It was too pathetic for the feelings of Sophia and myselföwe fainted alternately on the sofa.

-Austen,Jane
  Love and Freindship,'Letter the 8th'.

Love is a very papithatick thing as well as troublesom & tiresome but O Isabella forbid me to speak about it.

-Fleming, Marjory
  'Journal 3' in F Sidgwick (ed)  The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

-Hughes,Ted (Edward James)
  'View of a Pig'.