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  • Thank you for your commiserations, my friend, and now you'd best be off, back to your confounded computer.†   (source)
  • Noah and Simon and I commiserated; as much as Owen had captured our admiration, he had risked embarrassing himself—and all of us—by being the instrument of Hester's debut at Gravesend Academy.†   (source)
  • Mother came home and commiserated with Ender about the monitor.†   (source)
  • She commiserates with a friend whose mother has also left.†   (source)
  • Wendy had commiserated with Jack, but privately she had just been glad that Danny had gotten off as cheaply as he had.†   (source)
  • We snuck into each other's rooms by night to trade secrets, argue, commiserate, spy, and continue chess games and monopoly games that had begun days earlier.†   (source)
  • I was Madame Ngemba, someone to commiserate with in the market over the price of fruit, the mother of children who sought mischief with theirs.†   (source)
  • She could call Wendy, but Wendy would simply commiserate by saying her own mother was doing far crazier things.†   (source)
  • He could still charm them and commiserate over their inability to locate the elusive deedholder, H. S. Campbell, but Holmes knew they soon would lose patience and in fact was a bit surprised they had not pursued him more forcefully than had been the case thus far.†   (source)
  • Commiseration and Rapport.†   (source)
  • Old female relations with incipient beards and several wobbling chins made overnight trips to Ayemenem to commiserate with her about her divorce.†   (source)
  • Naturally, his lordship was greatly distressed and immediately made plans to dispatch funds and commiserations to Frau Bremann.†   (source)
  • Then from the other she took a well-used handkerchief squeezed into a ball and held it tight in her fist, looking at Fermina Daza from a great distance and with a smile of commiseration.†   (source)
  • Marley was awake, too, his chin resting on the mattress, once again commiserating with his mistress.†   (source)
  • You shouldn't have shown your pride so much," he said, shaking his head in commiseration.†   (source)
  • 'I wish we could get out of class,' Michael commiserated.†   (source)
  • All the other new arrivals were in the same boat, and we commiserated bitterly.†   (source)
  • The magus commiserated, "Too bad you can't take Ambiades home to be duke and let me keep Sophos to be magus."†   (source)
  • However, it was more important to shore up Orrin's confidence than to commiserate with him, for if his resolve weakened, it would interfere with his duties and undermine the morale of his men.†   (source)
  • My mother and I commiserated silently, watching him climb the stairs to Ashley's room like a soldier going off to battle.†   (source)
  • But when they looked up, Jack and Aven had already moved to another part of the ship, commiserating.†   (source)
  • The chaplain raised his eyes quickly in obsequious commiseration.†   (source)
  • Other village women visited to socialize, give advice, and commiserate.†   (source)
  • Jenica runs to catch up with him, to commiserate.†   (source)
  • I prefer to celebrate or commiserate my kissing in private.†   (source)
  • Traffic was steady throughout the afternoon as the neighbors and church members and other friends made the solemn trek to Seth's home to deliver food, to commiserate, but mainly to nail down the gossip that was raging through the northeastern edge of Ford County.†   (source)
  • Long may it be free of such villainies and long may it preserve a commiseration for the wretched.†   (source)
  • Mostly the messages expressed varying degrees of shock, outrage and commiseration.†   (source)
  • Franco and I commiserate about how St. Mark's Place is a zoo these days with the bridge-and-tunnel crowd wearing fuchsia mohawks and safety pins through their cheeks.†   (source)
  • Her anguish was so intense that it had scraped her nerves raw, until a murmur of commiseration was like a scream to her, until a loving hand scorched like a branding iron.†   (source)
  • He expected his story to dovetail into milkwarm commiseration, but before Nel could excrete it, Sula said she didn't know about that—it looked like a pretty good life to her.†   (source)
  • The speakers were commiserating with somebody lyrically.†   (source)
  • "I know," the teacher said, shaking his head sorrowfully, in commiseration.†   (source)
  • On October 25, the newspapers of the country, controlled by the same men who controlled the Board, began a campaign of commiseration with the workers of Rearden Steel.†   (source)
  • Richter's office, commiserating with Rasmussen or those Strategy instructors who had not been imprisoned.†   (source)
  • I pull back from the macspattered toilet, feel a fleeting sense of shame and commiseration for Manuela.†   (source)
