a million similarly tragic houses in Europe to-day, as probably there are, such frequency does not in the slightest degree diminish the forlorn tragedy of that particular house which I have beheld.

Something subtly tragic in the separation was a great support to her, a sad misunderstanding.

II.Marionetta Mr. Glowry returned with the loss of his lawsuit, and found Scythrop in a mood most sympathetically tragic.

The theatrically tragic mood of Byron is contrasted with the easy-going, somewhat cynical epicureanism of Horace....

It is peculiarly distressing in her case; all her sympathies are with her native state, and to have her husband go under such unusually tragic circumstances seems too dreadful.

The only outwardly tragic touch came from our chauffeur.