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  • Piteously both man and beast have been accommodated.

    The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

  • Piteously, and more piteously, she danced her beauty before me.

    Fighting Slave Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

  • Piteously Ann reflected that could Virginia have known how matters stood she would never have exacted the fulfilment of any promise at such a fearful price.

    The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler

  • Piteously wandering day after day o'er the face of the earth, -- and now imprisoned!

    The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

  • Piteously lamenting, O Suta, I spoke these and many such words unto my son.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Piteously he tried to persuade us that it was a matter of professional advancement to him to have this book; moreover, he said, he had just won five dollars at faro (or some such hazard) so that he was not really spending money at all; but we countered all his sophisms with slogging rhetoric.

    Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

  • Piteously he fixed his eyes on her window; it was open, but the curtains tight drawn; no stir, no sound.

    Ramona 1921

  • Piteously it conjured me not to take it back into this cruel hum-drum.

    Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

  • Piteously he turned to the doctor, after one look at June's flushed face.

    The Fighting Edge William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • Piteously, like a lost child, she searched every face within her scope of vision; but she searched in vain for the face of a friend.

    Rosa Mundi and Other Stories 1910

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