Illustration: "In a pitiablestate of 'nerves' he sat at the extreme end of a bench.
In a pitiable state of "nerves" he sat at the extreme end of a bench, and felt that he was an object of unwholesome interest to his acquaintances.
After the siege, "pitiable it was to see, for the innocent suffered and the guilty escaped.
Let us seek them out and slay them in their houses, those who have flourished at our pitiable expense.
She is in a pitiable condition, unnaturally patient in a sense--for it is patience on the rack.
Pitiable indeed is the politician who makes society his moral barometer.
Hubert’s nose was streaming with blood, and he looked a pitiable object when Jack extricated him from Gaston’s clutches, but that was not directly.
Margery, trying to give the pitiable old lady time to gain the self-control for which she was struggling.
You are not quite right in saying that no one thinks of money in connection with his affections, but it is a pitiable creature that does.
And those two nieces of mine are decidedly pitiable creatures.
To escape, to stanch natural wounds, to redeem society and the private soul, are then mistaken and pitiable ambitions, adding to their vanity a certain touch of impiety.
Nothing is more pitiablethan the attempts people make, who think they have an exquisite sensibility, to live in a house all of one period.
I cried out to let her in, and I breathed again on hearing that Miss Charpillon had just arrived in a sedan-chair in a pitiable condition, and that she had been put to bed.
While I listened to him I reflected that though depraved he might have his good points, and that his weakness might have a pitiable if not a pardonable side.
He was in a pitiable state; all over blood and with three teeth missing.
My poor Spaniard, on the other hand, was in a pitiable case.
Nevertheless, we determined that as her state was a pitiable one, and should be as much alleviated as possible, she should continue to dine with us, but that in the evening she was to go to her governess and sleep with her.
Only tell me that it is not my maid," said Strasoldo, in a pitiable voice.
Gozzi, and so when I went back to him I was in a pitiable state, for I had not only spent money which did not belong to me, but I had spent it for so small a favour as a kiss.
Even then I reproached myself, but a pitiablefeeling of shame would not let me tell the truth; but I hated myself for thus leading astray one whose esteem I desired to gain.
Poor Poinsinet came to see me in a pitiable condition; he had only his shirt and overcoat.
Even at a distance our pitiable condition had been observed.
It was pitiable to hear the cries which rose from the terrorstricken passengers, but as we could as yet give them no comfort, I refrained from going below.
When she arrived the blood had almost ceased to circulate, her hands were numb, and she was indeed in a pitiable condition.
Our readers will not have forgotten poor Shegaugooqua, the poor decrepid bed-ridden creature whom we found in such a pitiable condition in an old wigwam back in the Bush.
Then, with a pitiable cry, he fell senseless to the floor.
He had railed at her, and stormed, had stamped his feet and sworn, and finally, having exhausted his pitiable rage, had left the house with the coarsest insult on his lips.
The latter had indeed been now reduced to such privation as it is pitiable even to look back upon.
With destitution and poverty in their most touching and pitiable shapes, he never had one moment's sympathy, nor did the widow or orphan ever experience a single act of benevolence or mercy at his hands.
I say it is pitiable that people should need to read these things in print.
I protest there are few things more pitiable than the transports of your Cockney critic over Richard Jefferies.
I was in a pitiable plight, warding them off with my stick, and did not escape without bites.
Atkinson, and the company hastened over the hill, at the foot of which a pitiable state of things awaited them.
Smarting and degraded, all their temporary bravado effectually banished, they were indeed pitiable objects, their deplorable state all the harder to bear from its contrast to our recent pleasure when we entertained the visiting crews.
Religion raises men above themselves; irreligion sinks them beneath the brutes: this binds them down to a poor pitiable speck of perishable earth; that opens for them a prospect to the skies.
Religion raises men above themselves, irreligion sinks them beneath the brutes; this binds them down to a poor pitiable speck of perishable earth, that opens for them a prospect in the skies.
I do not envy those who think slavery no verypitiable lot.
A week spent amid uncongenial surroundings and without communication from home, reduced her to a state of pitiable depression.
Mrs. Swinton tottered from the room with arms extended, a pitiable figure; and Dora stood alone, crestfallen, and faced with the inevitable.
Then I must draw your kind attention to my pitiable case by doing a little begging.
You'll reduce him to a pitiable silence if you take away his only asset.
Lacy said to O'Hara: "Go up and pull that pitiable dub off the bed, Roger.
But an event occurred about this period, which, in removing by far the most pitiable cases of suffering, tended to make less grating to my feelings the subsequent conduct of the crew.
Their first horror and consternation at the earlier ravages of this scourge were pitiable in the extreme.
The Duke's men found their master in a pitiable plight.
I now began to see the extent of my folly in leaving home in such a pitiable plight, without money or friends.
I find it stated by a Spanish author, that Barcelona abounds in mendicancy, and I have, as I write, a woodcut before me representing a pitiable crowd of beggars at one of the cathedral doors.
Pitiable indeed would be the condition of the poor folk on The Labrador were it not for Dr.
And the most pitiable part of it was his fear that George and I should notice his weakness and lose courage.
Despite his ownpitiable condition, he was always trying to help us on and give us new courage.
What can be more pitiable than the calamities and reverses sustained by the gods, the Asuras, the Gandharvas, men, the snakes, and the Rakshasas!
There is no more pitiable sight in the world, as I conceive, than that of men destitute of wealth being insulted by others.
