They are a pitiful lot, with earache, toothache, and all the minor complaints which I myself find so trying, and they lie about on straw till they are able to go back to the trenches again.
The pitifulwomen in the shelters were saying, "We are safe because we are old and ugly; all the young ones went to the harems.
To have dress and hair and expression a frowsy and pitiful copy of the latest Fifth Avenue ridiculousness, to flirt with shop-boys as feeble-minded and brainless as themselves, and to marry as quickly as possible, are the aims of all.
In this way the prisoner preserved his mind from utter decay, and was almost happy--nay, was really happy when his arduous labor would result in the discovery of all three of the objects of his pitiful quest.
In the presence of so intense a depth of black despair, Mine trembled--the kindly bonze was awed; for sure there is no sight so pitiful in nature as the whirl and flood of human anguish whose torrent we may not stem.
All over Japan, those who loved their country heard with groans of the annihilation of the loyalists, and the pitiful condition of the Emperors.
After a while he became pitiful of his fellow-travellers.
A pitiful hunted look came into the steady grey eyes.
He sat on a beam lying at the ship end of the pool and stared moodily at the pitiful make-believe.
Once more he became the pitiful victim of a great city, crawling back to the home shelter on a wintry night.
It was pitiful to see the patience with which she bore her suffering.
Mrs Macalister smiled a pitiful travesty of a smile in acknowledgment, and her friends pressed her hand, mercifully refraining from speech.
The pitiful trembling began again, whereupon George Elgood's hand held out a glass of water, and Margot took it from him to lift it to the quivering lips.
It's pitifulto see a lad like that mooning away his time, when he ought to be busy at football or cricket, or playing tricks on his betters.
Little wonder our poor beasts uttered that pitiful scream against pain, which is the horse's one protest of suffering.
It was pitiful to see her so, and it softened him.
She looked at the fragments of the broken glass, and then at me, in a half wondering, half regretful, half inquiring way that was pitifulto see.
Instead of a beautiful town there remains a heap of cinders, with here and there a wrecked façade of pitifulgrace or broken dignity to tell where stood the proudest buildings.
Our way led through a pitiful country of crippled trees to a curious round hill.
It is rather pitiful that, waking or sleeping, our senses should let us be so cruelly fooled.
After all, we are pitiful creatures, and, under the thin veneer, like enough to the beasts.
The world was all wrong, justice was wrong and suffering was wrong and mankind wrong, all was wrong and inexplicable and pitiful too.
It was pitiful to see; like a hen trying to escape across the barnyard, and flapping its wings to help.
Just for one moment a wave of fury came over me; I had only to put out my arms and I could lift her out of the carriage altogether, this child, this pitiful hen!
It is pitiful to see such a dead place, trying to pretend it is alive.
You should falter, should cling to your pitiful breath; Cower down into beasts, when you might have stood men, And prefer the slave's life of prostration to death.
One of the mostpitiful examples of this failure to connect is that of the childless woman and the friendless, uncared-for child.
It lies in the pitiful assumption that she can achieve her end by imitation, that she can be the thing she envies if she look like that thing.
And in the moment that its victim recovers a staggering strength, it is upon him again, sweeping aside in one crashing moment the pitiful defenses of philosophy and faith which the soul has constructed to save itself from shipwreck.
The helpless shrunken figure presented a pitiful contrast to that of the man who knelt beside it.
And Kenwick hastened to cover the pitiful little secret which he had laid bare.
The practically unanimous condemnation which Clive's countrymen then and since have passed upon his action with regard to the Red Treaty is the best answer to all such pitiful prevarications.
He loved him with all his heart, though he had known him such a short time, and though the man had a face both pitiful and sharply set at variance with the best of things.
Is there anything more pitiful than such a stifled life with its crushed hopes?
Line: 4 The pitiful truth could hardly be better put.
In captured letters and memoranda we find cries for rescue, pitiful in their despair.
One man, who was shaking with an ague when I met him this morning, had a pitifultragedy happen to him.
Not much is left of Wytschaete Wood, once 800 yards square, now a pitiful wreckage of broken stumps and tattered tree-trunks.
The enemy had outposts in these marshes at Vine Cottage--a sweet, pitifulname for such a place--and Vanity Farm.
The black bonnets of old women who once lived in those houses lie about the rubbish-heaps, and by some strange, pitiful freak are almost the only signs left of the inhabitants who lived here before the Germans wrecked their houses.
Then our Army moved through rivers of mud, and all our splendid horses were pitiful to see.
But it was in the cellars that the pitiful drama had been--in those cellars down which I peered wondering whether any poor bodies lay there still.
This dog's fidelity to the paralysed boy, who was deaf and dumb and gassed, seems to men who have seen many sights of war and this agony in Armentieres the most pitiful thing they know.
