Nothing excited more commiseration than the dreadful state of the hospitals in the Levant, to which the sick and wounded were sent; and this terrible exigency brought women to the rescue.

His countenance expresses deep commiseration.

He shook his head simultaneously as he shook our hands, and his little grey eyes twinkled with delight, while he professed to feel for us both the deepest commiseration.

And she must be placed where she could exercise no further influence, yet in a way that should awaken no commiseration; for she was beautiful and terribly in earnest, and in her deep eyes there was the light of a prophet, and all Venice was at her feet.

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

My patients, three up to date, quite understand and conceal their commiseration with perfect good breeding.

I hope he has been guilty of nothing worse than credulity, and he then certainly deserves commiseration.

From an inferior man, I should expect officious and quite gratuitous commiseration over the fate of the late Empire.

Then you will always feel your kinship with him; you will sympathise with him; and instead of hatred or contempt you will experience the commiseration that alone is the peace to which the Gospel calls us.

The showman now implores the commiseration of the audience, and now reproaches Pulcinello with his profligacy and nefarious pranks which have brought him to an untimely end.

Public executions do more harm than good,but are not worse than morbid public commiseration and entreaty for criminals, to whom the real justice of the law has been applied, after fair and merciful trial....

If the Flappers excite our disgust, their subsequent treatment moves our commiseration, since the Sumptuary and Disciplinary Laws passed by the House of Ladies dealt in drastic fashion with the offences which I have described.

Forgotten while Teresita held back with one hand a black lock which the wind was trying to fling across her eyes, and murmured mocking commiseration over the half obliterated callouses on Jack's hand, Dade loitered across the patio, remembering many things whose very sweetness made the present hurt more bitter.

" [-13-] Such words she uttered expecting to obtain commiseration: Caesar, however, made no answer to it.

This procured him the commiseration of the entire party of irréconciliables.

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

"Accept," she said, "my profound commiseration."

But Louis, as one of his historians has aptly remarked, was never so thoroughly a King as when he was called upon to punish, a fact of which Richelieu was so well aware that he did not hesitate to affect the deepest commiseration for the unhappy Duke, and even to urge some of the principal nobles of the Court to intercede in his behalf.

harder than iron itself, and far from showing the slightest commiseration, they threw him brutally down, exclaiming in a jeering tone, 'Most powerful king, we are about to prepare thy throne.'

To avoid commiseration of heartless friends and the triumphant glances of literary enemies, Hubert passed through the door leading on to the stage.

So base an end all iust commiseration Doth take away: yet what we doe now spurne

He acknowledges no contrition to bespeak commiseration, he complains of no wrong to justify revenge, for he feels none; he despises sympathy, and almost glories in his perdition.