Tragedies
['trædʒədi]
Definition
(pl. ) of Tragedy
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Examples
- Tragedies deep and dire were the chief favourites. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- That retreat is one of the great tragedies of history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We were still at Windsor; our renewed hopes medicined the anguish we had suffered from the late tragedies. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- After dinner, we went to witness Talma's performance in one of Racine's tragedies, Brougham being a very great admirer of French dramatic poetry. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Let us have no ranting tragedies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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