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Sentences ending with piteous

Unable to awe Sally Drover's spirit, she would grow piteous. [9]
He seemed to rearrange the motions of his mind with a little of the old vanity, which was at once grotesque and piteous. [11]

Sentences containing piteous two or more times

It is as you say, dear old friend, "the pathos of it" yes, it was a piteous thing--as piteous a tragedy as any the year can furnish. [5]

More example sentences with the word piteous in them

They are piteous wails, too, wails of despair; and one of them is an eloquent reproach; it comes from a poor fellow who has been laden beyond his strength by a stupid teacher, and is eloquent in spite of the poverty of its English. [5]
Suddenly she turned upon them with a gesture of piteous triumph and said: "You cannot have him now. [11]
It was piteous to see the anxious look of the hunted, half-drowned creature as--it came to the surface and caught sight of the dog. [4]
That speechless tongue, those prisoned features, that heart so freighted with unspoken troubles, and that breast so oppressed with its piteous secret had been here. [5]
There are few things in literature that are more piteous, more pathetic, than the celebrated "humorous" incident of Moses and the spectacles. [5]
Their piteous cry the neighbors heard, And then the cry of fire was given; But, ah! [5]
They forgot that the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it would still remain piteous and plain. [2]
The readers of the charming story "A Week in a French Country-House" will remember poor Monsieur Jacque's piteous cry in the night: "Ursula, art thou asleep? [6]
His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless efforts to seem calm. [2]
Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess' pretty face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. [2]
The old man spoke, with a piteous kind of joy: "We therefore commit her body to the deep--! [11]
The Chevalier was speaking most earnestly: "To a nunnery--a piteous shame! [11]
All the time Rosalie knelt at the foot of the bed, her piteous tearless eyes for ever fixed on his face. [11]
However, her piteous prayer that Philippus would not abandon her to her fate had prevailed to induce him to continue to see her, in the hope of possibly restricting her use of the drug. [10]
He made a piteous, frightened face and bent down. [2]
The operation was performed successfully, and Varley had issued from the operating-room with the look of a man who had gone through an ordeal which had taxed his nerve to the utmost, to find Valerie Meydon waiting, with a piteous, dazed look in her eyes. [11]
Her voice rang out now valiant and clear, now searching and piteous, yet reaching to where the farthermost person knelt, and was lost upon the lake and in the spreading trees. [11]
Piteous, helpless, animal moans came through the door. [2]
Yet verily he it was, and Ann flung herself on her knees by the bed, and it was right piteous to hear her cry: "Poor, faithful Eppelein! [10]
And so, although it seems a piteous thing to sweat this poor ancient devil for a burglary he hadn't the least hand in, still if duty commands I suppose we must give him up to the authorities. [5]
We had brief intervals of grim stillness, interrupted with piteous regularity by the clash made by the falling of an iron-clad; and this sort of thing was going on, right along, and was very creepy there in the dark and lonesomeness. [5]
He figured her in his mind as pale and distressed, and always her eyes had the piteous terror of that last look as she went away over the hills. [11]
I have seen his torture, the piteous, ignoble yielding, and the struggle, with more than mortal energy, to be master of himself. [11]
The cry on her lips was that which she had seen in the newspaper the day before, the cry of the shipwrecked seafarers, the signal of the wireless telegraphy, "S. O. S."--the piteous call, "Save Our Souls! [11]
And I remember her as she sat in church Sundays, the whiteness of her face enhanced by the crape she wore, and a piteous appeal in her gray eyes. [9]
After a moment he made a piteous gesture of his hand towards the kitchen, and whispered to himself in a kind of reassurance. [11]
Diomedes averred that he had never beheld a more piteous spectacle than the gigantic man hovering between heaven and earth in the agonies of death and, while suffering the most terrible torture, extending his arms longingly towards the woman he loved. [10]
The roar of guns, the whistling of projectiles, and the piteous moaning of the cook, which rose above the other sounds, did not cease for a moment. [2]
Please get it for me and put it under for a moment," he pleaded in a piteous voice. [2]
Good was the fight--good, till a piteous dream Crept from some direful covert of despair; Showed me your look, that look so true and fair, Distant and bleak; for me no more to gleam. [11]
She had ever distorted or inflamed the facts of life by an overheated fancy, by the spirit of romance, by a gift--or curse--of imagination, which had given her also dark visions of a miserable end, of a clouded and piteous close to her brief journey. [11]
But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for pardon. [2]
There had come but one letter from her since that hour when he saw her in the Seigneur's coach with her father, moving away in the still autumn air, a piteous appeal in her eyes. [11]
Yet sardonically piteous as it was, the incident had shown Jean Jacques with the germ of something big in him. [11]
Loud and piteous are his cries; To Venus quick he runs, he flies; "Oh mother! [10]
She was proud and glad, and piteous and triumphant and deeply womanly all at once. [11]
In his sleep among the guns and the piteous, mutilated dead, he had gone a pilgrimage to a Distant Place and had been told the secret of the world. [11]
A cloud passed across the sky, the illusion grew, and hearts quivered in piteous sympathy. [11]
He asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. [2]

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