sympathetic

• Its tone is sympathetic, and neither the negro nor the sectional question plays a part. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• And yet mixed up in the woman there was a mental quality very rare and sympathetic, a strange fitful brilliance, extremely pleasing. —  There was a King in Egypt
• She thought him sympathetic--the first expressively sympathetic person she had ever met. —  Chance A Tale in Two Parts
• Many a time was I a spectator--I fear sometimes an irreverent one--of this ritual, but always privileged and welcome; always, of course, sympathetic, and always in a way envious of the qualities of mind and extraordinary knowledge which made the whole work a labour of love to them It so fell out that two days after the meeting in John Hammond's shop the parties met at Houghton, and the first of many foregatherings took place that day in the well-remembered Sheep-bridge hut--Marryat, Francis, Carlisle ("South-West"), and Halford. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
• She is under an observation that is intelligent and sympathetic, and she is sure of the kindest construction of all her actions. —  The Education of American Girls

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