A long silence followed; over their heads stared the fixed stony face of Duty--that pitiless divinity--suppressing every outward expression of the sorrow that filled their shrinking hearts.
Gems and red gold won from Earth's richest treasury Straw the dark floor of the pitiless sea, Buried for aye--and my wealth-freighted argosy Fades like the mist from the ocean and me!
I am sure I shall never remember The pelting and pitiless rain Of that desolate day in November, Without a dull heart-throb of pain.
Our Mercy hath departed from His Ark, Our Glory hath departed from His rest, Our Shield hath left us naked as a mark Unto all pitiless eyes made manifest.
They are men; that is to say, feeble and corruptible, gentle to the strong and pitiless to the weak.
The ties of society are based upon reciprocal services; but, if this society is composed of pitiless souls, all engagements are broken.
The jeers and the mockery of a pitiless multitude seemed too awful, no matter what the man's crime had been.
We were now in summer heat, and this military quintet made a peculiar sight in dusty trousers, peak caps and straw sandals, with the perspiration streaming freely down their naked backs as they plodded upwards under a pitiless sun.
Thereupon ensued an ominous pause, broken only by the servants as they grouped themselves at a respectful distance, and by the pitiless patter of the rain upon the glazed roof overhead.
The sun glared down upon the city with pitiless ferocity.
And then he said to himself that this fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul; that its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs, and that he was alone in a great wilderness.
There is something so hateful in the calculated pitiless method that one feels it a duty to kill the cruel brutes whenever a chance occurs.
She had been disconsolate since the loss of her own baby, stolen from her lap by a pitiless eagle and borne away in the sharp talons as the marauder skimmed the level expanse of treetops to its nest on the bleak mountainside.
And he was right, for the first time in his life he had come upon the trail of man, and upon man's handiwork in all its most pitiless destructiveness.
At noon we reached the dry bed of a river and crossed it several times, but could find no water to quench our thirst, whilst the sun shone down on us with pitiless heat.
About noon the wind failed us again, and the sun right overhead, in a clearpitiless sky, scorched us with its rays, while our boat lay like a log upon the water, the pitch melting in the seams with the heat.
The poor Indians were ground down to the dust by the Spaniards with pitiless barbarities.
She was once more a mournful little waif among the pitiless crowds.
He hated him cordially and persecuted him cruelly, behaving with a pitiless severity, and exhibiting such a contemptible spirit of revenge that he has been hopelessly disgraced by the enlightened verdict of history.
You are feeling the cold, I am afraid,” said the pitiless brigand.
Would one exception have marred too much the pitiless perfection of the divine, eternal plan?
His face was flushed, the gray eyes had lost the cold, pitiless look which they had shown when Brune had seen them over the pistol barrel; they had softened wonderfully.
In the mean time the snake's eyes burned with a more pitiless malevolence than before.
Although pitiless to his competitors he had the gift of drawing to him men of high ability; he was a wonderful judge of men, and to his intimates he was generous and open.
But on a sudden thrills from the people still and pale, Chorussing his unheard despair, a desperate wail Caught on a lurking point of rock it sways and swings, Sport of the pitiless waters, the raft to which he clings.
When nature, for eighty years, has spared one from peril of sickness, shock of accident, and the din of battles, man cannot show himself more pitiless than nature.
Guy smiled a fearful smile, without, however, altering his stern and pitiless expression.
Be careful of Flora Billingsgate," he said to me, in low stern tones, while his pitiless eye shot a baleful fire.
The old pitiless fire shone in his eyes; the old stern look settled around his mouth.
The Governor saw his advantage, but little did he guess the pitiless power of it.
She was struggling with a pitiless hope that perhaps she might regain him after all.
