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Word: compassionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Usage:

The ventilation of examination rooms is always a pleasing subject to write upon. But we doubt if it is so pleasing for the students who toil on their examinations in these rooms. It seems to be a regular feature of examination rooms to be too cold when we want them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1884 | See Source »

The Nation says in regard to the proposed subscription fund for the family of the late Professor Ko Kun Hua: "The incident of Mr. Ko's death and burial, with every token of sympathy and respect on the part of his colleagues, must already have had a humanizing effect on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/4/1882 | See Source »

The following, from the New York Independent, puts Oscar in his true light : "Mrs. Julia Ward Howe really seems very naive in her expression that as `the representatives of tender hope and divine compassion,' women can properly associate with and patronize Oscar Wilde. 'Tender hope and divine compassion' are not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/2/1882 | See Source »

All anger melted in him to compassion,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

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