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Updated: May 21, 2025
Today, hearing of his sons' death, let Dhritarashtra, that king of men, stupefied and prostrate on the Earth, feel the most poignant anguish. Let him know today that the son of Kunti is possessed of great might among all bowmen. Today that sinful and wicked-hearted king will censure his own self. Let him recollect today the time and beneficial words of Vidura.
From below there rose the sound of thumping, smothered Teutonic protests, and a long, poignant, and unmistakably feminine wail. "All finish, captain," said Sasa, coming up to me cheerfully. "Would you mind telling me what it's all about?" I asked. "Just a little tongafiti to bring loving hearts together," said Sasa.
He had only to fix his mind upon Farmer Fleming's conception of his wealth, to feel the miserable smallness of what seemed legitimately his own; and he felt it with so poignant an emotion that at times his fears of death were excited by the knowledge of a dead man's impotence to suggest hazy margins in the final exposure of his property.
And precisely as beauty touched in him the most exquisite and poignant depths, so evil surroundings, evil faces dismayed him to the point of mysterious fear, almost terror On a Sunday of his honeymoon in London he had conceived with Mabel the idea of a bus ride through the streets, "anywhere, the first bus that comes."
He forgot the prize-fight, the very sound of the pugilists' feet upon the bare boards of the stage ceased to be audible to his ears. He ached like a man bruised and beaten; he was possessed with a sense of loneliness, poignant as pain. "If I had only taken the easier way, bought and never cared!" he cried despairingly. "But at all events there's no need for respect.
Bedient saw that he must give more than this, and waited for the way.... The most poignant and heart-wringing experience for him in New York was suddenly to find himself in the midst of the harried human herd, when it was trying to play. One can best read a city's tragedy at its pleasure-places. ...Beth Truba was his great ignition.
Isabel looked around with a poignant realization of the broken company over into which she had so swiftly crossed. She had never before been in the church when it was empty. How hushed and solemn it waited in its noonday twilight the Divine already there, faithful keeper of the ancient compact; the human not yet arrived.
So that we enjoyed for an instant a picture of free life on the road, in its most luxurious forms of despatch and comfort. And thereafter, with a poignant feeling of contrast in our hearts, we must mount again into our wheeled dungeon. We came to our stages at all sorts of odd hours, and they were in all kinds of odd places. I may say at once that my first experience was my best.
In Norhala's face as she watched it go was a dismay, a poignant uncertainty, that held in it something indescribably pitiful. "I am afraid!" I heard her whisper. She tightened her grasp upon dreaming Ruth; motioned us to go within. We passed, silently; behind us she came, followed by three of the great globes, by a pair of her tetrahedrons. Beside a pile of the silken stuffs she halted.
He did not know then, and he never knew, that she mortally disliked it, and that in a career in which she was constantly exposing herself to offence and laceration, her most poignant suffering came from the injury of her taste.
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