  • Chataya commiserated with him a moment, then excused herself and glided off.†   (source)
  • And most of all, most emphatically of all, they hated how her favorite means of connecting was commiseration.†   (source)
  • If one fell off the dock, or lost all his cash at poker, or failed to make time with a promising Pistolville piece, or announced that hurricane or freeze was on the way, the other commiserated with, "Alas, Babylon!"†   (source)
  • George wondered whether to commiserate with Jan for his newly acquired relative.†   (source)
  • Friends stopped by my bunk at the barracks to commiserate and tell me it wasn't so bad being kicked out of flying.†   (source)
  • But just the same, the jury will solemnly deliberate, the attorneys will frown their commiseration, the judge will mournfully rap his gavel, and out you'll go like, excuse the expression, a light.†   (source)
  • The expert gave a shrug of commiseration.†   (source)
  • The stationmaster rose out of the ruins and the guard jumped down from the train and commiserated with him.†   (source)
  • His large face overhead flowed over with commiseration and pleasure.†   (source)
  • The quad was packed with students commiserating over finals.†   (source)
  • This is the one rule my mother-in-law doesn't respect either," I commiserated.†   (source)
  • Rob commiserates and says he'll steal stuff for Cedric from the cafeteria if he wants.†   (source)
  • … It was over, then…… He hesitated outside the crowded Great Hall, then ran up the marble staircase; whether Gryffindor had won or lost, the team usually celebrated or commiserated in their own common room.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, I must congratulate you on the fact that your husband has been at last located, although I must also commiserate with you on the unfortunate circumstances.†   (source)
  • They commiserated on rampant misogyny, bad manners, and depressed mothers, whereas Art and she talked to discover new things about themselves and each other.†   (source)
  • One man lost his hat and Hallorann could commiserate with him as it whirled high, wide, and handsome.†   (source)
  • Axelroot," I said, "I will commiserate your presence on this porch with me but only as a public service to keep the peace in this village.†   (source)
  • He spoke briefly with each of the warriors he met, inquired whether they were being fairly treated, commiserated about their sore feet and short rations, and sometimes exchanged a quip or two.†   (source)
  • Tony Horwitz, in frequent calls between our writers' garrets, provided his always adept commiseration, as did the always level-headed Joe White, regularly checking in from Detroit.†   (source)
  • Beautiful Moon, Snow Flower, and I huddled together, making clucking sounds of commiseration, but inside, although we were sorry for Elder Sister, we believed this kind of thing would never happen to us.†   (source)
  • When I started bringing an influx of visitors in the spring, curious people who heard about the island and who came basically to pity, to commiserate, and to poke around, it gave me and the kids almost Satanic pleasure to flip on the record player, challenge an unsuspecting guest to a contest in classical music, then let the well-drilled students maul them.†   (source)
  • If the Lord meant me to be rich, he'd have made merich," she told me when I commiserated with her once about the great lost fortune.†   (source)
  • He gave out a name to make her look more commiserating, and repeated, "What is the fare from Fishguard to Cork?"†   (source)
  • They simply listen to people, nod their heads painfully, commiserate at proper intervals, promise to do all they can, and then do nothing.†   (source)
  • He looks quietly at the other, with an expression of commiseration and pity.†   (source)
  • Pitying neighbors stopped to commiserate over Francie.†   (source)
  • "Pobre," she said in commiseration.†   (source)
  • "Too bad," he said, without commiseration.†   (source)
  • "Ah ruther be shot with tacks than tuh hear dat 'bout mahself," Lige Moss commiserated.†   (source)
  • If either of them felt surprise, resentment, commiseration or envy, they did not show it.†   (source)
  • Surely it can harm no one to believe that perhaps she has escaped not at all the privilege of being outraged and amazed and of not forgiving but on the contra? has herself gained that place or bourne where the objects of the outrage and of the commiseration also are no longer ghosts but are actual people to be actual recipients of the hatred and the *0.†   (source)
  • While he walked up the drive and Lily Briscoe said yes and no and capped his comments (for she was in love with them all, in love with this world) he weighed Ramsay's case, commiserated him, envied him, as if he had seen him divest himself of all those glories of isolation and austerity which crowned him in youth to cumber himself definitely with fluttering wings and clucking domesticities.†   (source)
