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Sentences ending with pitiful

And he is so homely!--so scrawny, and ribby, and coarse-haired, and pitiful. [5]
Pale, shaky, dumb, pitiful? [5]
Yes, it was pitiful. [5]
If that isn't pitiful! [10]
When I think of her, our plots seem to me unutterably pitiful. [10]
Her worshipping maid, near dead with fatigue, watched her furtively, but avoided the eyes in the mirror which had a half-angry look, a look at once disturbed and elated, reckless and pitiful. [11]
See what a hard time inventors and men of genius have; it is pitiful. [4]
Her wonderful bronze hair only made the contrast more pitiful. [9]
He was exceedingly grave, but he was even more pitiful. [4]
Will you be brave, quixotic, but not pitiful? [11]

Short sentences using pitiful

It was pitiful to see. [5]
Oh, the pitiful thing! [11]
Oh, the pitiful pretext! [5]
Oh, ye pitiful gods! [10]
Isn't it pitiful? [5]

More example sentences with the word pitiful in them

Then the eyes would grow pitiful at my helplessness, and she would murmur my name. [9]
The greater the works which the traveller's eyes beheld, the more insignificant he felt, the more pitiful his own powers, his own skill appeared. [10]
Productions without talent, without spirit, without discrimination, flat and pitiful eulogies, exaggerations surpassing the limits of the most robust faith, invectives against such as dared to doubt the dogmas which had been proclaimed, or catalogues of remedies; of such materials is it composed! [3]
That's the way with you whining, puny, pitiful players. [12]
He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and self-confident. [2]
He ordered wine with a royal flourish and said: "I never dine without wine, sir" (which was a pitiful falsehood), and looked around upon the company to bask in the admiration he expected to find in their faces. [5]
They followed, some with a cheer that was most pitiful of all. [9]
Do you know what a shameful neglect is at the most pitiful time in your life? [11]
If I said well it would not be true; if I said ill, I should be surrounded with pitiful faces, which are not pleasant to look at. [10]
But Edith's lot was the most pitiful of all. [4]
The stout man was sitting with his rubicund moon-face towards the architect, who, indignant as he was, would have gone straight up to him with swift decision, if, before entering the second room, a low but pitiful sob had not fallen on his ear. [10]
Poor lads, it was pitiful to see, they were so pale, so worn, so troubled. [5]
And their agitation was a pitiful thing to see. [9]
One thing alone was a comfort to me, and that was that my heart beat with more pitiful and faithful love for him than ever. [10]
Eliphalet had reflected upon this incident after he had bid the overseer good-by at Cairo, and had seen that pitiful coffle piled aboard a steamer for New Orleans. [9]
The figure sank upon the ground and buried a pitiful face in the wet grass. [11]
Not a lip trembled nor an eye faltered when a backwoodsman, his memory aflame at sight of the pitiful white scalps on their belts, thrust through the crowd to curse them. [9]
It was only too natural that his strength should fail him, so, without feeling at all alarmed but only very pitiful and anxious to help, she ran back to a fruit-stall which they had passed at the entrance to the garden from the street. [10]
But Anne had told her that his anxiety was a pitiful thing to see, and that it had left him perceptibly weaker. [9]
It is pitiful to think upon. [5]
It is pitiful to think of these things. [5]
It is pitiful to think of it. [4]
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homoeopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. [5]
But they had to testify now, and they did--and pitiful it was to see how reluctant they were, and how scared. [5]
It was pitiful to see the strong man tossing on the flood of disordered understanding, a willing castaway, yet stretching out a hand to be saved. [11]
It was pitiful to see how the people in his train who did not belong to the number of those who were to accompany him to Jarandilla behaved at the parting from their beloved master. [10]
It was pitiful to see a creature so terrified, so unnerved, so demoralized. [5]
I forced myself to endure it as long as I could, but it was too pitiful a sight; so I made frank confession to that effect, and we retired. [5]
He was very thin and sallow, and his large feverish eyes added to the pitiful look of his refined face. [4]
I don't mean these pitiful burns, but a deep and deadly one. [10]
