A few days later the weather was fine enough to allow fishermen to put to sea, and on rounding a rugged point on the coast some of them heard the piteous howling of a dog.
The stillness of the night was made a horror by the piteous moans that floated over the level sea, and excited the sympathy of the men who were compelled to inflict the suffering in order to preserve their own safety.
He would speak of death coming to take him from his wife and little girl in the most piteous way, and then I had to say to him, 'Do not be so irreverent to your Creator.
And he clung with an almost piteous reiteration to the accuracy of his recollections as a vindication of the alertness of his powers.
There was no anger in her voice, only a wondering melancholy, a kind of piteous despair that she was living in so graceless a world.
But still the bowed figure in its piteous black sobbed and did not reply anything except, “Oh, I am so unhappy!
Her weeping eyes, her tear-clouded face, her piteous gesture, moved the man not one whit.
Her little face, seen now in repose, unlit by the light that glowed in her eyes when she looked at him, was piteous with fatigue.
But when he turned and looked over his shoulder she remembered his tyranny, and hardened her piteous gaze into a stare of loathing.
As these thoughts crossed his mind, Henry approached them, his kind face furrowed and drawn with pain in a manner piteous to behold.
I am grateful to you, sir," he said to Percivale, with a piteous humility.
If she would only confess the truth--whatever it was they could pardon it, had been their piteous cry.
Not so the poor old father; he believed the story of his child's shame, and it was piteous to hear him lamenting over her, as she lay like one dead before him, wishing she might never more open her eyes.
Then the other one said, with piteous tear, "What!
But, at the first movement, Lyddy uttered a piteous cry, clung to him wildly, and suffered herself to be dragged over, and half lie sobbing hysterically on the carpet.
Dinah uttered a piteous moan, and turned her agonised face to Clive, who stood there with jaw dropped and the paper trembling in his hand.
No," she said, giving him a piteous look, and then turning slowly to face Clive.
She uttered a low, piteous wail, and the struggle within her was intense.
The girl gave him a piteous look, and tried to catch his hand, but he avoided her touch, and laughed sneeringly.
One low, piteous sigh, and Dinah would have fallen to the floor had not the Doctor caught her in his arms, for she fainted dead away.
His utter helplessness, his stunned amaze that the wife he so sorely needed could have gone away and left him to bear the vicissitudes of life without her, were as piteous to his daughter as the wailing grief of a child.
He was barred at the "copy shop," and was living on money borrowed from Scott in a piteous appeal full of lies.
Elsewhere there are a hundred and twenty indigent families who have no fire to warm themselves during winter, no clothes to cover themselves, and who are often wanting bread; they are in a wretched and piteous state of poverty.
So piteous case left his stout heart at end Without one taint of fear or sordid care: Whereof great praise throughout the world he bare— If aught of credence we to tales may lend Of this prow knight.
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.
Blackie still clung fast to the gun, casting a piteous look at the good-natured countenances of the seamen, imploring them to help him, which it was evident they would be very ready to do.
Approaching his slave, he ordered him to get into the boat; the latter only replied by piteous shrieks and cries, clinging as tightly as before to the gun with arms and legs, while he seized the tackle in his jaws.
Down ran the wine into the road, Most piteousto be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke As they had basted been.
That stern yet piteous look, those solemn tones, Wound worse than torture.
The summer and autumn had been so wet, That in winter the corn was growing yet: 'Twas a piteous sight to see all around The grain lie rotting on the ground.
To his only child He turned him, but her piteous moaning mild Pierced him afresh,--and now she knew him not.
The piteous appeal was wasted on a king who was already entertaining Anne Boleyn with royal state in his own palace; the trial proceeded, and on the twenty-third of July the court assembled to pronounce sentence.
But while Felton's name was echoing through the kingdom, our new Brutus was at this moment exhibiting a piteous spectacle of remorse; so different often is the real person himself from the ideal personage of the public.
It was pitch dark, and piteous screams came up from the surrounding waters.
An old man riding behind us on an ass with empty panniers, seeing fortunes being scattered about the road with such reckless and unbounded profusion, came up alongside, and entered into a piteous detail of his poverty.
Two or three times I ran right over the fawn, which bleated in the most piteous manner, but always escaped the death-blow from the grey's hoofs.
And he recalled the timid, piteous expression with which Anna had said to him at parting: "Anyway, you will see him.
It waspiteous to behold the struggles of those unhappy people as they contended who first should have their necessities relieved.
The humane heart of Isabella melted at the sight of the piteous cavalcade.
The morning sun rose upon a piteous scene before the walls of Baza.
They were assembled in the city and marshalled forth in piteous procession.
When the contest was over the streets presented a piteous spectacle, so many of their inhabitants had died in the defence of their thresholds or been slaughtered without resistance.
My fellow cloak presser told a piteous story of his wife and four children on the other side, who had been almost heart-broken because he had been here two years and been kept by "hard luck" from sending for them.
I was there in three days, and truly the dear, beautiful, merry girl I had parted with only a year before was a sad piteous sight.
It was a piteous sight to see a woman so depending upon such things as a complexion, and whiffs of scandal, and servants' gossip.
He looked a very piteous object, very much fallen from that fine figure that he had presented when I had first set eyes on him; but he strove to compensate by emphasis what he lacked in dignity.
When I rode into the court, five minutes before noon, a very piteous little group awaited me by the inner gate.
It was piteous to see how he sought to be very exact in his memories, and not go by a hair's breadth beyond the truth.
With a tenderness which his family had never observed in him since that piteous day in his fifth year when he tried to mend his broken doll, William laid the geranium blossoms in the cardboard box among the botanical and other relics.
