tragical

And Gorgias used to call tragical poems cheats, wherein he that did cheat was juster than he that did not cheat, and he that was cheated was wiser than he that was not cheated.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

While he was in this irresolute mind there came to the court certain players, in whom Hamlet formerly used to take delight, and particularly to hear one of them speak a tragical speech, describing the death of old Priam, King of Troy, with the grief of Hecuba his queen.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1878

While he was in this irresolute mind there came to the court certain players, in whom Hamlet formerly used to take delight, and particularly to hear one of them speak a tragical speech, describing the death of old Priam, King of Troy, with the grief of Hecuba his queen.

Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805

While he was in this irresolute mind there came to the court certain players, in whom Hamlet formerly used to take delight, and particularly to hear one of them speak a tragical speech, describing the death of old

Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805

Some reluctance to recall tragical or humiliating scenes, and, by thus recalling to endure them, in some sense,

Jane Talbot Charles Brockden Brown 1790

The words are as 'tragical' and tender as were those of the melancholy Jaques.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Maybe some premonition -- some such smother at the heart as Hamlet knew -- came to him then, made him almost statue-like in his quiet and filled his face with a kind of tragical beauty.

An Unpardonable Liar Gilbert Parker 1897

He thought, with bitterness so real that it gave him a kind of tragical satisfaction, how certainly he could find him

A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 5 William Dean Howells 1878

He thought, with bitterness so real that it gave him a kind of tragical satisfaction, how certainly he could find him a little later at Mrs. Leighton's; and Fulkerson's happiness became an added injury.

Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

He thought, with bitterness so real that it gave him a kind of tragical satisfaction, how certainly he could find him

A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878