How To Use Piteous In A Sentence
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Isidore recalled the piteous words uttered by Marguerite as she dropped the letter, and the truth flashed across his mind at once.
The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France
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Herr Schaal's voice was piteous; he was pleading.
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They did his bidding and he alighted with his company of handmaids and Mamelukes; and, seeing all the folk of the city in straits and desolation and sore distress, said to the Princess, ‘O love of my heart and coolth of mine eyes, look in what a piteous plight is my sire!’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Grin stood at the top of the stairway and let out a piteous yowl.
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He was crying into his lovely black feathers a piteous sound that tore at Star's heart.
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And he hath indignation thereof, and putteth away the wedge despiteously and right fiercely, and then the wedge falleth and smiteth him harder than it did before, and he striveth so long with the wedge, until his feeble head doth fail by oft smiting of the wedge, and then he falleth down upon the pricks and stakes, and slayeth himself in that wise.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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Without warning, the machine bleats: ‘It's not my fault ’in a piteous voice.
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The kitten gave a piteous cry.
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He fell, calling in piteous tones to a padre who was in the coach, entreating him to stop and confess him, and groaning out a farewell to his friend the driver.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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My heart goes out to Miss F - sorry for your piteous plight which I induced.
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Agnes is said of agna a lamb, for she was humble and debonair as a lamb, or of agnos in Greek, which is to say debonair and piteous, for she was debonair and merciful.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2
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And yet from the beginning of our existence down to a time within the memory of babes England has distressed herself piteously over the ungentleness of our Connecticut Blue Laws.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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There was the _ping, ping, ping_, of the mosquitoes, and the piteous wailing shriek of the jackals as they hunted in a pack, and there, too, was the monotonous tramp of the sentry, hour after hour.
Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
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There isn't a hint of jousting, sacred quests or piteous damsels.
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Finding herself separated from her companions, she wanted to rejoin them, and the more Gudbrand tugged at her tether, the more piteously she baaed.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
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Like a true piteous creature, she slobbered all over.
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Sunddenly the wolf trembled. Its teeth clacked, and a piteous whine rose from its throat.
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Pallas [39] and of the Titans, but imbruing altars with the shed blood of strangers, a pest unsuited to the harp, [of strangers] sighing forth [40] a piteous cry, and shedding a piteous tear.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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I could hear the women weeping, one of them making a piteous mewing sound.
Fire The Sky
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piteous appeals for help
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Freddie, who, shaken up in his small cage for three days in an ekka, seemed in piteous plight, feathers (what there were of them) ruffled and unkempt, and eyes dim and half closed.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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We felt piteous for him because no one could accompany or play with him.
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She lifted her belled wrists, her small hands, supplicatingly, piteously extended. to me.
Guardsman Of Gor
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This same mother will also tell you not to cut the tree, for it will bleed real blood during the night and cry out with a piteous wail.
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Sometimes the recitation is a piteous description of the agony of the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
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There in the gate the children gather, hanging round their mothers 'necks, and weep their piteous lamentation, "O mother, woe is me! torn from thy sight Achaeans bear me away from thee to their dark ship to row me o'er the deep to sacred Salamis or to the hill' on the Isthmus, that o'erlooks two seas, the key to the gates of Pelops.
The Trojan Women
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Saying so, he wepte and syghed so piteously as a litle chylde threated by his mother the nourice.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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How piteous is the case of mankind, which thus seems to be in a combination against itself, and its own rights and liberties, which could not be ruined but by its own strength!
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Such it appears, at least, from the Place Saint André des Arts. Symbolically it might be called a piteous appeal, always rejected by souls hardened and hammered by vice, of that anvil which was only an optical illusion, and that very real bell.
En Route
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2 Spurring so hot with rage dispiteous, dispiteous > pitiless
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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The mother made me literally force-feed him, shoving puréed food into his mouth as he cried piteously in feeble protest.
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During her early timekeeper at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellowship laboratory artistes and captured the attestation of Akon, who recognized her vocalist abilities, and got her signed to his own laboratory, Kon Live Distributor. dispiteous wheat and fuck with it chaff What is your wrecker vanity Kog?
