I clung to the door and looked piteously at her, begging her to take me to America.
It was very hard to have to beat an ignominious retreat, but it was harder still to have to go without being able to attend to one's wounded comrades, who were piteouslycrying aloud for help.
I do recall, however, what an appeal for mercy there went up, how piteously the Transvaal Government was petitioned and supplicated, and finally moved "to forgive and forget.
The right virtuous and noble Earl of Worcester, which late piteously lost his life, whose soul I recommend to your special prayers, also in his time made many other virtuous works which I have heard of.
The following entry was made in the City Register: 'He was piteously slain and murdered to the great heaviness of this city.
Mrs. MacHendrie's face, looking as though scantily molded in tallow as the full glare of the bar-room lights beat upon it, was piteously patient.
And that pie-bald hypocrite would scrunch it with such a piteously ravenous air that the girl quite forgot the basilisk glare and satirical words the landlady directed against her recently-acquired sweet-tooth.
In less than sixty seconds after, he is in their midst, dismounted and down upon his knees, piteously appealing to them to spare his life.
Some are dismounted, on their knees crying "quarter," and piteously appealing for mercy.
As I looked piteously at the small portion which still remained, I saw, in the bottom of the box, a white package, which gave me a new idea.
He struggled blindly as he went, vainly clutching first at an overset chair, then at a leg of the table, and screeching piteously the while to the Queen to save him.
Conceiving himself on the point of death, Darnley wrote piteously to the Queen; but she ignored his letters until she learnt that his condition was improving, when at last (on January 29th) she went to visit him at Glasgow.
The delicate lips were slightly, piteously open, and the whole girlish form in its young beauty appeared, as he watched, to shrink together.
Her face was bathed in tears, but her hand sought his piteously and drew him towards her.
Jacqueline in trouble, gallant and uncomplaining and piteously gay, was a Jacqueline who appealed to every instinct of chivalry in his fine nature.
Again and again her thoughts went over all that had passed between them, trying piteouslyto discover what had happened to put them apart.
So spake the Mallas, and with tearful words excuse themselves to Buddha, even as an only child pleadspiteously before a loving father.
His imploring theatrical appeals to her to come to him are piteously pathetic.
There is no response, and in her frenzy of despair she weeps and beats her head against the door, and piteously pleads for the opportunity of justifying herself.
Corvisat, the Imperial physician, waspiteously asked by the Emperor on his return why he allowed her to die, and the nature of the malady that took her spirit away.
Beside me sat a thin, haggard, sorrowful woman and several half-famished children piteously crying for something to eat.
Take me to him,' she piteously asked, turning to the Swallow.
The poor wretch made answer for himself, crying out piteously and in a choking voice, for a priest to shrive him.
Her voice dropped piteously on the last words; her eyes, craving her lover's pardon, sought his.
I cried piteously in my despair and wonder to see him now so pale and calm; "what shall we do?
In no thing pertaining to the situation did the pathos so piteouslylie as in the fact that Linda was deliberately playing a part--fiercely acting a rôle that would fit itself to that for which the agony of her soul was pleading.
Pete, only half comprehending, was whimpering piteously and clinging to Dwight.
But he won't be with us," said Phronsie slowly, and turning her brown eyes piteously to Polly.
Then briskly and resolutely entering the house, and not finding the countryman there, he spied his wife lying on the ground, piteously weeping and howling.
To have been able to feel this would have been as balm moreover to a piteously wounded self-love, to a smarting and bitter recollection, which would not let her rest.
Her eyes piteouslyfollowed her friend for a little, and then closed.
The day had been so short, so piteously short, and those hours of the evening so endless!
The boy once more regained his own appearance, and called piteously for his mother.
When Elsa heard him, she quickly looked up, and begged piteously that he take her away from that dangerous spot!
So he piteously begged and besought the man-at-arms to take off his chains and let him go only so far as the courtyard.
He was still conscious, and always asking piteously for Emelye.
And with these words all the ladies wept more piteously than ever, and prayed Theseus to have compassion on their great sorrow.
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