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"As far as I am concerned you are a pittifull human being and like big o said why dont you hunt with a shovel this season and let us know how it works out."
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"As far as I am concerned you are a pittifull human being and like big o said why dont you hunt with a shovel this season and let us know how it works out."
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As far as I am concerned you are a pittifull human being and like big o said why dont you hunt with a shovel this season and let us know how it works out.
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As far as I am concerned you are a pittifull human being and like big o said why dont you hunt with a shovel this season and let us know how it works out.
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Calandrino being in this pittifull perplexity, stood like one neither alive nor dead, nor daring to use any resistance against her; but fell on his knees before his Wife, holding up his hands for mercy, and entreating her (for charities sake) not to torment him any more: for he had committed no harme at all, and the
The Decameron 2004
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Tree halfe burned, lying flat on her face, naked, scorched and strangely deformed: shee beganne to teare the lockes of her owne hayre, raving and raging in as pittifull manner, as if her Ladie had beene quite dead.
The Decameron 2004
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The servant, who had no great good will to kill her, very easily grew pittifull, tooke off her upper garments, and gave her a poore ragged doublet, a sillie Chapperone, and such small store of money as he had, desiring her to forsake that Country, and so left her to walke on foote out of the valley.
The Decameron 2004
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Or whatsoever else hath provoked him thereto, seeing it is not lawfull for me, to alter or contradict his appointment; I will recount an accident very pittifull, or rather most unfortinate, and well worthy to be graced with bur teares.
The Decameron 2004
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Poore Martellino was in a pittifull case, crying out for mercy, but no man would heare him; for, the more he cryed, the more still they did beat him, as meaning to leave no life in him: which
The Decameron 2004
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Madame Eliza gave you relation: yet (peradventure) it may prove to be no lesse pittifull.
The Decameron 2004
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