Sympathies

Examples

• My sympathies are not for my father's race, but for my mother's. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I mean, that human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But even human sympathies were not sufficient to satisfy his eager mind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I know how he has narrowed the circle of his sympathies and duties, in the concentration of his whole mind upon me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Pray present my best respects and sympathies to Lady Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Now, an aristocrat, you know, the world over, has no human sympathies, beyond a certain line in society. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Its founder desired while benefiting the poor to enlist th e sympathies of the fashionable world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You may skirmish with Miss Dartle, or try to hide your sympathies in jest from me, but I know better. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He continued-- You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• You object--see, sir, how my sympathies look straight down into your thoughts! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies, does Christmas time awaken! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Are they in harmony with the sympathies of Christ? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And signs, for aught we know, may be but the sympathies of Nature with man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I used sometimes to hear my mother reasoning cases with him,--endeavoring to excite his sympathies. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But the sympathies of the latter were with the mother? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• As my authorship increased, I acquired new sympathies and pleasures. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If her roaming sympathies had struck root anywhere, it was in her friendship with Judy Trenor. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She said nothing, but I saw all her sympathies gathering to mine in her face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I understood at once--for my sympathies are your sympathies--why you wished to see her here before you pledged yourself to inviting Lady Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But Gregory XI did not take the sympathies of the whole church with him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This had occurred very shortly before, and the boy's sympathies are known to have been strongly with his mother. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The poor ought to have no large sympathies; it is their duty to be narrow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am aware of all these misplaced sympathies of yours. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• At first she poured herself out unstintingly, happy in this perfect communion of their sympathies. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Well, now, that's onlucky, said the woman, whose motherly sympathies were much aroused; I'm re'lly consarned for ye. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• My sympathies are with the criminals rather than with the victim, and I will not handle this case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I suppose that for natures of that order his sympathies _were_ callous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But in one respect they resembled him and appealed to his sympathies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am conscious of a terrible necessity for lacerating those sympathies by referring to domestic events of a very melancholy kind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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