How To Use Piteously In A Sentence
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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She lifted her belled wrists, her small hands, supplicatingly, piteously extended. to me.
Guardsman Of Gor
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I groan piteously, my stomach growling, echoing in the silence like a gunshot.
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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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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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The cat meowed piteously and followed her throughout the room.
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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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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
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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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Morgan shuffled along, as if a cripple, his feet dragging piteously on the floor.
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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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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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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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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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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
