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  • We had called him Colonel Sans Pitie—Colonel No Mercy—and he certainly worked hard to live up to the name.

    In the Shadow of Freedom Tchicaya Missamou 2010

  • Two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon has died aged 50 following a battle with cancer, the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris confirmed on Tuesday.

    Two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon dead at 50 2010

  • Partly autobiographical are 'Le Roman d'un Enfant' (1890) and 'Le Livre de la Pitie et de la Mort' (1891).

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Pitie it is but evermore wit should be vertuous, vertue gentle, gentrie studious, students gracious.

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

  • Having passed four or five days very agreeably at Bellay, we departed, and continuing our journey without meeting with any accidents, except those I have just spoken of, arrived at Lyons, and were lodged at Notre Dame de Pitie.

    The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

  • A collection of strangely confidential and sentimental reminiscences, called "Le Livre de la Pitie et de la Mort," belongs to

    An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886

  • Partly autobiographical are 'Le Roman d'un Enfant' (1890) and 'Le Livre de la Pitie et de la Mort' (1891).

    Madame Chrysantheme — Complete Pierre Loti 1886

  • The medical school, for instance, is within ten minutes 'walk; the Jardin des Plantes not two hundred steps away; while the Hospital (de la Pitie), where Messieurs Andral and Lisfranc teach, is opposite, and nearer still.

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

  • In the morning I follow the clinical courses at the Pitie ...

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

  • Elizabeth turned from the greetings of sibyls and giants to deliver the enchanted lady from her tyrant, 'Sans Pitie.'

    Post-Prandial Philosophy Grant Allen 1873

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