All 22 Uses of
compassion
in
Bleak House
- Richard, answering what he saw in Ada's compassionate eyes, took the opportunity of laying some money, softly and unobserved, on the chimney-piece.†
Chpt 4-6
- Such compassion, such gentleness, as that with which she bent down weeping and put her hand upon the mother's might have softened any mother's heart that ever beat.†
Chpt 7-9
- I only thought that perhaps the Angel of the child might not be all unconscious of the woman who replaced it with so compassionate a hand; not all unconscious of her presently, when we had taken leave, and left her at the door, by turns looking, and listening in terror for herself, and saying in her old soothing manner, "Jenny, Jenny!"†
Chpt 7-9
- As he appealed to me for compassion, and as I was only a listener, I undertook to hold him.†
Chpt 13-15
- I felt a liking for him and a compassion for him as he put his little kit in his pocket—and with it his desire to stay a little while with Caddy—and went away good-humouredly to his cold mutton and his school at Kensington, that made me scarcely less irate with his father than the censorious old lady.†
Chpt 13-15
- They were looking at the birds, while a medical gentleman who was so good as to attend Miss Flite with much solicitude and compassion spoke with her cheerfully by the fire.†
Chpt 13-15
- I cannot describe the tenderness with which he spoke to her, half playfully yet all the more compassionately and mournfully.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- "I know no more, ma'am, than the dead," she replied, glancing compassionately at him.†
Chpt 31-33
- The servants compassionating his miserable state and being very anxious to help, we soon got the loft-room ready; and some of the men about the house carried him across the wet yard, well wrapped up.†
Chpt 31-33
- He was so good, his touch expressed such endearing compassion and affection, and the tone of his voice carried such comfort into my heart that I stopped for a little while, quite unable to go on.†
Chpt 34-36
- But when she caught me to her breast, kissed me, wept over me, compassionated me, and called me back to myself; when she fell down on her knees and cried to me, "Oh, my child, my child, I am your wicked and unhappy mother!†
Chpt 34-36
- Nor is he merely curious, for in his bright dark eye there is compassionate interest; and as he looks here and there, he seems to understand such wretchedness and to have studied it before.†
Chpt 46-48
- Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts.†
Chpt 46-48
- There is nothing in her manner to express weakness or excite compassion.†
Chpt 46-48
- "The sight of our dear little woman," said Richard, Ada still remaining silent and quiet, "is so natural to me, and her compassionate face is so like the face of old days—"†
Chpt 49-51
- This man whom we have seen so openhearted and compassionate, who with the might of a giant has the gentleness of a child, who looks as brave a fellow as ever lived and is so simple and quiet with it, this man justly accused of such a crime?†
Chpt 52-54
- While he makes this protestation with great emotion and earnestness, looking round the room as if he were addressing an assembly, Mr. Bucket glances at him with an observant gravity in which there might be, but for the audacity of the thought, a touch of compassion.†
Chpt 52-54
- Not in the least anxious or disturbed is Mr. Bucket when Sir Leicester appears, but he eyes the baronet aside as he comes slowly to his easy-chair with that observant gravity of yesterday in which there might have been yesterday, but for the audacity of the idea, a touch of compassion.†
Chpt 52-54
- And even to the point of his sinking on the ground, oblivious of his suffering, he can yet pronounce her name with something like distinctness in the midst of those intrusive sounds, and in a tone of mourning and compassion rather than reproach.†
Chpt 52-54
- In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her with such strong earnestness would have moved her to great compassion.†
Chpt 55-57
- I saw but did not comprehend the solemn and compassionate look in Mr. Woodcourt's face.†
Chpt 58-60
- I learned in a moment that what I had thought was pity and compassion was devoted, generous, faithful love.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help