All 11 Uses
compassion
in
The Prince and The Pauper
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- These 'vagaries' were soon on exhibition before them; but they only moved their compassion and their sorrow, not their mirth.†
Chpt 7 *compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- The hand of God lieth heavy upon him, and my heart goeth out in loving compassion for him, and sorrow that I may not bear his burden on mine old trouble-weighted shoulders, and so bring him peace.†
Chpt 8
- As soon as the snorings of the head of the house and his mother showed that they were asleep, the young girls crept to where the Prince lay, and covered him tenderly from the cold with straw and rags; and their mother crept to him also, and stroked his hair, and cried over him, whispering broken words of comfort and compassion in his ear the while.†
Chpt 10
- The spirit of compassion took control of him, to the exclusion of all other considerations; he never thought of the offended laws, or of the grief or loss which these three criminals had inflicted upon their victims; he could think of nothing but the scaffold and the grisly fate hanging over the heads of the condemned.†
Chpt 15
- Tom's compassion for the prisoner, and admiration of him as the daring rescuer of a drowning boy, experienced a most damaging shock.†
Chpt 15
- in thy royal compassion grant my prayer—give commandment that I be hanged!†
Chpt 15
- Then a bandage of soiled rags was put on in a cleverly careless way which would allow the hideous ulcer to be seen, and move the compassion of the passer-by.†
Chpt 22
- The judge turned to the woman again, and said, in a compassionate voice— "'Tis a poor ignorant lad, and mayhap was driven hard by hunger, for these be grievous times for the unfortunate; mark you, he hath not an evil face—but when hunger driveth—Good woman!†
Chpt 23compassionate = feeling or showing sympathy for another's suffering
- But Hugh only drew back, after betraying a momentary surprise, and bent a grave stare upon the intruder—a stare which indicated somewhat of offended dignity, at first, then changed, in response to some inward thought or purpose, to an expression of marvelling curiosity, mixed with a real or assumed compassion.†
Chpt 25compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- By-and-by his Majesty said gravely, and with a touch of genuine compassion, though the words themselves were capable of being interpreted ironically— "Mind not thy mischance, good man; there be others in the world whose identity is denied, and whose claims are derided.†
Chpt 25
- More than once, when some great dignitary, some gilded vassal of the crown, made argument against his leniency, and urged that some law which he was bent upon amending was gentle enough for its purpose, and wrought no suffering or oppression which any one need mightily mind, the young King turned the mournful eloquence of his great compassionate eyes upon him and answered— "What dost THOU know of suffering and oppression?†
Chpt Cncl.compassionate = feeling or showing sympathy for another's suffering
Definitions:
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(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)