  • Commiseration for me, or for Byron?†   (source)
  • —that the one cannot escape the censure which no doubt be deserves, that the other no longer lack the commiseration which let us hope (while we are hoping) that they have longed for, if only for the reason that they are about to receive it whether they will or no. The weather was beautiful though cold and they had to use picks to break the earth for the grave yet in one of the deeper clods I saw a redworm doubtless alive when the clod was thrown up though by afternoon it was frozen…†   (source)
  • Towards the remoter distance perhaps a bankrupt might have been getting a vigorous whacking in some muscovite market-place—not out of ill-feeling toward himself, but in the fervent hope that if only he squealed loud enough some of his friends or relations in the crowd would pay his debts out of commiseration.†   (source)
  • Commiseration?†   (source)
  • Henry looked at him commiseratingly, and said, "I'll be almighty glad when this trip's over."†   (source)
  • "He was a world of trouble to you, ma'am," said Mrs. Hubble, commiserating my sister.†   (source)
  • I felt as if he had greater commiseration for me than I had ever had for myself.†   (source)
  • She told me, with assumed commiseration, that I had an unhappy temper.†   (source)
  • Then people commiserated her— "What a pity! she had so much talent!"†   (source)
  • Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity.†   (source)
  • And you tell me this magistrate expressed great sympathy and commiseration for you?†   (source)
  • There was much commiseration for her as she was removed, and much sympathy with her father.†   (source)
  • It has inspired me with great commiseration, and I hope I understand it and its influences.†   (source)
  • Sir Pitt said with a voice of genuine alarm and commiseration.†   (source)
  • She looked into her lover's face and saw in it a look of commiseration and perplexity.†   (source)
  • 'She was quite overcome, I am afraid,' said Mr. Dick, with great commiseration.†   (source)
  • "What is the matter, Count?" asked the countess in a surprised and commiserating tone.†   (source)
  • "You got home all right," he said, gloomily, of a sudden, his tune modifying itself to one of self-commiseration.†   (source)
  • They expressed commiseration for that part of the army which had been left upon the river bank, felicitating themselves upon being a part of a blasting host.†   (source)
  • She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle,—a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.†   (source)
  • The uncouth faces passed him two by two, stained yellow or red or livid by the sea, and, as he strove to look at them with ease and indifference, a faint stain of personal shame and commiseration rose to his own face.†   (source)
  • Lily murmured her commiseration.†   (source)
  • In short, my aunt stipulated, at one and the same time, that whoever came to see her must approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of an ultimate recovery.†   (source)
  • As it was, he suffered a pang of commingled self-commiseration and self-contempt, based on the distress he felt for his mother.†   (source)
  • He was touched by her brave and costly defence of him, and by her commiseration; and he thanked her in very noble and princely words, and begged her to go to her sleep and try to forget her sorrows.†   (source)
  • Doramin's people were barricading the gate and pouring water down his throat; Doramin's old wife, full of business and commiseration, was issuing shrill orders to her girls.†   (source)
  • But memory and understanding of her character hardened him again, and he gave her such commiseration as was due her sex, and no more.†   (source)
  • And next day they would commiserate with those who had been prevented from coming that evening, and would assure them that the 'little scene' had never been so amusingly done.†   (source)
  • Her manner as she said this was so obviously dejected and self-commiserating that at once he was compelled to dismiss the thought of intrigue.†   (source)
  • Lily drew away with a movement of quick disdain: it was easier to endure his insolence than his commiseration.†   (source)
  • Self commiseration brewed in her heart.†   (source)
  • Later on, when, in the course of my life, I have had occasion to meet with, in convents for instance, literally saintly examples of practical charity, they have generally had the brisk, decided, undisturbed, and slightly brutal air of a busy surgeon, the face in which one can discern no commiseration, no tenderness at the sight of suffering humanity, and no fear of hurting it, the face devoid of gentleness or sympathy, the sublime face of true goodness.†   (source)
