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Sentences starting with pity

Pity I got you a piano, then," said Dryfoos. [8]
Pity but they would repent of these dreadful things--and maybe they will yet. [5]
Pity me, then, who had to endure three. [5]
Pity but style was marketable. [5]
Pity led him to go to him and, to his astonishment, he recognized the runner and messenger of Kasana's father, with whom he had often talked. [10]
Pity I didn't think of it before I wrote the usurper. [5]
Pity is for the living, Envy is for the dead. [5]
Pity but somebody'd take that poor old lunatic and dig all that poetry rubbage out of him. [5]
Pity for the poor mariner! [5]
Pity the poor mother. [5]

Sentences ending with pity

Do that, or you will go to ruin, and that would be a pity! [10]
But better if you had been that woman in the Morgue," he said without pity. [11]
Bound a hundred years ago, perhaps, and one of the rich old browned covers gone--what a pity! [6]
See thou the wreck this fiend hath made, and let thy heart be moved with pity! [5]
Her heart filled with pity. [11]
Paula's heart thrilled with indignation, grief and pity. [10]
She did know when it had begun, but again it filled her with a bitter-sweet sense of pity. [10]
Who can say what cows feel, when they surround and stare intently on a dying or dead companion; apparently, however, as Houzeau remarks, they feel no pity. [1]
I sit and watch, and I feel a pity. [11]
Somewhat later it was mentioned that Tom was to study no more at present, whereupon her little ladyship exclaimed-- "'Tis a pity, 'tis a pity! [5]

Short sentences using pity

What a pity that is. [5]
They--they pity us, Stephen. [9]
I pity them poor things. [5]
It's a great pity. [9]
It is a pity. [14]
She has no pity. [11]
It was a pity. [10]
Saint Margaret have pity! [5]
It is a pity! [10]
O great Sun, pity me! [11]

Sentences containing pity two or more times

The pity in this man's voice and words was the very twin of the pity that used to reside in his own heart and come from his own lips when he thought of these oppressed peoples. [5]
It was a pity, a measureless pity, as Mary the Mother must have seen, if she could see mortal life at all, that Zoe did not hear him. [11]
Pity, that was; pity to put that kind of a strain on us, because there was bad blood between us from a couple of weeks back, and we was only friends in the way of business. [5]
She felt, indeed, pity for Lise, but something within her seemed to have hardened--something that pity could not melt, possessing her and thrusting heron to action. [9]
Why, a people off there whom you pity, and who don't need pity. [11]
But there is nothing they pity as they pity a lonely young man. [6]
Again, pity seemed never more out of place, yet pity was Hodder's dominant feeling as he met the coldness, the relentlessness of the glance. [9]
In men's hearts love is commonly extinguished when pity begins, while admiration acts like sunshine on the budding plant of a woman's inclination, and pity is the glory which radiates from her heart. [10]
Pity us, dear Lord, pity us! [6]
And yet his image was never long absent from her thoughts; she wondered if he were dejected, if he were ill, if he were lonely, and mostly there was for him a great pity in her heart, a pity born, alas! [4]

