At length I managed to tear myself away, leaving her to find consolation from Him who dries all tears with His infinite pity and compassion, and gives even to weak women and little children a strength that many an erring man envies.
She felt pity and loathing, and looked across the room at Richard, meaning to tell him by a smile that she would help him to be kind to Roger.
But all the same, it was a pity that the old people had interfered.
And through the sallow mist of her unavailing and repugnant pity there flashed suddenly the lightning of certainty that some day the thing would happen.
It's a pity Mr. Yaverland cannot see you now," said the old man, half from honest jocosity and half from an itch to bring the creature back to this interesting suffering of hers.
And a pity for me too, since I have had to obey her ever since in everything, though I wanted neither the white shoes nor the Communion.
But it is certainly a pity that the person who had the bad taste to stab poor Lord Fotheringay did not postpone his crime for at least one day.
It would be something of a pity if she did not know it.
Now by our holy Lady of Kazan, When I have finished pitying myself, I'll pity her.
The castaway of Tabor Island, to the great pity of the engineer and the great astonishment of Neb, was then brought from the cabin which he occupied in the fore part of the Bonadventure; when once on land he manifested a wish to run away.
A sort of irresistible pity led him towards the unfortunate man, and he touched his arm lightly.
His feeling toward Georgie was changed not a jot by his humanpity for Georgie's human pain and injury.
Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's thepity of it!
For an instant he was on the point of breaking down, but he commanded himself, bravely dismissing the self-pity roused by her compassion.
And first pity of her hard fate prompted him to ask the cause of her doom: but Fate had decreed the maiden's deliverance, and presently Love stole upon him, and he resolved to save her.
Solon in the Charon pursues his victory so far as to make us pity instead of scorning Croesus.
But it is such a pity that you don't leave these rocks and crags, and live in a town; you will lose all your beauty in this desert.
Between three and four thousand it was that I paid in to the Treasury in ready money for him; he had been fined that amount and imprisoned in default, and I took pity on him.
You needn't waste any pityon HIM, old chap; he escaped from Dartmoor yesterday afternoon.
But I simply don't pretend to have felt any personal pity for a man whom I had never seen; that kind of pity's usually cant; and besides, all mine was needed for myself.
It would be a pity to have to shoot a freak like Saltash; wouldn't it?
God knows it is ten thousand times a pity that you should be!
It is a pity as concerns the man, we had not one in our stables who knew more about horses!
And all that should awaken pity for the world in our intercourse with it.
We should remember that the world is a poor jaded world, and calls forpity rather than for wrath: its men have no resting-place either for the body or the soul; it has no antidote for its misery, no remedy for its disease.
BurnsÂ’ touching pathos, his humor, his love and pity for man and beast, penetrated his own humorous and nature-loving soul.
What a pity France and Sweden had not had Military Chiefs of your way of thinking!
It is a pitythat he is also to all intents and purposes mad.
The girl's coldness stung him, but her unquestionable beauty and strength of character had not been without their effect, and the man winced as he remembered that she had no pity for anything false or mean.
His pity for her, and his eager championship, overwhelmed the spirit of compassion for the foolish wretched husband.
It's a pitythey are not enlisted and drilled to express themselves.
Women with brains, moreover, are all heartless: they have no pity for distress, no horror of catastrophes, no joy in the happiness of the deserving.
Emma dropped a heavy sigh in pity of her, remotely in compassion for Redworth, the loving and unbeloved.
I have borne many changes with equanimity, I pretend to a certain degree of philosophy, but this mania for cutting up the land does really cause me to pity those who are to follow us.
Perhaps Miss Hastings thought the same medicine might do her good; perhaps she meant the complaint as a hint to Mr. Brail, the mate, to have pity upon her.
It is a pity our professional men do not travel more, especially clergymen, who, though generally learned men, are not deep in the knowledge of their own species.
What a pity that sailors, and seafaring people at large, can seldom or never give vent to their indignation without at the same time attacking the parentage of the object of their resentment.
You visit palaces and prisons, hospitals and courts; you pity kings and convicts, and your sympathy goes out to all the suffering and insane, the oppressed and enslaved, and even to the infamous.
The brief pity which the beauty of their victims had inspired would fade away as they remembered their dreaded vocation, and the pleasurable excitement they had anticipated from their sufferings.
Altogether there were few to pity two young and beautiful girls who were going forth to die a cruel death, so fiercely ran the passions and superstitions of the peasantry of the age.
He was looking up into those eyes, reading all their message of pity and tenderness, till in his own there dawned something less than despair.
But torn as she was with the desire to be beside the man she loved, her womanly pity forbade her to forsake the obviously dying wretch who lay panting out his life before her.
Surely it was but a note of pity for an innocent man whom jealous hatred or some passion she could not divine was condemning to death?
Innocence indeed seemed written on every lineament of the faces turned towards their enemies, and men and women pressed forward with exclamations in which pity mingled with admiration and indignation against the sentence about to be executed.
It would be a pity if such a beautiful vessel sank altogether.
For better unto me is Thine abundant pity for the attainment of Thy pardon, than the righteousness which I believe myself to have for defence against my conscience, which lieth wait against me.
Oh wonderful condescension of Thy pity surrounding us, that Thou, O Lord God, Creator and Quickener of all spirits, deignest to come unto a soul so poor and weak, and to appease its hunger with Thy whole Deity and Humanity.
It is a pity he writes books; but he is highly respected, is he not, Denise?
Though she was dead in her grave I had no pityfor her, and her daughter, also, thought of her with bitterness.
But if you cannot forgive me, I entreat you to pity me.
I thought it a pity that my lady should be disappointed.
Yet," with a look both sly and vacant, "it would be a pity to waste them.
I had no feeling of pity for him, and I was neither startled nor deeply moved.
I pity and forgive you, Christian," replied the Advocate in a very gentle voice.
He was a man who had no pity for the weak, and no forgiveness for the erring.
I pity you, but cannot help you further than by the action I intend to take of preventing the occurrence of a deeper shame and a deeper disgrace falling upon me.
But it is indifferent to me upon whom he has set his affections--with all my heart I pity the unfortunate creature he loves.
