O, some good pitying man compassionate That wretched man, so woful desperate: Save him, for God's sake!

He knew so well how to compassionate human infirmities.

Sometime later the holy abbot, Lachtaoin [St. Lachten], compassionating Mochuda and his monks because of their lack of cattle paid a visit to Rahen bringing with him a gift of thirty cows and a bull, also a couple of cattlemen and two dairymaids.

Consider, Mr. Rambler, and compassionate the condition of a man, who has taught every company to expect from him a continual feast of laughter, an unintermitted stream of jocularity.

" The good Mrs. Mervyn accompanied these words with looks so sly, and emphasis so significant, that Rhoda was fain to look down, to hide her blushes; and compassionating the confusion she herself had caused, the kind old lady led her to the chamber which was henceforward, so long as she consented to remain, to be her own apartment.

A great rush of pity filled her eyes with tears, but then she was in a mood to compassionate any creature who had not the prospect of a twelve-mile walk to get a flower for Gray Stoddard.

The tender snow had compassionated the beautiful edifice for all the wrongs of time, and so hid the stains and ugliness of decay that it looked as if just from the hands of the builderor, better said, just from the brain of the architect.

" The voice seemed to compassionate Editha, and it was time.

We may compassionate the fate of Essex; but he was rash, giddy, and irritated, and we feel that he deserved his punishment.

And yet I could not help bitterly compassionating the honest fellow, brought to the gallows, as he was, strictly speaking, by the machinations of that devil incarnate, Mr. Tyrrel.

The sense of God's compassion for his feeble creatures does not help me; how can he compassionate the littleness for which he is himself responsible?

"TRANSLATOR.] How God compassionates Mankind, thy muse, my friend, rehearses Compassion for the sins of Man!What comfort for thy verses!

But Drake, compassionating the misery of their condition, gave them water, whenever they asked for it, and left them their commodities to traffick with, when they should be again reduced to the same distress, without finding the same generosity to relieve them.

Several of the officers openly professed to admire his piety, and to compassionate his misfortunes; even Cromwell, though at first he affected the distance and reserve of an enemy, sent him secret assurances of his attachment; and successive addresses were made to him in the name of the military, expressive of the general wish to effect an accommodation, which should reconcile the rights of the throne with those of the people.

We pity his closing days, after such a career of power and influence; but we may as well compassionate Socrates or Paul.

Sir Geoffrey was naturally fond of children, and so much compassionated the sorrows of his neighbour, that morning after morning he made Moultrassie Hall the termination of his walk or ride, and said a single word of kindness as he passed.

This worthy person, compassionating the state to which poetry was reduced by his contemporaries, who used their wit "in opposition to religion, and to the destruction of virtue and good manners in the world," resolved to rescue the Muses from this unworthy thraldom, "to restore them to their sweet and chaste mansions, and to engage them in an employment suited to their dignity."

But you can hardly expect people who live in trenches which have had to be rebuilt twice daily for the last few months and are shelled at all hours of the day or night, to compassionate the occasional trials of the home-keeping bomb-dodger.

Even in more modern days, the slave-markets of the East, and in the Southern States of the American Republic, have attracted crowds of spectatorssome to condemn the horrible practice, some to compassionate the unhappy victims, but most to engage in the monstrous traffic.

But I endured it with a resigned spirit, compassionating their wilfulness and blindness.

And drives sad passions from his heavy heart, Presaging some good future hap shall fall, After these blust'ring blasts of discontent? Thanks, gentle Nymphs, and Satyrs too, adieu; That thus compassionate a loyal lover's woe, When heav'n sits smiling at his dire mishaps.

"No wonder, Sir Frederic," said Mr Sherwood, compassionating the baronet's situation"no wonder your proposal is not wanted.

They, who see your lordship's name prefixed to my performance, will rather condemn my presumption than compassionate my anxiety.

As pointed, and severe as he is in his writings, in his temper he had all the softness of the tenderest disposition; gentle and inoffensive to every man in his particular character; he only attacks vice as a public enemy, compassionating the wound he is under a necessity to probe, or grieving, like a good natured conqueror, at the occasions which provoke him to make such havock.

O my mother, if you knew what the state of my mind is, and has been for months past, you would surely compassionate my case.