What is "sympathise"

Usage examples of "sympathise".

I listened in profound silence, sympathising with the countryman rather than my host, whom I believed to be a thorough-paced scoundrel, though I took care not to say so.

I was little more than a boy, has the faults, and perhaps the merits, natural to a very early age,--when the novelty itself of life quickens the observation,--when we see distinctly, and represent vividly, what lies upon the surface of the world,--and when, half sympathising with the follies we satirise, there is a gusto in our paintings which atones for their exaggeration.

Jeremy has experienced the frustration of powerlessness and he sympathises, but there is one question he cannot resist.

And yet, almost he could sympathise with the entrepreneurial Vanguards men.

The first of these, /Pelham/, composed when I was little more than a boy, has the faults, and perhaps the merits, natural to a very early age,--when the novelty itself of life quickens the observation,--when we see distinctly, and represent vividly, what lies upon the surface of the world,--and when, half sympathising with the follies we satirise, there is a gusto in our paintings which atones for their exaggeration.

He and his four friends had followed Sakyamuni into the Uruvilva desert, sympathising with him in the austerities he endured, and hoping that they would issue in his Buddhaship.

I beg you to receive it as the loving recreation of one who sympathises with the people of who you come, and honours their virtues, and who has no fear for the unity, and no doubt as to the splendid future, of the nation, whose fibre is got of the two great civilising races of Europe.

And for those damages she now appeals to an enlightened, a high-minded, a right-feeling, a conscientious, a dispassionate, a sympathising, a contemplative jury of her civilised countrymen.

She had been under a constant strain since her grandfather's death, and although she sympathised with her stepsister, she couldn't stop herself from saying tartly, "You shouldn't sneer at them, Grama, since it's people like the Dobsons who have the commodity you seem to covet.

Although he sympathised with the revolt of the settlers led by Big Jo Ortiz in 1960, he still felt the lack of progress in smashing the fellagha once and for all was simply a tactical move by De Gaulle.

Morel usually quarrelled with her lace woman, sympathised with her fruit man -- who was a gabey, but his wife was a bad 'un -- laughed with the fish man -- who was a scamp but so droll -- put the linoleum man in his place, was cold with the odd-wares man, and only went to the crockery man when she was driven -- or drawn by the cornflowers on a little dish.

I know that, looking to leeward, there was a tendancy to keep well together, in which I sympathised.