More example sentences with the word pity in them

Caesar has made your father, and your neighbor Skopas, and every free man in the country a Roman citizen; but it is a pity that, while he gave each man his patent of citizenship, he should have filched the money out of his purse. [10]
I don't want you to pity me for it," she said, forestalling a politeness from Mrs. March. [8]
When you say you know that the immortals will have pity on the innocent woman whom they have led to the verge of the abyss, perhaps you may be right. [10]
It's a pity you ever went to Newcastle, I think. [9]
He did not yet feel pity for Hilary--for he was angry. [9]
Howbeit, my cousin would not do the like service for the Knight of Welemisl, in whose mien and manners he put less trust, wherefore I became his surety, out of sheer pity and at Herdegen's prayer. [10]
A few days would end it, for good or ill. Madame Chalice heard the news with consternation, and pity would have sent her to Valmond's bedside, but that she found Elise was his faithful nurse and servitor. [11]
With such persuasive words as pity and affection could suggest, they prevailed upon him to sit among them and hear what they should tell him. [12]
That is the wonder of it, the pity of it, and the joy of it. [11]
With all his will Venters strove for calmness and thought and judgment unbiased by pity, and reality unswayed by sentiment. [13]
I pity those who did not see it. [2]
A noble heart which sees itself forced to pity a foe, easily forgives; and was she ever your enemy? [10]
I knew not whether to pity or to be angry, such a strange blending she seemed of former pride and arrogance and later suffering. [9]
A pity you were not there--what would you have said? [2]
That the world went well with her, and that no obstacle was opposed to the gratification of her reasonable desires, or to her impulses of charity and pity, was about all she knew of her power. [4]
An unanticipated pity welled up within me for her loneliness, her despair in that room upstairs. [9]
Why, indeed, might we not feel pity for a woman whose brilliant career had been so suddenly extinguished in misfortune and crime? [5]
Let us not waste too much pity on "homeless" France. [5]
At first I was very cautious, but when I perceived that the opinions of the doubters and deniers merely inspired her with pity, I spoke more freely. [10]
When my father was killed and I was left a homeless orphan you had no pity for me, though your husband was my mother's brother. [9]
People said it was a pity to see him mar his successful career with a big prominent case like this, which must go against him. [5]
Some thought it was a pity that Joan had declined battle, some thought not. [5]
Perhaps the experience was a damage to him; and it is a pity that there was no one to explain that religion for a little fellow like him is not a "scheme. [4]
No, this nocturnal wanderer had left no hour of bliss behind him; and if his demeanor was calculated to rouse any feeling it was not envy, but pity. [10]
But as he walked languidly along, some ladies saw him across the street, and seeing, were moved with pity, and pitying, spoke such soft words that he was tempted to accept their invitation and rest awhile beneath their hospitable roof. [6]
He had that very day rejected, without pity, a noble Roman lady who petitioned for her husband's life, and with the same breath he had afterwards befooled her! [10]
I pity Prince Vasili but am still more sorry for Pierre. [2]
Well, I didn't understand, I had no pity, in that hour I felt a resentment almost amounting to hate; I could see only unreasoning superstition in the woman I wanted above everything in the world. [9]
There was something uncanny in this self-control, this sang froid with which he was wont to sit at boards waiting unmoved for the time when he should draw his net about his enemies, and strangle them without pity. [9]
He is a tyrant who knows no pity. [5]
Swinging in this tree-top, with a vivid consciousness of life, of his own capacity for action, it seemed a pity that he could not follow the drum and the flag into such contests as he read about so eagerly. [4]
Yet there was, too, a strange, deep, undefined pity welling up in her heart,--pity for Rudyard, and because of what she did not say directly even to her own soul. [11]
Perhaps it was too much to hope that he would mourn her sincerely, should the leap cost her life; but he would surely pity her, and he could never forget the moment of the fall, and therefore herself. [10]
Then, when she told me what my godfather required of me, I was not in any haste to obey, for, indeed, maidenly bashfulness and pity hindered me. [10]
You are going to the war and have no pity for me. [2]
He is resolved to take a little care of the former, in pity to the latter, which I applaud, and shall second with all, my might. [5]
His sympathy seemed to say to the living, "I wonder how soon you'll come into my hands," and to the dead, "What a pity you can only die once--and second-hand coffins so hard to get! [11]
Antinous had learnt to regard everything crippled or defective with aversion, as a monstrous failure of nature's plastic harmony, but to pity it tenderly; but now he felt quite differently. [10]
This had helped to make her so like the Roxana on the gem, and the change in her roused his pity. [10]
Now she began to look at it askance, as a fatal gift; and to pity, rather than envy, its possessors. [9]
It was new to him--he had never formulated it before--that pity and longing and striving were a justification and a proof. [9]
He drew near to her, as pale as she was, and wonder and pity were in his face. [11]
I begged him to have pity on me. [11]
You were about to glorify the pillory a while ago, and shed some pity on a future age that isn't going to use it. [5]
Be a pity to disappoint her--eh? [9]
When Benoit failed to come in the spring, they showed their pity for her by abusing him; and when she pleaded for him they said things which had an edge. [11]
They even wanted to buy the secret, and pay money for it; and if we could have invented something that would answer--but we couldn't; we hadn't the ingenuity, so we had to let the chance go by, and it was a pity. [5]
She was about to address the Bailly, but, as though a pang of pity shot, through her heart, she turned instead and looked at the Comtesse Chantavoine. [11]
I began at times to pity myself a little, to feel the need of sympathetic companionship --feminine companionship.... [9]
But yet at times he was moved by a strange pity, for Olivier Delagarde was, in truth, far older than his years: a thin, shuffling, pallid invalid, with a face of mingled sanctity and viciousness. [11]
A shudder ran through her frame, and a deep pity for the sweet creature whose coloured likeness she held in her hand seized upon her. [10]
