On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read. From LearnThat.org. [Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)]
Austen did say the only thing that renders a single women pitiable is poverty, in Emma, I think. From Wordnik.com. [An interview with Helen Fielding by Ashton Applewhite] Reference
She felt his sympathy-filled eyes soaking into her back, labeling her pitiable. From Wordnik.com. [Enchanted Ivy] Reference
She is "pitiable," guilty of "track-covering, the shame that flickers beneath the arrogance.". From Wordnik.com. [Point of View in Fiction] Reference
CM to discuss 'pitiable' life on the border with Centre. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Food inflation rises to 19.05 pc] Reference
I say "pitiable," though I am afraid he never is pitied. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
I was justified, though 'pitiable' is, I think always used of the thing pitied, not the Pitier. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II] Reference
I do not mean to use that word "pitiable" chiefly in the bodily sense, though there's so much of that. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Following the Christ] Reference
AMONGST the celebrated women of the first half of the seventeenth century, many were, says Bussy Rabutin, "pitiable," whilst some were. From Wordnik.com. [Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
'pitiable' people such as the perpetrators of the state demands. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"I don't know what to do, it is a most pitiable story.". From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
He gives a pitiable account of the people living on the. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
A periodic, pitiable undertone throughout the following. From Wordnik.com. [In the Jaws of Kronos, scene 4] Reference
"She is a very weak, pitiable object," she said to herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
As it was, Bulon wandered about for days in a pitiable plight. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
What is more deplorable and pitiable than an old couple childless. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Some of them were pitiable cases of outrage, but we can not report them here. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Do Frey's pitiable misrepresentations really threaten our very social contract?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book Scandals: Can't We All Get a Life?] Reference
If he does not read their written appeal, he sees it in their pitiable condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
A brace and half of trout on this river in the mayfly week is a very pitiable sight. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
We found many little incidents to cheer in all our rounds of pitiable scenes of sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
A man may see his fellow - creature destitute, and may shed tears over his pitiable lot. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Some of them were exceedingly jolly and talkative, notwithstanding their pitiable condition. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
She's created an indelible monster, at once pitiable and scary -- a peroxided, debased Medea. From Wordnik.com. [Con-Artist Classic] Reference
Her love, he thinks, so freely given, so utterly beyond control, is after all a pitiable spectacle. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Service was so weak and exhausted from worry, lack of sleep and nourishment that his condition was pitiable. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
The instant the Apostle heard it, the fashion of his countenance began to change, -- it was pitiable to witness. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
As he gazed at the pitiable sufferers, he said not a word, but his breast heaved with emotion, his frame quivered. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Consider the pitiable situation of these most distressed beings, deprived of their liberty and reduced to slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference
Somehow or other we never get beyond this stage, and as a consequence the yield from our fisheries is simply pitiable. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
After several hours 'detention there, they were brought back to Altheim, where the poor lady arrived a pitiable wreck!. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
There is but one type of man who is more pitiable -- it is he who is recreant to the great cause of freedom for the sake of -- money!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It's pitiable, however, that in the meantime, terrorists can still arm themselves quickly and easily with serious weaponry in this country. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Helmke: A Leaderless ATF Chooses the Wrong Target] Reference
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