  • On his quitting the room she sat down, unable to support herself, and looking so miserably ill, that it was impossible for Darcy to leave her, or to refrain from saying, in a tone of gentleness and commiseration, "Let me call your maid.†   (source)
  • Farfrae knew of his dealings (though he did not guess their intended bearing on himself) and commiserated him; for since their exchange of words in the South Walk they had been on stiffly speaking terms.†   (source)
  • His hand was on the lapels of his coat, in the attitude of removing the garment, when he suddenly suspended the movement, and looked toward the commiserating Elizabeth, who was standing in an unchanged posture, too much absorbed with her anxious feelings to heed his actions.†   (source)
  • "— Even Mr. Weston shook his head, and looked solemn, and said, "Ah! poor woman, who would have thought it!" and resolved, that his mourning should be as handsome as possible; and his wife sat sighing and moralising over her broad hems with a commiseration and good sense, true and steady.†   (source)
  • "Sir," said Captain Speedy, who was now deeply interested in Mr. Fogg's project, "I really commiserate you.†   (source)
  • "And is it possible, my dear," rejoined the Judge, with a commiserating look, "that you have never heard of Clifford Pyncheon?†   (source)
  • Tom in various ways manifested a tenderness of feeling, a commiseration for his fellow-sufferers, strange and new to them, which was watched with a jealous eye by Legree.†   (source)
  • Whether from commiseration for a woman of so miserable a destiny; or from the morbid curiosity that gives a fictitious value even to common or worthless things; or by whatever other intangible circumstance was then, as now, sufficient to bestow, on some persons, what others might seek in vain; or because Hester really filled a gap which must otherwise have remained vacant; it is certain that she had ready and fairly requited employment for as many hours as she saw fit to occupy with…†   (source)
  • "You understand everything, I see, and have taken stock of everything, and look with commiseration on my shortcomings," he began again, raising his voice.†   (source)
  • The old man raised his eyes to the fierce visage of his keeper, and, for a moment, a gleam of honest and powerful disgust shot from their deep cells; but it instantly passed away, leaving in its place an expression of commiseration, if not of sorrow.†   (source)
  • Tushin's large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and commiseration on Rostov, who saw that Tushin with his whole heart wished to help him but could not.†   (source)
  • She had seen, under the strong glare of all the torches, the erect form of Deerslayer, standing with commiseration, and as she thought, with shame depicted on his countenance, near the dying female.†   (source)
  • Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commiseration with the follies of Prior Aymer.†   (source)
  • The whole party moved swiftly through the narrow path, toward the north, leaving the healing waters to mingle unheeded with the adjacent brooks and the bodies of the dead to fester on the neighboring mount, without the rites of sepulture; a fate but too common to the warriors of the woods to excite either commiseration or comment.†   (source)
  • This harangue excited great mirth among the bystanders; but, preposterous as was the sentiment, I could not help commiserating the forlorn condition of the last toper, whose boon companions had dwindled away from his side, leaving the poor fellow without a soul to countenance him in sipping his liquor, nor indeed any liquor to sip.†   (source)
  • Compassionate and, so to say, commiserating these people, I am ready to overlook it even now in spite of the personal insult lavished upon me!†   (source)
  • What good mother is there that would not commiserate a penniless spinster, who might have been my lady, and have shared four thousand a year?†   (source)
  • Listen to my tale; when you have heard that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve.†   (source)
  • He made up his mind that it would be good entertainment to look in on Wilson that night and watch him worry over his barren law case and goad him with an exasperating word or two of sympathy and commiseration now and then.†   (source)
  • If he had previously sustained his firmness and fortitude, it had been by an effort which had cost him no little pain; but the warm welcome, the hearty manner, the homely unaffected commiseration, of the good old man, went to his heart, and no inward struggle could prevent his showing it.†   (source)
  • The reverence that I had for his grey head, was mingled with commiseration for his faith in those who were treacherous to him, and with resentment against those who injured him.†   (source)
