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Example sentences for "thousand pities"

  • It's a thousand pities," said the Doctor, as he dropped his chin with an air of disappointment.

  • It is a thousand pities that Mr. Clay, in his compromise, neglected to make an exception against that article.

  • And yet it was a pity--a thousand pities.

  • It had been a thousand pities, he had thought, that Owen had been so poor as to make it necessary for them all to discourage that love affair with Clara.

  • Arrangements were to be made for an auction in the house as soon as she should be able to move; but would it not be a thousand pities to sell all the furniture if there was a prospect of the family returning?

  • It was a thousand pities that a bad word should ever have been spoken of Owen Fitzgerald; ten thousand pities that he should ever have given occasion for such bad word.

  • He's as lonely as a coot; it's a thousand pities he ever lost his wife.

  • It would be a thousand pities if his heart should open to that poor creature for the first time.

  • It was a pity, a thousand pities, the child could not have come to them without that smirch.

  • Well, a little more, or a little less, 'twas a thousand pities that it should have happened to she, of all others.

  • This is a thousand pities," he said gallantly, to two or three of the girls nearest him, as soon as there was a pause in the dance.

  • Twould be a thousand pities if he were to tole her away again.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after years; average speed; moving bodies; other days; profound impression; thousand acres; thousand crowns; thousand deaths; thousand dinars; thousand diners; thousand feet above the; thousand fragments; thousand generations; thousand guilders; thousand marks; thousand men; thousand pardons; thousand pistoles; thousand pound; thousand pounds; thousand times; thousand ways; thousand worlds; thousand yards; thousands upon; will please