Commiseration and sympathy instantly took the place of the first impression, and he was so much absorbed with these feelings that he had not taken up the letter which was to follow, when Paul laid down the paper he had last been required to read.

So "his frequent illness made him more and more a subject of treatment and commiseration....

One of their complaints is not such as can claim much commiseration from the softest bosom.

When that gentleman had stalked out, the old lawyer looked at Ida with a mixture of dismay and commiseration.

"Tired, Joseph, dear?" murmured his mother, regarding him with a mixture of pride and commiseration.

" He lurched towards Ida, and as she drew back with a shudder of horror and loathing, Isabel and his mother caught the wretched young man by the arm, and with cries of alarm and commiseration, endeavoured to soothe him.

Who can feel ought save commiseration for a man who, standing on London bridge, could say, "Earth has not anything to show more fair"?

Lucy, now an object of commiseration amongst the neighbours, still retained her cheerfulness.

It was one of the peculiarities of that mountain climate that its rays diffused a kindly warmth over the wintry landscape, as if in regretful commiseration of the past.

" "Goodness!" exclaimed Miss Annie, clasping her hands and gazing with an air of comical commiseration at Mr Croft's serious face.

Envy of those who are fortunate, and commiseration of those who are in trouble, are alike rooted in emulation.

Yet such is the hardening nature of such scenes, that from this kind of commiseration for the suffering slave, I became so blunted that I could not only witness their stripes with composure, but myself inflict them, and that without remorse.

" The fact that the greatest cruelties may be exercised quite unconsciously when cruelty has become a habit, and that at the same time, the mind may feel great sympathy and commiseration towards other persons and even towards irrational animals, is illustrated in the case of Tameriane the Great.

Their Saviour, who possessed more benevolence and commiseration than they pretend to, has allowed of it.

"In such an event," returned our adventurer, regarding her with a look in which commiseration and indefinite concern were so singularly mingled, that her own mild gaze was changed into a timid and furtive glance, "in such an event, we should be leaving that land it is so important to reach.

" "I fear it will!" returned our adventurer, who had not ceased, during the previous dialogue, to keep his look fastened, in manly commiseration, on the countenance of the boy; "I greatly fear it will!Since I have come the messenger of another, Captain Heidegger it is your province to supply a fitting answer to my proposition.

It was not until he had spent a full hour in doleful self-commiseration, that his sense of worldliness came to his relief.

"Hence tears and commiseration are so often employed.

And seeing that Feltram had been well liked, and that his death had excited a vehement commiseration, Sir Bale did not wish it to be said that he had made the house too hot to hold him, and had so driven him to extremity.

Turcotte returned to Sugar Creek with comforts and prescriptions for Sophy, and Colonel Cutler sent out a party to hunt for the missing ones, among whom poor Currie, from his delicate constitution, was the object of our greatest commiseration.

" "I know it," admitted the girl, with a deep breath like commiseration.

The mournersthe mother sustained by Barton, and Morris, attended by his promised bride, a sweet and beautiful girl, and the two young boys so interesting in their childish sorrow, so few in number, and unsupported by uncles, aunts or cousinswere objects of unusual interest and commiseration.

And the noble Cantemir had well nigh won her heart by his voice and music, and now that he was in danger of Lord Cedric's anger, he became an object of commiseration, and not for her life would she give his name to this raging man with murder in his heart.

On such hearts every thing is thrown away except it be religious commiseration, and the sincerest.

But he met with no commiseration from the assemblage, who only laughed at his rage and absurd grimaces.