The pathos of the thing caught him in the throat--for her how pitiful, how unhappy! [11]
She turned towards the sound with a pitiful vagueness. [11]
I had not the remotest desire to play upon any one's confidence with a practical joke, for he is a pitiful creature indeed who will degrade the dignity of his humanity to the contriving of the witless inventions that go by that name. [5]
He had heard the last pitiful words of his mistress. [9]
If to avoid the fleeting censure of aristocratic friends he left in the lurch the simple barbarian maiden who loved him with ardent passion, it was no evidence of resolute strength of soul, but of pitiful, reprehensible weakness. [10]
Perhaps this was the "word," and if not, it was the highest, most exquisite, most precious thing in life, beside which everything else seemed small, pitiful and insipid. [10]
It seemed pitiful that society could do absolutely nothing for me. [4]
There was something terribly deliberate in her strangeness; it was full of awe to the beholder, more searching and painfully pitiful than melancholy. [11]
As he again surveyed the events of the past, he could truly say that under his leadership pitiful bondmen had speedily become brave warriors In the field they had been willing and obedient and, after the victory, behaved with manliness. [10]
But those who surrendered, while remaining in the same pitiful plight, would be on a lower level to claim a share in the necessities of life. [2]
Took into Cynthia's suddenly exalted consciousness and see the picture, actual and potential, unroll itself in all its details of the natural, the ridiculous, the selfish, the pitiful, the human. [6]
He had blindly struggled on to die near her, near where she was, she was so pitiful and good. [11]
Now the dwarf spoke again: "It was rather pitiful, rather small, in you to refuse to read that poor young woman's manuscript the other day, and give her an opinion as to its literary value; and she had come so far, too, and so hopefully. [5]
What a pitiful spectacle was disclosed then! [5]
There is nothing so pitiful about habitual hypocrisy as that it never deceives anybody. [4]
Poor old Uncle Silas--why, it's pitiful, him trying to curry favor that way--so hard pushed and poor, and yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his ornery brother. [5]
With an effort she conquered herself, wiped away the tears, and said aloud, with a whimsical but none the less pitiful self-reproach, "Kitty- Kitty Tynan, what a fool you are! [11]
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle-headedness--and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all. [5]
At noon he returned home, saying that the Spaniards had taken the Hague and been hailed with delight by the pitiful adherents of the king. [10]
On some pitiful pretext he deserted her, to form another marriage. [10]
There is Freeman--that's pitiful; there is Clare Hazard--that's pitiful and horrible. [11]
Pomfrette's face was pitiful to see--drawn, staring. [11]
Joan's distress was pitiful to see. [5]
It was real pitiful to see him. [5]
It was a pitiful thing to look upon. [9]
That is the pitiful side of all rhymed verse. [6]
Then came the pitiful Revolution, the sundering of all ties, the elder man left to drag out his few weary days before a shattered altar. [9]
There are more pitiful intellects in this Congress! [5]
It was more pitiful even than that. [4]
Her smile was pitiful and anxious, but her words were brave. [11]
There was a pause, then we herd muffled sobbings, mixed with pitiful ejaculations. [5]
He must sit opposite his father day by day at table, talk with him, care for him, shrinking inwardly at every knock at the door lest it should be an officer come to carry the pitiful traitor off to prison. [11]
Then, all at once, as if conscious of the pitiful humour of his meditations, he came to his feet, straightened his shoulders, and cried: "To her we love best! [11]
It was at once touching, and pitiful, to see how closely he lived with the Manes of his dead. [10]
All those resources of my first year's imprisonment had gone, and I was alone: my mouse was dead; there was no history of my life to write, no incident to break the pitiful monotony. [11]
If she thought of Mr. Lyon occasionally, of his white face and pitiful look of suffering that day, she could not, after all, make it real or permanently serious. [4]
The pitiful understanding of life was there and a consummate gentleness. [11]
Yet, his fear of incurring his brother's displeasure was pitiful, regardless of the fact that he constantly employed the very means to insure that result. [5]
I was ashamed of being in my own pitiful company. [5]
