Then, when matters had become tragic in the little family circle, she could bear the burden of pain

Ah, I forget the straits, alas! More tragic than theirs, more compassion-worth, That have doomed you to march in our 'immigrant class' Where you're nothing but 'scum o' the earth!'

And the organism of the boarding-house seemed absolutely tragic to her, compact of the stuff of sorrow itself!

When the hurried marriage had come to a pathetic end by her early death everyone was tragic about it except Aylmer.

It is only the crying of one of the great wrongs of the world wrought into music, as it were, and made beautiful by "the most tragic of the poets."

I suspect too that we realised the issues were too tragic for this kind of buffoonery.

The only remaining party to the Balkan Wars is Greece, and the situation of Greece, though not tragic like that of Servia, must be exceedingly humiliating to the Greek nation and to the whole Hellenic race.

Then he tried to smile, tried to smooth out the tragic with a forced jocularity.

At least I felt something theresomething strange, great, simple, inevitable, tragic as life itself.

But presently he halted, harkened after the Creole's receding step, thought long, softly called himself names, and then did a small thing which, although it resulted in nothing tragic at the time, marked a turning point in his life.

There is something tragic behind it.

On December 28th they started to traverse, once more, that portion of Marble Cañon made tragic by the fatality of the summer before.

It seemed to veil something that was tragic from her eyes.