The pitying God, amid the rapturous hallelujahs of the heavenly hosts, bent to listen to the music of these broken harps.
O Son of God, take us to thy pitying arms, and lift us up into the light that never, never grows dim--into the love that fills heaven and eternity!
Each case has its own peculiar features, and must be left to the all-seeing and all-pitying Father.
A fresh tide of pity rose in his heart, that he felt came from the heart of the all-pitying One.
A traveler dying of thirst in the desert could not clutch a cup of cold water more eagerly than he grasped these tender words of the pitying Father in heaven.
And yet the scholars, pitying him, entreated the King of France that the Provost and his accomplices after being flogged after the manner of scholars at school, should be let alone and be restored to their occupations.
And they tell me your son is dead yonder," I said, pityingthe old man who had now no wife nor child.
Jove greets thee, who, in care, as much as he is distant, deigns Eye to thy sorrows, pitying thee.
All joined in family prayer; and I went to bed pitying the miserable condition of those who live a life of luxury and self-indulgence.
Oh," said Mr. North, eyeing him with a curious air of expectation that had something pitying in it.
In all the cruelty of it," he cried, "there seems to have been one human pitying soul.
Her pitying girlish face and the liquid darkness of her uplifted eyes always came back to him clearly when he called them up in thought.
He smiled in pitying derision as he remembered his recklessness.
Swift as light came the thought that her brother and his wife had suspected her secret and had been talking about her, perhaps pitying her.
The stories of the pitying intervention of the Virgin to save the sinner from the wages of his sin, and frustrate the devil, are among the fragrant flowers of the mediaeval spirit.
Pitying me, He turned His serene countenance to me a second time, saying: 'If thou wishest to be with me, I wish to be with thee.
But for the sake of God, pitying your distress, I relinquish it to you.
But, although an expression here or there may be unguarded, he distinguishes very clearly between pitying and excusing these victims.
JAMES', I was not too proud to take some slight but pityinginterest in men of other colleges.
After all, they are also men; one cannot help pitying them.
Sophia Vasilievna was evidently pitying herself for having to make the effort of saying these words; and, to soothe her feelings, she raised to her lips a scented, smoking cigarette with her jewel- bedecked fingers.
Disease shall chase the phantoms of ambition, May penitence attend thy mournful bed, And wing thy latest pray'r to pitying heav'n!
There, when my thoughts, at interval of prayer, Descend to range these mansions of misfortune, Oft shall I dwell on our disastrous friendship, And shed the pitying tear for lost Irene.
A gen'rous foe regards, withpitying eye, The man whom fate has laid, where all must lie.
Hear now the words I bear; to thee I come A messenger from Jove, who from on high Looks down on thee with eyes of pitying love.
Hear now the words I bear: to thee I come A messenger from Jove, who from on high Looks down on thee with eyes of pitying love.
Thus foully did Achilles in his rage Misuse the mighty dead; the blessed Gods With pitying grief beheld the sight, and urg'd That Hermes should by stealth the corpse remove.
Not ignorant is he, nor void of sense, Nor disobedient to the Gods' behest But will with pitying eyes his suppliant view.
Thither ascended from the sea, he sat; And thence the Greeks, by Trojans overborne, Pitying he saw, and deeply wroth with Jove.
The son of Saturn pitying saw, and thus To Juno spoke, his sister and his wife: "Woe, woe!
Miss Groves was ravished with her conquest, and boasted of it so openly, that people who were acquainted with this gentleman's character, foreseeing her fate, could not help pitying her.
Among the acquaintances whom they found on board was an invalid lady, who could not bear the fresh air upon deck; and Mary, pitying her loneliness and seclusion, remained for awhile conversing with her in the cabin.
He spoke not a word, however, till his fair wife, pitying the anxieties she saw him under, desired him to think no more of this accident, since it was so happily got over.
All the partners of my guilty pleasures--all those who shared with me in my riots, are deaf to my complaints, and refuse a pitying ear to the distress they have in a great measure contributed to bring upon me.
No, aunt, only pitying him, for I am beginning to believe that he is suffering worse than we are.
There was a calm, grave, pitying look upon the housekeeper's countenance which literally staggered Chester, and he went out quickly and turned to the right, the butler closing the door with a bang.
It's dreadful, and I lay awake nearly all the night pitying you.
I cannot help pitying the poor whale that is thus persecuted for the sake of his spoils.
As he was very good-natured, he could not help pitying the unfortunate animals, and asking at the same time, what had happened to the ants that he used to see in the same place?
The caliph could not behold these objects of horror without pitying poor Abon Hassan, and being sorry for carrying the jest so far.
He laid the book on the table, and now looked at his companion, who was sitting opposite to him with the most heartfelt expression of pitying surprise.
These people have really been benefited; they have sanctified their holiday, and we ought to thank them for secretly pitying us, because they do not suspect we are doing so too, in our own way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
