Adjective : piteous cries for help. From Dictionary.com.
Multitudes perish by famine, a very sore judgment, and piteous is the case of those that fall under it. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
“O my lady, I am a banisht wight and with passion for a beloved one in piteous plight, nor with other will I consent to love-delight.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I think there is a better word than 'piteous' -- yes, Clement had just told it me. From Wordnik.com. [Peterkin] Reference
Isidore recalled the piteous words uttered by Marguerite as she dropped the letter, and the truth flashed across his mind at once. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
Was Tom, poor lad! in piteous plight —. From Wordnik.com. [Tom's Triumph] Reference
Till she left and left me in piteous plight. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
No, we are very comfortable, my child and I; you must not try to disturb us, "and he looked at me with a kind of piteous suspicion. From Wordnik.com. [The Landscape Chamber] Reference
Very piteous tales are told of what happened next. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
But the next day Rataplan presented a piteous sight. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
There he faltered, with a piteous sinking of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Odysseus tells her his piteous story and his cruel fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Every step we took our ears were saluted by piteous cries. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Above the crackling of the fire is heard its piteous cries. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
One day a woman called on him and told him a piteous story. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
I felt myself growing pale, and stammered, with a piteous look. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Oh, my dear!" said the husband in a tone of piteous remonstrance. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
At the sound of his piteous cry and of the stroke of the cruel lash, Don. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
There was angelic sweetness in the voice, pleading, reproachful, piteous. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Small wonder that their withers were fearfully wrung, and their wails piteous. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
And then she sobbed violently, and looked into my face with a piteous expression. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Constance, she darted under her mistress's chair, uttering the most piteous howls. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Again the hapless wife begged, with piteous tears, that they would take her husband in. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
She hesitated, and cast a piteous look at Mrs. Gaunt, who sat boiling with indignation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
If He is all Love why need we ask Him with piteous tears to bless our sick and afflicted?. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
Along all the roads for miles streamed a piteous spectacle of old women, children and dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
Nancy spread her hands over her lap and turned her large blue eyes to them with a piteous expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Her piteous appeal that they would leave the room until she clothed herself, was refused with curses. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
But when Martin reached the corner and saw the piteous sight his heart was touched, and he reined in his horse. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
He looked up at Ridgar with a look that cut that good man's heart, so full was it of wild entreaty and piteous grief. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Full of my dead friend, I spoke of him to Lewes and George Eliot, telling them the piteous story of his life and death. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
"The wolf! the wolf! take him away!" cried Sidney, in piteous accents, and then once more fainted with terror and fright. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
Some were calling for water, and praying in piteous tone for mountains of ice, cold bright ice to fall down and bury them. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
A third man's wan face wore a forced smile, which only seemed to light up the piteous, underlying expression of the features. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Instead of leaving, with piteous protestations, I should have stayed near Reine, I should have surrounded her with tenderness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I glanced at old man Nelson, and was startled at the eager, almost piteous look in his eyes, and I wished Campbell would stop. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Then he bade his attendants loose the door with all speed; and when they had loosed it, they beheld within a very piteous sight. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
When Hatty was freed from her tormentors she was in a piteous plight, her neck and arms being spotted over with the painful stings. From Wordnik.com. [Hatty and Marcus or, First Steps in the Better Path] Reference
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