"Condolence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at each other's expense. The monotony of social life is more frequently disturbed by fashionable funerals than by these amusements; and, as the principal families are inter-related, the rules of condolence keep the best part of society in mourning, and the best pianos and guitars silent for at least ...
— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton
... he, "you must pay the Goodwins another visit—a visit, mark you, of sympathy and condolence. You forget all the unpleasant circumstances that have occurred between the families. You forget everything but your anxiety for the ...
— The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... you, Ed Collier,' I says to him, 'and no hard feelings. For myself, I am projected to be an unseldom eater, and I have condolence ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... by obsequies so widespread or more sincere. Messages of condolence poured in upon the widow from the four quarters of the globe. Business was suspended. For five minutes telegraph clicks and cable flashes ceased, and for ten minutes, upon many lines of railway and street railway, ...
— History of the United States, Volume 5 • E. Benjamin Andrews
... Stornaway was to give an evening party which was to combine congratulatory welcome with a touch of condolence for the past ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
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