Kog Zadare, only living person...
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The goat bleats piteously - it knows this is not a good day.
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The cat was mewling piteously the other day and I said ‘she sounds like a siren.’
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Their silent, concentrated eagerness is a piteous sight, as the cover is slowly lifted from the heavy brass box in which the dice are kept, on the cast of which many of them have staked all they possess.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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There, in a laund or glade in the midmost part of the forest, he found an old and white dame, kneeling before a green cross beside the path, weeping piteously as she prayed and beat her breast.
King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
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I groan piteously, my stomach growling, echoing in the silence like a gunshot.
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As the end neared, she lapsed into a semi-consciousness of raving and then piteous wailing.
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Your efforts never fail to leave me laughing at your piteous attempts.
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And it have come over me, Mr. Danvers, as she knows Susie, for, though she is the werry closest little thing I ever come across, her face went quite white when I telled her about my poor lost girl, and she axed me quite piteous and eager if her name wor Lovedy Joy.
The Children's Pilgrimage
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The mother made me literally force-feed him, shoving puréed food into his mouth as he cried piteously in feeble protest.
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Fernand smiled piteously. " A lover is never terrible, " he said.
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She gave a long piteous cry.
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The girl uttered a cry, long, tremulous, heart-rending, piteous.
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Aeneas was our king, foremost of men in righteousness, incomparable in goodness as in warlike arms; whom if fate still preserves, if he draws the breath of heaven and lies not yet low in dispiteous gloom, fear we have none; nor mayest thou repent of challenging the contest of service.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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I know that you are playing with me just as a cat plays with a mouse; yet even the most piteous mousekin sometimes causes his tormentor surprise or disappointment by getting under a bureau or behind the stove, where, for the moment, she cannot paw him.
Mince Pie
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She had a hundred years experience when you were still a piteous little child!
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Breakfast, a leisurely weighing and measuring of the climatic, picturesque and health-mending conditions, and the writing of a letter or two helped him wear out the forenoon; but after luncheon the time dragged dispiteously, and he was glad enough when the auto-car came to take him to the station for the evening train.
The Grafters
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If they could treat thee thus despiteously, he would surely not have made thee a good husband," reasoned the sister.
Grisly Grisell
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Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared With piteous recognition in fixed eyes, Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless.
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And then the bear cometh and is an - hungered, and the log that hangeth there on high letteth him: and he putteth away the wedge despiteously, but after the removing the wedge falleth again and hitteth him on the ear.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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A piteous yelp from the lower regions at last announced that the thief was captured, and Tom appeared bearing Snip by the nape of the neck in one hand and Polly's cherished bonnet in the other.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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Like a true piteous creature, she slobbered all over.
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Morgan shuffled along, as if a cripple, his feet dragging piteously on the floor.
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The songbirds had returned, but their calls sounded ever so plaintive and piteous.
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He'd long forgotten most of the words of this piteous lament, but that was no obstacle.
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The songbirds had returned, but their calls sounded ever so plaintive and piteous.
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Eight of the Germans, piteously bleating "Kamerad" stood against the wall near the door, their hands stretched high above their heads.
The Apartment Next Door
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The robot scampers around a bit, but when the physicist raises the hammer, the machine turns over on its back, emits a few piteous squeals, and looks up at its persecutor with enormous, terror-stricken eyes.
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It does not become the young man of the period to imitate too closely his ancestral Father Adam, and cry out in piteous tones: --
A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
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Boromir's attempted martyrdom was a bit self piteous to be sympathetic.
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The cat meowed piteously and followed her throughout the room.
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Ever before the celebration of his mass, ere he revested him, he kneeled down before the altar, and devoutly made his prayer, weeping and piteously sighing, and oft-times as he celebrated his mass plenty of tears fell from his eyes along his face.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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Thus, the best form of tragedy is one that represents ‘terrible and piteous events’ that befall good and undeserving people.
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She frowns softly, more of a piteous look than a displeased one.
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Nor did he have to present himself as piteous in order to feed his everlasting hunger for sympathy.
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I think there is a better word than 'piteous' -- yes, Clement had just told it me.
Peterkin
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Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet.
