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Lucy's pathetic tones, which were fast degenerating into sobs, were agreeably interrupted.
LOVE ME LITTLE, LOVE ME LONGCHARLES READE
I tried to recall my theory, and to close my eyes to the pathetic beauty of the face before me; but it was altogether in vain.
THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMAHESBA STRETTON
The Arabian tale of Muléykeh is the most perfect and pathetic piece in the volume.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF BROWNINGARTHUR SYMONS
That sense of caveat donor was perhaps their most pathetic characteristic.
THE DWELLING PLACE OF LIGHT, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILL
The penetrating vibration of this rich and pathetic voice was a thing not easily to be forgotten.
SUNRISEWILLIAM BLACK
The perusal of this remark induced Mrs. Hemans to write her pathetic little poem which has the Italian epitaph for its title.
THE BRONT FAMILY, VOL. 2 OF 2FRANCIS A. LEYLAND
By such steps my thoughts led me on to the pathetic figure of Ysola Camber.
BAT WINGSAX ROHMER
Its always the same two minor chords we have in every pathetic song or storylove and warin some form!
DOWN THE RIVER TO THE SEAAGNES MAULE MACHAR
The biographers have never been able to fully account for the pathetic sadness and gloom of the closing days of Daniel Webster.
A MAN'S VALUE TO SOCIETYNEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS
His pallor was of the pathetic kind that gives an odd transparence to deeply tanned skin, almost like a light shining through.
THE BRIGHTENERC. N. WILLIAMSON
WORDS RELATED TO PATHETIC
- affecting
- ardent
- disturbed
- ecstatic
- emotive
- enthusiastic
- excitable
- exciting
- falling apart
- fanatical
- feeling
- fervent
- fervid
- fickle
- fiery
- heartwarming
- heated
- histrionic
- hot-blooded
- hysterical
- impassioned
- impetuous
- impulsive
- irrational
- moving
- nervous
- overwrought
- passionate
- pathetic
- poignant
- responsive
- roused
- sensitive
- sentient
- sentimental
- spontaneous
- stirred
- stirring
- susceptible
- tear-jerking
- temperamental
- tender
- thrilling
- touching
- warm
- zealous
- alive
- allusive
- articulate
- artistic
- brilliant
- colorful
- demonstrative
- dramatic
- eloquent
- emphatic
- energetic
- forcible
- graphic
- indicative
- ingenious
- lively
- masterly
- meaningful
- mobile
- moving
- passionate
- pathetic
- pictorial
- picturesque
- poignant
- pointed
- pregnant
- representative
- responsive
- revelatory
- showy
- significant
- silver-tongued
- spirited
- stimulating
- stirring
- striking
- strong
- suggestive
- sympathetic
- tender
- thoughtful
- touching
- understanding
- vivid
- warm
- abandoned
- alone
- bereft
- blue
- cheerless
- comfortless
- cynical
- defenseless
- depressed
- deserted
- desolate
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- destitute
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- down and out
- dragging
- forgotten
- forsaken
- friendless
- fruitless
- futile
- godforsaken
- helpless
- homeless
- in the dumps
- lonely
- lonesome
- lost
- miserable
- oppressed
- pathetic
- pessimistic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- solitary
- tragic
- unhappy
- vain
- weighed down
- woebegone
- wretched
- agonizing
- appalling
- atrocious
- calamitous
- damaging
- deplorable
- dire
- dismal
- disquieting
- distressing
- disturbing
- dreadful
- egregious
- flagrant
- glaring
- grave
- harmful
- heart-rending
- heavy
- heinous
- hurtful
- injurious
- intolerable
- lamentable
- monstrous
- mournful
- offensive
- onerous
- oppressive
- outrageous
- pathetic
- pitiful
- sad
- shameful
- sharp
- shocking
- sorrowful
- taxing
- tough
- tragic
- troublesome
- unbearable
- upsetting
- villainous
- weighty
- wounding
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