Eliot shouted "We can't, Col-Col, it's too far," but Colin looked so pathetic, standing there in the big field, that Jerrold couldn't bear it.

Anne thought that pathetic.

He was utterly innocent, utterly pathetic in his sleep, and beautiful.

He managed to get several of the big bundles of grass under his feet, and stood there looking at us with a most pathetic pleading expression, and trembling, as if with an ague, from fear and exhaustion.

A half-pathetic figure, this white-haired man, once a connoisseur, who, from mere habit, continued to buy expensive pictures when he could no longer see them!

"If baby had lived she would have loved me like this perhaps," thought the Elder, as he read the pathetic words over and over.

More than once the Elder wiped his eyes; more than once he rose and walked up and down before the door, gazing with undefined but intense emotion at this woman telling her pathetic story with the simple-hearted humility of a child.

Elder Kinney's pathetic fears lest he might love his Saviour less by reason of his new happiness, had melted like frost in early sunlight, in the sweet presence of Draxy's child-like religion.

He had transferred to her all the pathetic love he had felt for the Elder; he often followed her at a distance when she went out, and little Reuby he rarely lost sight of, from morning till night.

Her eyes were bright and her cheeks pink; but there was an ineffable, almost solemn tenderness in her manner to John, which was pathetic.

The letter, for it was much more than a note of invitation, was cordial, and in parts pathetic.

The little woman's face was so pale, so tired, her whole personality so pathetic yet indomitable, that Angela's heart softened.

" "One would think," he suggested, "that the whitest of them would find their position painful and more or less pathetic; to be so white and yet to be classed as blackso near and yet so far.

It winds, and undulates, and glides up and down on texts of Scripture, and scraps from Paley, and trite sophistry, and pathetic appeals to his hearers in a faltering, inprogressive, sidelong way, like those birds of weak wing, that are borne from their strait-forward course "By every little breath that under heaven is blown.

The great becomes turgid in his hands, the pathetic insipid.

They received an interesting development through Goethe and Heinrich Heine, while most of the other poets who made use of them, even the greatest one, Novalis, often deteriorated either into a regular, if rhymeless, versification, or into a pathetic, formless prose.

As to prevailing temperaments, a preferably pathetic toneas, for example, in the epoch of Freytag, Geibel, Treitschkealternates with a sceptically satiric oneas in Fontane who (like so many writers, in Germany especially) did not belong to his own generation nor even to the immediately succeeding one, but to the next after that!

It was so pathetic to hear her saying many things of this kind, with her face turned upward, and her arms stretched out as if she were trying to stop his departing shadow and embrace it, that no one spoke a word until Mr. Bounderby (growing impatient) took the case in hand.

Surely her modern history is most pathetic.

Nothing can be more pathetic than the picture of a king crying for bread, yet willing to compromise on tarts.

The fate of those in the second category is more pathetic; they gradually wither and die away like flowers planted in a thin soil.

Then I remembered that if I allowed him to go elsewhere I should lose all hold over him, and I consented to draw up the will.' Emily listened, a vague expression of pain in her pathetic eyes.

They expressed such depth of pathetic appeal that he trembled with apprehension, and the instinct in him was to beg for pardon.

The pathetic droop at the corners of her brave gay mouth must have brought sympathy to any who had known her earlier.

The expression with which he regarded me had so much intelligence, so much good-nature, and at the same time such a pathetic diffidence, that I could not but answer him in the friendliest way.

Some listened in admiration, for habit had so far mastered dulness, as to have created a species of identity between the state and far more durable things, and they believed that St. Mark had gained a victory, in that decline, which was never exactly intelligible to their apathetic capacities.

Though apathetic, like most of the lower class of his countrymen, he uttered a faint guttural of surprise and peered over the bow.

He had promised himself, out of his new pathetic yearning when she had begun to improve, that never again should she know an ungratified wish, yet now he feared that she would give him no opportunity of granting a request, so apathetic had she grown.

The parson can't see the force of paying it himself, the officers of the church make no move in the matter, the congregation is apathetic on the subject, the beadle keeps quiet, and does his central church walk calmly, never thinking of it.

A light suddenly flashed upon his face would have discovered a keen and alert intelligence transfiguring the apathetic mask of every day.

In the "Gentlemen's Room" there is less of that ghastly, apathetic silence which seems only explainable as an interval between two terrible catastrophes.

Even the most stolid and apathetic soul relaxes a little.

Early in this year a machine for winding, and coppers for baking, together with appropriate treatises on the art, were sent over by the Trustees, but the people were indifferent and apathetic.

The Danubian principalities, though unfavourable to Russia, were not hearty in support of the Porte, and remained apathetic under the occupation of Russia.

When the dinner-bell rang, and she got up to brush her hair, that absent, apathetic look of which I have spoken had left her eyes.

It was a moody place; such a one as only apathetic or healthy natures (I wonder if that is tautology!) can healthfully yield to.

As an instance of their fatalism or apathetic indolence, I can remember a village on the estate I was managing taking fire.

There sat the rest of the apathetic villagers in groups, not lifting a finger, not stirring a step, but calmly looking on, while the devouring element was licking up hut after hut, and destroying their little all.

She moved about like one who had received a stunning blowshe was dull, cold, apathetic.

For a week before the receipt of the note from Clarence, she had been particularly apathetic and indifferent, but it seemed to rouse her into life again.

James Tapster looked rather out of it all; he looked his apathetic, sulky selfa man whom nothing would ever galvanize into real good-fellowship.

Even so, it was a very melancholy little procession which followed the two men carrying the chair on which Bubbles now lay in apathetic silence.

She was curiously apathetic, as people so often are after any kind of shock, but it was clear that there were to be no bad after-effects of the accident.

In the spring of 39 B.C. Herod landed at Ptolemais and with the apathetic aid of the Roman generals in Palestine began to organize the Jews who rallied about him.

His eyes even filled with tears, as one day passing by his house he saw the gates open, and equipages, as in former days, at his door, while genteel and rich people, with cold, apathetic countenances, were entering his house as they had done of yore.

It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat; and the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.

His eyes had an apathetic expression.

The steaming ones were a goodly fraction of the familythe timid, the apathetic, the "conservative."

least"(with a sigh of heavy and apathetic despair)"so

The audience was apathetic.