A pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulder.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a pitying look.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : to feel pity for astarving child. ,What a pity you could not go!.    From Dictionary.com. 

He doesn't sound self-pitying, which is kind of refreshing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Offside] Reference

Even people for whom smiling was difficult must have smiled at the idea of pitying Katie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Visioning] Reference

He turned, as he spoke, and looked down on her with a kind of pitying wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurice Guest] Reference

The one tender spot left was a kind of pitying affection for her weak old father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

Every so often Maigret had the feeling that she was looking at him with a kind of pitying indulgence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Man on the Bench]

Arachne bestowed the kind of pitying look on Marina that might be given a naughty child who had no notion of what she was saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates Of Sleep]

To light the Fires in pitying Dido's Breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions] Reference

A kind of pitying smile passed over the young man's miserable face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal City] Reference

A look of surprise, followed, however, by a kind of pitying smile, passed over the foreman's face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference

In presence of such madness and such disasters, they treat a Frenchman here with a kind of pitying sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1] Reference

"Spent all his money!" remarked the dog seller with a kind of pitying contempt, and drew off toward the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Twin] Reference

"I fear you have been dreaming, instead of working," she said, looking at him with a kind of pitying admiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference

He felt himself moved by a kind of pitying vanity when he saw what a violent passion for him swayed this woman's breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories] Reference

There has always been a kind of pitying attitude toward us in Hilton since that Sewall affair of Ruth's, for all my efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Wheel A Novel] Reference

Her expression turned pitying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of Friends] Reference

I could not keep my eyes from her sweet, pitying face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

She saw that I was suffering and could not help pitying me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Most rock stars would make these lines boastful or self-pitying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Such Heartless Bastards After All] Reference

His mother's pitying glances as she busied herself with housework.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luther Loves Lucy] Reference

It was a household subsidized to the whims of a self-pitying woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

The new masculinist literature is alternately defensive or pitying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power, Sex And A Big Tv] Reference

He is lazy, careless, thoughtlessly cruel, and completely self-pitying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)] Reference

He saw her painful smile, pitying him as she looked up at him to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Supper] Reference

Therefore are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

"I have none," said Cinq-Mars, pitying the King; and he slowly left the apartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Therefore are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference

In every face she read the same thing, -- a pitying wonder at the folly of her words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

To the world outside, French nationalism can sometimes seem self-pitying and annoying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gallic Pride Is (Surprise!) A Good Thing] Reference

Elisabeth looked at her with a pitying comprehension of the blow she had just dealt her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

The duchess, who was shivering with cold, returned home, greatly pitying the poor monks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

That's too self-pitying - couldn't they have at least compared themselves to the Road Runner?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Generalizations X] Reference

"Oh, my dear" -- Elisabeth shrank away a little, but her eyes were kind and infinitely pitying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

They cheered for their own men, and were alternately scornful and pitying of Dole's sometimes shaky performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Smooth &Amp; Mr. Rough] Reference

Yet catch McCain off guard — or off script — these days, and he can act authentically put-upon and self-pitying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McCain Mutiny] Reference

It's hard to imagine pitying someone who just got a glitzy, lucrative, high-profile job (or any job, for that matter).    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight Madness] Reference

It would be a lesson Michael learned as each person risked a pitying glance at him, the boyfriend of the girl on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girl on the Floor] Reference

As I pull out of the restaurant, I see his face in the rear-view mirror, his pitying, sad-eyed, poor-gringo face, peering after me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard-Times Hollywood] Reference