Adjective : tragic solemnity. ,a tragic plight. ,a tragic event. ,the tragic drama. ,a tragic actor; a tragic poet. ,lives that had never known anything but the tragic. From Dictionary.com.
And Gorgias used to call tragical poems cheats, wherein he that did cheat was juster than he that did not cheat, and he that was cheated was wiser than he that was not cheated. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
The words are as 'tragical' and tender as were those of the melancholy Jaques. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He thought, with bitterness so real that it gave him a kind of tragical satisfaction, how certainly he could find him. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
The ballad is tragical, but in an abstract manner. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Thus ended the most tragical event I ever witnessed. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
A wave of tragical desire rolled into the young man's heart. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
No vice is too filthy, no crime too tragical for the drunkard. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
It is pathetic, tragical, and calculated to awaken the deepest emotions. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Unhappily this voyage was brief, and very nearly tragical in its finish. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
He replied, "Why, the Bard's tragical history of the bloody Scot, certes.". From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
So she had driven to a tragical encounter the only being whom she loved. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Faustus assured them that it was all in vain, and that his tragical fate was inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
He uttered that phrase in a tragical voice, the sincerity of which the two Italians felt. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We made penguin love in the nest and were soon tragical divorced in a legal nest provision. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest] Reference
But he was too experienced in such affairs to indulge any tragical emotions on the occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Hagar, closing her eyes tight as she uttered the words, but looking otherwise very tragical. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
While I am recollecting, many, I question not, are experiencing the same tragical vicissitude. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales] Reference
The tragical cases of the earlier heroic age are found repeated, with variations, in the Sagas. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
The rapid metamorphosis, so tragical and so striking, caused Boleslas to forget his own anguish. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Fate had created a tragical resemblance between these two lives, separated by more than five centuries. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Of the many voyages of exploration that followed, Sir John Franklin's last expedition was the most tragical. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
How lovely she appeared to him that evening with, those two expressions which gave her an almost tragical look!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The painter paused, and his friends remained some moments silent, musing on the tragical history they had heard. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
In their definite tragical situations and problems, the Sagas are akin to the older poetry of the Teutonic race. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
The other, whose death would at least have given a tragical issue to the adventure, Boleslas had scarcely touched. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I must caution my readers, however, from imagining that, because the tragical event which immediately precedes the. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Many of them contain in a short space the matter of stories more complicated, more tragical, than the story of Achilles. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
But from his graduation at Williams, onward to the hour of his tragical death, Garfield's career was eminent and exceptional. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Thus ended a peaceable but inglorious, a plentiful but luxurious reign, to make room for another more turbulent and tragical. From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
You have, "continued he," a happy countenance, and this inscription speaks of an infidel, whose end must be fatal and tragical. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
That gayety would become tragical if it were true that the Countess's other lover had returned unexpectedly, warned by some one. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The tragical death of one who, with some failings, deserved the affection and respect of his country, procured eventually to the Earl of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Menko warmly grasped his friend's thin and emaciated hand; and, the last farewell spoken to the fanatic departing for some tragical adventure, the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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