When the knight noticed this, an overwhelming pity chased the anger from his heart, and George, who was a soft-hearted man, sobbed aloud at her pitiful appearance. [10]
Howbeit I had not long ceased when the stern old man cried out in pitiful entreaty. [10]
Napoleon himself is no longer of any account; all his actions are evidently pitiful and mean, but again an inexplicable chance occurs. [2]
He was in need of stimulants, and he held up a pitiful two-ounce phial containing three thimblefuls--of brandy,--his whole stock of that encouraging article. [6]
It drove the mother wild with grief and shame, and she forsook her work and went daily about the town, cursing the carpenter and blaspheming the laws of the emperor and the church, and it was pitiful to see. [5]
Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seemed like I couldn't ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. [5]
Was this the Margaret who had walked with Lyon that Sunday afternoon of the baptism, and had a heart full of pain for the pitiful suffering of the world? [4]
In haste she made herself ready, and went forth into the night with the messenger, her heart beating hard, a pitiful anxiety shaking her. [11]
It was not love which drew Antony after me, not love that trampled in the dust the radiant image of reckless courage, not love that constrained the demigod to follow the pitiful track of a fugitive woman. [10]
How pitiful it is, this contest of a woman who has only her own love, her own virtue, with the world and its allurements and seductions, for the possession of her husband's heart! [4]
Follow the pitiful inventory of insignificances of the forlorn being he describes with a pathetic humor more likely to bring a sigh than a smile, and then mark the grand hyperbole of the last two lines. [6]
No need to interpret the swift glance that their eyes exchanged--the eager, the pitiful glance. [4]
Then it was, in her fear of soul and pitiful loneliness, that her lover--the man she would have died for-- seemed to have deserted her. [11]
Yet these pains in her body, this alternate exaltation and depression, this pitiful weakness! [11]
Nature is pitiless in carrying out the universal sentence, but very pitiful in her mode of dealing with the condemned on his way to the final scene. [6]
It was pitiful, In a whole city-full, Gas we had none. [5]
For it was impossible to be angry with a little coxcomb of such pitiful intelligence. [9]
It was wonderful how many of this chance company had little "histories"--comic, tragic, pitiful, interesting enough for the pages of a novel. [4]
The pitiful and hopeless part of it is that if she had been in sympathy with them, Jack would have gone on in his frivolous career at an accelerated pace. [4]
The thought of his sister filled him with a desire, a pitiful desire to live. [11]
So he set his leg and bandaged it up, and fixed his ribs and gave him a dose of something to quiet down his excitement and put him to sleep--poor thing he was trembling and frightened to death and it was pitiful to see him. [5]
His past was here--its posing, its folly, its pitiful uselessness, and its shame. [11]
She stretched out her arms to her husband with a pitiful cry. [11]
He was a handsome fellow, and he made a fine statuesque picture of terror, but it was pitiful to see him suffer so. [5]
Pitiful, haggard lines had come into it in the last half-hour, and they deepened still more. [11]
When Mrs. Fletcher had called again and again, with no response, and finally opened the door and peeped in, there the spinster sat by the window, the pitiful little bonnet in her hand, and the tears rolling down her cheeks. [4]
Stripped of the green magnolias and the cane, the banks of clay stood forth in hideous yellow nakedness, save for a lonely stunted growth, or a bare trunk that still stood tottering on the edge of a banks its pitiful withered roots reaching out below. [9]
There--now get thee gone, lest I shame mine honourable soldiership with the slaying of so pitiful a mannikin! [5]
She kept her furniture pretty damp, and so caught cold, and the dampness and the cold and the sorrow together undermined her appetite, and she was a pitiful enough object, poor thing. [5]
The pitiful groans from all sides and the torturing pain in his thigh, stomach, and back distracted him. [2]
He had gone forth to slay, and had been foiled by shadows; he had come with a tragic, if beautiful, memory haunting him, and that memory had clothed itself in flesh and stood before him, pitiful, solitary,--a woman. [11]

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