  • Noah, whose top waistcoat-button might have been somewhere on a level with the crown of Oliver's head, rubbed his eyes with the inside of his wrists while this commiseration was bestowed upon him, and performed some affecting tears and sniffs.†   (source)
  • Miss Temple must have understood the meaning of the old man better than the other listeners; for while Louisa stood innocently by her side, commiserating the griefs of the hunter, she bent her head aside, so as to conceal her features.†   (source)
  • 'If you had never yielded to this fatal mania, Pancks,' said Clennam, more in commiseration than retaliation, 'it would have been how much better for you, and how much better for me!'†   (source)
  • Change places with him, and would you have been looked at by those blue eyes as he was, and commiserated by that agitated face as he was?†   (source)
  • I wished to help him in his trouble, as I had wished to do when he showed that first commiseration for me.†   (source)
  • She has always given me reason to believe, that after having shown so much commiseration and friendship in my misery, she would not desert me, should happier times return.†   (source)
  • "Oh, no, Kostya, oh, wait a minute, oh, do listen!" she said, looking at him with an expression of pained commiseration.†   (source)
  • This might have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in the future.†   (source)
  • …of her game, but by degrees it confusedly comes to light that she is a woman overwhelmed with injuries and wrongs, whom Mr. Snagsby has habitually deceived, abandoned, and sought to keep in darkness, and whose chief comfort, under her afflictions, has been the sympathy of the late Mr. Tulkinghorn, who showed so much commiseration for her on one occasion of his calling in Cook's Court in the absence of her perjured husband that she has of late habitually carried to him all her woes.†   (source)
  • With the trace of a smile of commiseration for herself she sat down in the armchair, taking off and putting on the rings on her left hand, vividly picturing from different sides his feelings after her death.†   (source)
  • There was a murmur of commiseration as Charles Darnay crossed the room to a grated door where the gaoler awaited him, and many voices—among which, the soft and compassionate voices of women were conspicuous—gave him good wishes and encouragement.†   (source)
  • And whenever Mrs. Gummidge was overcome in a similar manner during the remainder of our stay (which happened some few times), he always said the same thing in extenuation of the circumstance, and always with the tenderest commiseration.†   (source)
  • Every where his eyes, which just at that moment possessed a secret magnifying quality, seemed to rest on several dark, savage, and obdurate countenances at once, from none of which could he extract a solitary gleam of sympathy or commiseration.†   (source)
  • Benjamin stared about him fiercely, and could he have found a single face that expressed contumely, he would have been prompt to quarrel with its owner; but meeting everywhere with looks of sobriety, and occasionally of commiseration, he very deliberately seated himself by the side of the hunter, and, placing his legs in the two vacant holes of the stocks, he said: "Now lower away, master constable, lower away, I tell ye!†   (source)
  • Pointing to the sweet countenance that was beaming on her own, with a look of tenderness and commiseration, he paused, to allow his wife to contemplate a loveliness, which was quite as excellent to her ingenuous mind as it had proved dangerous to the character of her faithless husband.†   (source)
  • He did not understand why the old princess took his hand, and looking compassionately at him, begged him not to worry himself, and Dolly persuaded him to eat something and led him out of the room, and even the doctor looked seriously and with commiseration at him and offered him a drop of something.†   (source)
  • He tried to avoid his old acquaintances with their commiseration and offensive offers of assistance; he avoided all distraction and recreation, and even at home did nothing but play cards with his mother, pace silently up and down the room, and smoke one pipe after another.†   (source)
  • General commiseration.†   (source)
  • It seemed that Caddy's unfortunate papa had got over his bankruptcy—"gone through the Gazette," was the expression Caddy used, as if it were a tunnel—with the general clemency and commiseration of his creditors, and had got rid of his affairs in some blessed manner without succeeding in understanding them, and had given up everything he possessed (which was not worth much, I should think, to judge from the state of the furniture), and had satisfied every one concerned that he could do…†   (source)
