His eyes kept going pitifully and always to Mrs. Severance and then creeping, away.
We both were silent, two pitifully cold beings, while about us the howling bedlam of pleasure-plotters surged and seethed.
She said nothing, the wound was too deep; only her lips quivered pitifully and the tears ran down upon the pillow.
To deny that he had come to arrest the outlaw was so pitifully futile.
The old Division (or rather the new Division--the infantrymen of the old Division were now pitifully few) worked right hard through the winter.
Some ruins are dead stones, but the broken houses of Flanders are pitifully alive--like the wounded men who lie between the trenches and cannot be saved.
It took so pitifully little to open the gate of heaven to some lives!
Her thin, white hair straggled pitifully about her small, wrinkled face, her eyes looked as if they had been burned almost out by suffering.
Courtland was led to go on talking about the old woman, picturing in a few words the room where she lay, the pitifully few comforts, the inch of candle, the tea without sugar or milk, the butterless toast!
This great work was nothing to them, and they complained pitifully to their mothers.
Her pitifully white face seemed to touch Jason and arouse a spark of manly courage in his bosom.
The horror in her eyes made his heart beat pitifully over her.
We were alone," she said, and again that oddly stricken look made his heart yearn pitifully over her.
Anstice had turned round sharply as she began to speak and his heart yearned over her pitifully as he noted the pallor of her cheeks, the forlorn look in her grey eyes.
The unknown murdered man lay pitifully huddled on the floor, lifeless and dead, a great bullet wound in one temple and another along the side of his neck that must have severed the jugular vein.
Toddles was small, pitifully small for his age; but he wasn't an infant in arms--not for a minute.
He stopped, and looked at her so pitifully that she could scarce keep back her tears.
He turned, pitifully incredulous, wondering that she should seek by deceit to soften the blow; he saw them running down her cheeks, and he believed.
It was Sir Daniel's doing; he hath money to gain upon both sides; and, indeed, I have heard the poor wench bemoaning herself pitifully of the match.
Nay, madam, exceedingly fair," said the distressed knight, pitifully trying to seem easy.
The glasses clinked pitifully against the plates as she handled them; the knives jarred with one another; and I stood by, trembling myself, and endured this strange, this awful penance.
The stranger's eyes dwelt kindly and pitifully on her.
Pitifully did the little ones cheep as the snake swallowed them all, and pitifully cried the mother as she fluttered over her nestlings.
Finding this to be the case, she said very pitifully to her mother, "Mamma, you can't think how it hurts me when I speak!
Monday and Tuesday saw lines of men, women and children in the scantiest of clothing, blue with cold, unwashed and dishevelled, so pitifully destitute a company as one would wish to see.
They simply crowded around the wagons, pitifully begging for bread or anything to eat.
The two men with him were taken and pitifully wounded.
But now that he was so near to meeting her again, though he pined for her, he suddenly and pitifully felt the need for some greater firmness of mind and will.
The wreck of ideal hopes, the defacement of that fair image of itself which every healthy youth bears about with it, could not have been morepitifully expressed.
Lucy of those last words, but the real one, so pitifully evident beneath.
Amber, without speaking, went to his side and touched his shoulder with that pitifully inadequate gesture of sympathy which men so frequently employ.
Listen, dear lad, I am more pitifully at your mercy than I dreamed of.
Never had his past indifference and false pride seemed so despicable and egotistical--his return for the silent confidence reposed in him, so pitifully shameful.
He seemed lost in a gloomy revery and Lynda had time to note, unobserved, the tragic, pain-racked face and the pitifully thin outlines of the figure stretched on the invalid chair and covered by a rug of rare silver fox.
At this point she turned to Truedale and askedpitifully again: "Oh!
The tears were making wet tracks between eyes and pitifully trembling mouth.
But now the riches of that person seemed pitifully trivial.
Pitifully the faithful warrior spake: "Woe is me, most wretched man, that I have lived to see this day.
Supplies dribbled through to them in pitifully small amounts, usually half of the stuff stolen before it reached the front.
Promptly on the minute, according to orders, the nasty, and to the Americans pitifully disagreeable job, was begun.
So he gave it up and "baahed" pitifully while he looked to Caspar for help.
I believed it was right for the first wife to go out of her husband's life if she had spoiled it, and leave him free to woo and win the bride he loved," replied Daisy, pitifully embarrassed.
She was so young and so pitifully lonely, and Rex had drifted out of her life forever, believing her--oh, bitterest of thoughts!
No wonder her heart throbbed pitifully as she stole silently across the wide, shadowy porch, and, quivering from head to foot, touched the bell that echoed with a resounding sound through the long entrance-hall.
Flaxman pitifully weighed against it the fraction of force fretting and surging in the thin elastic frame beside him.
The long silences it enforced were so unlike him, seemed already to withdraw him so pitifully from their yearning grasp!
He would tell her soon--when it was right--she cried pitifully to herself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitifully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
