How To Use piteously 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
- Then she lifted her body, piteously, the sweet, rounded centralities of her, to me. Guardsman Of Gor
- 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
- 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
- Ever before the celebration of his mass, ere he revested him, he kneeled down before the altar, and devoutly made his prayer, weeping and piteously sighing, and oft-times as he celebrated his mass plenty of tears fell from his eyes along his face. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
- The cat meowed piteously and followed her throughout the room.
- If they could treat thee thus despiteously, he would surely not have made thee a good husband," reasoned the sister. Grisly Grisell
- Eight of the Germans, piteously bleating "Kamerad" stood against the wall near the door, their hands stretched high above their heads. The Apartment Next Door
- Morgan shuffled along, as if a cripple, his feet dragging piteously on the floor.
- And then the bear cometh and is an - hungered, and the log that hangeth there on high letteth him: and he putteth away the wedge despiteously, but after the removing the wedge falleth again and hitteth him on the ear. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus