Adjective : piteous cries for help. From Dictionary.com.
She still looked at him with the same piteousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
You came to her when she was weakest, with your piteousness, your helpless need. From Wordnik.com. [The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones] Reference
He realised himself that the piteousness wasn't achieving an over-sympathetic response and reacted with a more businesslike explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
I cannot change, 'and her voice broke into piteousness. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
He was not even moved by the piteousness of her appeal. From Wordnik.com. [Sally Bishop A Romance] Reference
The bluster was gone and there was a piteousness in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel] Reference
The woman roused herself to say with a solemn piteousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
The gentle piteousness of this reply smote the Senora's conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Ramona] Reference
A slumbrous look of perfect peace softened the piteousness of his dying eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference
But it is from those very results that the full piteousness of him glares out. From Wordnik.com. [Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties] Reference
There was a certain piteousness in the action, a consciousness of youth and strain. From Wordnik.com. [Marcella] Reference
Even Conrad Winstanley's hard nature was touched by the piteousness of her look and tone. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference
I might have prated to her of my needs, wrung her heart with the piteousness of my appeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference
A sense of the piteousness, the pitilessness, of it all came overwhelmingly to Mary O'Gara. From Wordnik.com. [Love of Brothers] Reference
Oh! the clinging of the thin hand round her own, the piteousness of suffering -- of failure!. From Wordnik.com. [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I] Reference
The Girl's sure instinct of danger, the piteousness of their case, were making a coward of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl of the Golden West] Reference
There aren't actually words in the English language that can describe that level of piteousness. From Wordnik.com. [Cracked: All Posts] Reference
Although not blaming him unjustly, she failed to realize the spiritual piteousness of his plight. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
She did not even speak, but sat looking at her hands, absorbed in the piteousness of that thought. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
And the voice went clamoring on; the piteousness of it might have stirred the dead things under foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Crown Another Book of Fables] Reference
And she looked up with a wild piteousness in her sweet eyes -- "A man will behave like this to any woman!". From Wordnik.com. [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference
Her blue eyes were shining with unshed tears, her delicate mouth was quivering with the piteousness of her appeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
You have penned me here, you have starved me, stunted me, crushed me -- I sit shivering and staring at my own piteousness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow] Reference
The piteousness of her position softened the doctor's heart still further; he kept hold of her hand and modulated his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Ringfield A Novel] Reference
She relapsed into tears, and Mrs. Payne, quite bowled over by the piteousness of her case, tried to soothe her with caresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Bride] Reference
Her voice was agitated almost to tears, and she had dropped her work and clasped her hands together with a piteousness of appeal. From Wordnik.com. [A Beautiful Alien] Reference
Then my mind and heart were full of bitterness, and yet perhaps the piteousness of my condition had caused her to think kindly of me. From Wordnik.com. [The Birthright] Reference
The corners of her mouth turned down and her under-lip quivered now and then, giving her expression a childlike piteousness of appeal. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
I don't understand! "she cried, with sudden piteousness. From Wordnik.com. [Viviette] Reference
Oh, spare me, spare me! "with a piteousness of terror, was all she could say. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
He could not bear her piteousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
Toward things piteous, full of piteousness. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.] Reference
There was a painful piteousness in her tone. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Audley's Secret] Reference
But Honoria's moment of piteousness was past. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
There was some piteousness in her voice and eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis of Philistia] Reference
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