Tragedy

Examples

• He thought no more of the matter until he heard in the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening's tragedy, fell to meditating aloud in his garden at Camberwell. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Davoust and Massena, who wrought in many a battle tragedy, are here, and so also is Rachel, of equal renown in mimic tragedy on the stage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was midday when we found ourselves at the scene of the tragedy, and, under my companion's guidance, we made our way at once to Hudson Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I feel as if I could be anything or everything; as if I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the larger manufacturing towns the same tragedy was acted on a smaller, yet more disastrous scale. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I wish you good morning, sir--and she bowed me out of the room like a tragedy Queen, said the lawyer who told the story. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I can assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which followed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• William, Justine, and Clerval, had died through my infernal machinations; And whose death, cried I, is to finish the tragedy? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I warned the inmates of the house, so as to avoid a second tragedy, and we went down, with the happiest results. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had actually arrived at twelve o'clock, and appeared to be overwhelmed by the unexpected tragedy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The traces of the tragedy had been removed, but the furniture within the little room still stood as it had been on the night of the crime. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A blinding gust of smoke blotted out the tragedy within that fearsome cell--a shriek rang out, a single shriek, as the dagger fell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• When Thrasymachus has been silenced, the two principal respondents, Glaucon and Adeimantus, appear on the scene: here, as in Greek tragedy (cp. Plato. The Republic.
• 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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