Tragic

Examples

• The least that you owe her is to make it clear to the whole world that she was in no way, directly or indirectly, responsible for his tragic end. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Her face had grown as sombre as a tragic mask. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• His son had been killed in a very tragic manner, which Herodotus relates, but which we will not describe here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And the tragic poet is an imitator, and therefore, like all other imitators, he is thrice removed from the king and from the truth? Plato. The Republic.
• Let us say nothing about it to him till the plan is settled, then I'll run away before he can collect his wits and be tragic. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It told how two Englishmen who had been traveling with a woman had met with a tragic end. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Neither are comic and tragic actors the same; yet all these things are but imitations. Plato. The Republic.
• A tragic poet, that would represent his heroes as very ingenious and witty in their misfortunes, would never touch the passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What would to-day be regarded by an aeronaut as a slight setback seemed at that moment like a tragic failure. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There may be tragic economic struggles, grim grapplings of race with race and class with class. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Political life, they felt, had ceased to be the urgent and tragic thing it had once been; it had become a polite comedy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Majestic gloom and tragic pomp attended the decease of wretched humanity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Some of the most deeply tragic and romantic, some of the most terrible incidents, have also their parallels in reality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• To rant, to rave, to be tragic, to make situations--it was all too late. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Alfred's serious air shewed that he still revolved the tragic story related by the Italian boy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Her features are not tragic features, and she walks too quick, and speaks too quick, and would not keep her countenance. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The development for which my friend had asked came in a quicker and an infinitely more tragic form than he could have imagined. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• And the tragic poet is an imitator, and, like every other imitator, is thrice removed from the king and from the truth. Plato. The Republic.
• Salt instead of sugar, and the cream is sour, replied Meg with a tragic gesture. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Her face had taken on a look of such tragic courage that he felt like bowing himself down at her feet. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The strong, masterful personality of Holmes dominated the tragic scene, and all were equally puppets in his hands. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The girl had wept, and then, too frightened, had turned aside to avoid any more tragic eventuality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The glare from the jeweller's window, deepening the pallour of her face, gave to its delicate lines the sharpness of a tragic mask. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Are not the tragic poets wise who magnify and exalt the tyrant, and say that he is wise by association with the wise? Plato. The Republic.
• Over the fireplace was a magnificent trophy of weapons, one of which had been used on that tragic night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Looking from one of them he could discern a pale, tragic face watching him drive away. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Nor can I suppose that when Mrs. Casaubon is discovered in a fit of weeping six weeks after her wedding, the situation will be regarded as tragic. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was tragic, but not, by the scale of universal history, a great tragedy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It seemed to be in Madame Olenska's mysterious faculty of suggesting tragic and moving possibilities outside the daily run of experience. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Imitation is only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic poets, whether they write in Iambic or in Heroic verse, are imitators in the highest degree? Plato. The Republic.

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