V. condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament with &c 839; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow.

" "Hard luck," sympathized the old man, "coming near to being a forty-niner and missing it.

We were highly gratified with the kind and sympathizing manner in which Mr. C. spoke with the unfortunate beings who, in the extremity of their wrongs, ventured to his door.

My wish is now that all the women doctors should be real Christian doctors with real love and sympathizing hearts for the patients.

The mother felt that now none but God could or would help; that in the Fulton street prayer-meeting were sympathizing friends, and to it sent her request.

" "I don't wonder," said sympathizing Mrs. Harding.

They only can sympathize in the eagerness with which I snatch up the precious volume, the haste with which I count out the five and twenty francs, the delight with which I see the dealer's hand close on the sum, and know that the book is legally and indisputably mine!

" "And there generally weren't any!" sympathized Helen.

But do thou rather sympathize his infirmityes, for that will afford a gratefull easement, by a seeming participation.

" "I know just how the girls feel," sympathized James.

He had complained of the dilatoriness of the Board of Works, and now for the first time in his life he sympathized a little with the Board.

"Tough luck, Jim," Benton sympathized.

And while Mrs. Ware had always repelled persons by her haughty reticence, Annie, from the first day she could speak until now, had won all hearts by her sunny, open, sympathizing nature.

That changed dwelling was not indeed deserted, for sympathizing neighbours came to it as before; but though many may be admitted with readiness when it is a time for congratulation, it is only the few who can be welcome in a season of sorrow; and

I welcome you, sir, to the capital of a great and flourishing commonwealthto its halls of legislation, which, in your own fatherland, were the scenes of some of your proudest triumphs, and to the hearts of a free, generous, and sympathizing people.

Considering the extent of country over which they travelled, the varied nature of their labors, and the large number of serious-minded and sympathizing persons with whom they were brought into relation, this journey may perhaps be regarded as the most active and fruitful period of their lives.

'No man sympathizes with [vanity, depressed] the sorrows of vanity.

From every railroad-station the ponderous train bore off its freight of living valor, amid the cheers of sympathizing thousands who clustered upon every shed and pillar, and yearned forward as if to make their tumultuous feelings the motive power to carry those dear friends away.

What did those violent, quarrelsome, adventurous settlers on the western confines of American civilization care whether their favorite was learned or ignorant, so long as he was manifestly superior to them in their chosen pursuits and pleasures, was capable of leading them in any enterprise, and sympathized with them in all their ideas and prejudices,a born democrat, as well as a born leader.

She lov'd me too, yes, and repaid my flame, As kindly as I sacrific'd to her: The first salute we gave were harmless Love, Our Souls then met, and so grew up together, Like sympathizing Twins.

There are movements with whose direction we sympathize, which are yet so ungoverned that we lose our freedom and the use of our reason in committing ourselves to them.

It need not be added that he sympathized with Burke's "Reflections on the French Revolution,"that immortal document which for rhetoric and passion has never been surpassed, and also for the brilliancy with which reverence for established institutions is upheld, and the disgust, hatred, and scorn uttered for the excesses which marked the godless revolutionists of the age.

" "From what I read of the case," I went on carelessly, "it seems rather difficult to help sympathizing with himto a certain extent.