The same haunting thought was in all minds there: the pity of this death, the going out into the great darkness, and the mother not here to help and hearten and bless. [5]
But perhaps she thought that human pity dwelt there, and would be more merciful than the teeth of the hounds. [4]
He had no thought of reading in it an element of pity. [9]
With the joyous thought in his heart, that he had discovered anew one of the greatest gold-fields of the world, that a journey unparalleled had been accomplished, he turned towards his ancient companion, and a feeling of pity and human love enlarged within him. [11]
She felt as though she bore a charm against his power since she had parted from her lover, and since the murder of the governor had opened her eyes to the true character of him on whom she had all too willingly expended her pity. [10]
The sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around him merged in Rostov's mind into a single feeling of terror and pity for himself. [2]
I was just thinking what a pity it is Dicky wouldn't realize it. [9]
But when we think calmly of those days, can we escape without a little pity for the aristocrats? [9]
And now a thing was noticeable again which had been noticeable more than once before--that there was pity for Joan in the hearts of many of these people. [5]
Always the same thin film of some emotional non-conductor between them; always that kind of habitual regard and family-interest, mingled with the deepest pity on one side and a sort of respect on the other, which never warmed into outward evidences of affection. [6]
It's a pity they couldn't do the acquiring, and let out the use of their learning to a few bright Americans. [8]
The pity of these for him--for Rudyard Byng, because the flower in his garden, his Jasmine-flower, was swept by the blast of calumny! [11]
But pity was there, with also a sense of inevitableness, of the continuance of things which she was too weak to alter. [11]
It was wasted there, and it seemed a pity. [5]
Between these two there had never been even the faint shadow of romance or passion; but in the terrible mystery of pain and humiliation, they had drawn together to help each other, through a breach of all social law, in pity of each other. [11]
Many people pity them, and I always did it myself and never charged anything; but it is doubtful if this compassion is valued. [5]
And they took them (oh, the pity of it! [9]
Now Luna saw the young Nuremberg merchant gaze after the Swiss with an expression of such deep anxiety and pain upon his manly features that she felt the utmost pity for him. [10]
In her mind the wife of the man she had discarded was a mere commonplace catastrophe, to be viewed without horror, maybe with pity. [11]
A sense of the striving and the suffering deeply possessed him; and this grew the more intense as he gained some knowledge of the forces at work-forces of pity, of destruction, of perdition, of salvation. [8]
It was for the ringleader, and Joan said it sorrowfully: "It is a pity that you should plot another's death when you own is so close at hand. [5]
Who says that the rich and the prosperous and the successful do not need pity? [4]
And yet, if the reader will pardon the confidence, pity intervened to shorten it. [4]
With other signs, the popular elections then just past indicated uneasiness among ourselves, while, amid much that was cold and menacing, the kindest words coming from Europe were uttered in accents of pity that we are too blind to surrender a hopeless cause. [7]
It was but the pity of her gentle heart, of a romantic nature. [11]
Appelles meets Zenobia, the helper of all who suffer, and tells her his story, which moves her pity. [5]
Then she opened the door wide, and disappeared into the darkness of the unlighted stairway, murmuring, "Pity--have pity on me, holy Mother, Vierge Marie! [11]
All Augsburg, all the dignitaries of the realm, even the Emperor, would pity her, and the end of her life would be as proud and as renowned as that of the chivalrous hero who dies victor on the stricken field. [10]
It was with the deepest pity that he thought of that poor, grief-stricken woman, and the idea flashed through his mind that the patriarch might have gone back to his mother to accuse him and to urge her to further revelations. [10]
But pity, concession, the condescension of a superior morality, were impossible to her proud mind. [11]
You can pity the bird which is shut into a cage too small for it, or the mule which breaks down under too heavy a load, and the cruelty which hurts them rouses your indignation. [10]
One must pity the animals too. [2]
When dealing with the affairs and papers of his dead wife, her memory aroused in him no feeling but pity that she had not known the bliss he now knew. [2]
What a pity that Zekle, who courted Huldy over the apples she was peeling, could not have made love as the bucolic youth does, when "Every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale! [6]
It was plain that the public trial had wrought damage: its proceedings had been discussed all over the town and had moved many to pity the abused prisoner. [5]
It's a pity that satiety so speedily ends it. [10]
What a pity that Protestantism does not make special provision for all the freaks of individual character! [6]
More's the pity that it should be so--not that I should be strong and hearty for my years, I mean, but that they should be weak and tender. [12]
I must confess that I owe Amasis no grudge for his conduct to me, on the contrary I pity him. [10]
He had believed that even the hardest hearts could not fail to pity his misery so, hard as it was for him, he had knocked at a peasant's door and begged. [10]
He saw the tears, the look of pity, indignation, pride, and love in her face. [11]
He had been taken into her room twice, and the beautiful pale face, with its large dark eyes, had filled his heart with pity. [10]
He tried to take her by storm, and when this method failed, resorted to pleadings and supplications even harder to deny because of the innate feminine pity she felt for him. [9]
Every face expressed sympathy, approval, pity, and at last Coello said: "Remain here, Navarrete. [10]
Then I realized suddenly what I had failed to grasp before,--she feared that I would pity her. [9]
And yet a sudden wave of pity for her rushed over him, because the conviction seized him that she would also in her heart take upon herself the burden of his guilt as though it were her own. [11]
And yet, he struck in her, standing helplessly smoking in the middle of the floor, chords of pity. [9]
While they were strong we didn't spare ourselves, but now we may even pity them. [2]
But Mavra Kuzminichna stood at the closed gate for some time with moist eyes, pensively swaying her head and feeling an unexpected flow of motherly tenderness and pity for the unknown young officer. [2]

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