Across China on Foot
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Never in my life had I ever heard such a piteous sound.
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Residents -- whether for the purposes unblushingly avowed by that sometime favourite of the stage, Mr. Eccles, or for the reasons less horrifying to the United Kingdom Alliance -- found themselves more at home in "Caesarea" than in "Sarnia," and the "five-pounder," as the summer tripper was despiteously called by natives, liked to go as far as he could for his money, and found St. Helier's "livelier" than
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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To this day I recall the piteous expressions of two or three of these wounded horses, as they raised their heads in their suffering and looked at us as we passed between them.
Arthur Peronneau Ford. "Life in the Confederate Army; Being Personal Experiences ..."
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Then she lifted her body, piteously, the sweet, rounded centralities of her, to me.
Guardsman Of Gor
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“O my lady, I am a banisht wight and with passion for a beloved one in piteous plight, nor with other will I consent to love-delight.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Making no further reference to the child, he sat listening by turns to a prolonged exposition of his sister's views on the management of children, and to the continued wailings which floated down from the room above, until, at length, as a more piteous cry than all frantically voiced his own name, "faver," his self-restraint gave way, and he rose hastily and went upstairs.
The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
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Rome which is called the market of Trajan, and then he remembered of the justice and other good deeds of Trajan, and how he had been piteous and debonair, and was much sorrowful that he had been a paynim, and he turned to the church of S. Peter wailing for the horror of the miscreance of Trajan.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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The Government of the day said ‘Let us succour these people, for their condition is piteous, and besides they are almost as good as us’.
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That which makes his case the more piteous is that he is not himself aware of his misery and danger; he goes blindfold, nay, he goes laughing to his ruin.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Wedlock is the incredible story of her transformation from one of eighteenth-century England's richest, most free-wheeling heiresses into a piteous victim of a cruel, manipulative abuser into an improbable poster-child for modern women's rights.
Wedlock: Summary and book reviews of Wedlock by Wendy Moore.
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_Shame_ -- to confess his folly; and yet a sullen desire, to be reconciled and better advised for the future! what tragedy ever showed us such a tumult of passions rising at once in one bosom! or what buskined hero standing under the load of them, could have more effectually moved his spectators, by the most pathetic speech, than poor miserable Nokes did, by this silent eloquence, and piteous plight of his features?
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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“We can wait no longer,” said the guard, and again drew Paulo away, who looking piteously after Vivaldi, alternately repeated, Farewel, dear maestro! farewel dear, dear maestro!” and “What did I demand to be brought here for?
The Italian
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Multitudes perish by famine, a very sore judgment, and piteous is the case of those that fall under it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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His voice broke piteously, but Bahzell only gazed down with flinty eyes, and something inside the landlord shriveled under their dreadful promise.
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So I'm bent by such grievous tortures, painful to suffer, piteous to behold.
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The cat meowed piteously and followed her throughout the room.
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The court proved immune to these piteous cries and upheld the sentence, anyway.
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The girl uttered a cry, long, tremulous, heart-rending, piteous.
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The Government of the day said ‘Let us succour these people, for their condition is piteous, and besides they are almost as good as us’.
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Lightly the son forgat his parents 'piteous ashes.
Poems and Fragments
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Alwyn," exclaimed Mr. Gaythorne, piteously, "I was too hard, I will confess that.
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
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Curiatij that were slaine, who meeting her brother in the triumphe, at one of the gates called Capena, and knowing the coate armure of her paramour, borne vpon her brothers shoulders, which she had wrought and made with her owne handes: She tore and rent the heare of her heade, and most piteouslye bewayled the death of her beloued.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Desire or other piteous ends; for, in verity, these to have no more dealings with the thing that I do tell upon, than hath the merchanting of goods, or the need of a glutton.
The Night Land
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Your piteous tribe has committed more to the eternal life and bliss after death then your life here and now.
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She twisted her hands miserably, with a piteous expression on her face.
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The piteous 11 per cent conviction rate has to be explained somehow.
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I wouldn't have won; the egg below us broke and a moist dragon head appeared, crooning piteously as the dragonet shook itself free of the shell.
Artichoke