  • Anyone who did not know her and her circle, who had not heard all the utterances of the women expressive of commiseration, indignation, and amazement, that she should show herself in society, and show herself so conspicuously with her lace and her beauty, would have admired the serenity and loveliness of this woman without a suspicion that she was undergoing the sensations of a man in the stocks.†   (source)
  • The Doctor bestowed a gracious but commiserating smile on the philosopher of nature, as he retrograded a step or two from the place whither he had been impelled by his excess of spirit, in order to reply with less expenditure of breath, and with a greater freedom of air and attitude.†   (source)
  • I commiserated their case, and resolved to endeavor procuring them some relief.†   (source)
  • Willoughby, he, whom only half an hour ago she had abhorred as the most worthless of men, Willoughby, in spite of all his faults, excited a degree of commiseration for the sufferings produced by them, which made her think of him as now separated for ever from her family, with a tenderness, a regret, rather in proportion, as she soon acknowledged within herself—to his wishes than to his merits.†   (source)
  • She remained there at least an hour, in the greatest agitation, deeply commiserating the state of her poor friend, and expecting a summons herself from the angry general to attend him in his own apartment.†   (source)
  • As soon as breakfast was over, she sat down to fulfil her promise to Miss Tilney, whose trust in the effect of time and distance on her friend's disposition was already justified, for already did Catherine reproach herself with having parted from Eleanor coldly, with having never enough valued her merits or kindness, and never enough commiserated her for what she had been yesterday left to endure.†   (source)
  • After a brief apology for his absence, he commiserated with me on my sad misfortune.†   (source)
  • He would shrug back into his shirt as soon as possible, avoiding questions and commiseration, and seek an excuse to leave the gathering, avoiding everyone until we took horse the following morning.†   (source)
  • The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions, Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile, You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick, You do not see the medicines, you do not mind the weeping friends, I am with you, I exclude others from you, there is nothing to be commiserated, I do not commiserate, I congratulate you.†   (source)
  • The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions, Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile, You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick, You do not see the medicines, you do not mind the weeping friends, I am with you, I exclude others from you, there is nothing to be commiserated, I do not commiserate, I congratulate you.†   (source)
  • …And where thou now exacts the penalty,— Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh,— Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture, But, touch'd with human gentleness and love, Forgive a moiety of the principal, Glancing an eye of pity on his losses, That have of late so huddled on his back, Enow to press a royal merchant down, And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint, From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never train'd To offices of tender courtesy.†   (source)
  • "Bear in mind, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that love is influenced by no consideration, recognises no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it; and so without shame Altisidora declared her passion, which excited in my mind embarrassment rather than commiseration."†   (source)
  • More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal!†   (source)
  • I have often observed with concern, that distress is more apt to excite contempt than commiseration, especially among men of business, with whom poverty is understood to indicate want of ability.†   (source)
  • She ended weeping; and her lowly plight, Immoveable, till peace obtained from fault Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration: Soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late, and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress; Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking, His counsel, whom she had displeased, his aid: As one disarmed, his anger all he lost, And thus with peaceful words upraised her soon.†   (source)
  • But as all these conjectures were very uncertain, I could do no more than commiserate there distress, and thank God for delivering me, in particular, when so many perished in the raging ocean.†   (source)
  • _' "I thanked him with tears of commiseration; and instead of taking me to Italy he conducted me to Algiers, where he sold me to the Dey.†   (source)
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