piteous

How To Use piteous In A Sentence

• And he hath indignation thereof, and putteth away the wedge despiteously and right fiercely, and then the wedge falleth and smiteth him harder than it did before, and he striveth so long with the wedge, until his feeble head doth fail by oft smiting of the wedge, and then he falleth down upon the pricks and stakes, and slayeth himself in that wise. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
• The court proved immune to these piteous cries and upheld the sentence, anyway.
• Then she lifted her body, piteously, the sweet, rounded centralities of her, to me. Guardsman Of Gor
• To this day I recall the piteous expressions of two or three of these wounded horses, as they raised their heads in their suffering and looked at us as we passed between them. Arthur Peronneau Ford. "Life in the Confederate Army; Being Personal Experiences ..."
• Residents -- whether for the purposes unblushingly avowed by that sometime favourite of the stage, Mr. Eccles, or for the reasons less horrifying to the United Kingdom Alliance -- found themselves more at home in "Caesarea" than in "Sarnia," and the "five-pounder," as the summer tripper was despiteously called by natives, liked to go as far as he could for his money, and found St. Helier's "livelier" than A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
• Never in my life had I ever heard such a piteous sound.
• Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. Across China on Foot
• I think there is a better word than 'piteous' -- yes, Clement had just told it me. Peterkin
• Nor did he have to present himself as piteous in order to feed his everlasting hunger for sympathy.
• She frowns softly, more of a piteous look than a displeased one.